Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts nurse, is on trial for the deaths of her three young children, with her defence arguing she was not criminally responsible due to severe postpartum psychosis and that healthcare providers repeatedly failed to act on her warnings. While much coverage has focused on how the tragedy might have been prevented, a large TikTok community has instead turned its attention to her husband, Patrick Clancy, with many convinced—despite no supporting evidence—that he committed the killings and framed his wife.

Testimony has shown Patrick was sometimes absent during his wife's crisis, including going to brunch and taking a ski trip while she struggled with suicidal thoughts, and that he dismissed her disclosure a month before the killings that she had thoughts of harming the children. Experts such as forensic psychologist Leslie Dobson caution against vilifying him, calling the murder theory "very extreme," but commentators suggest the backlash stems from women recognising familiar patterns of neglect during postpartum struggles, drawing comparisons to the 2001 case of Andrea Yates and her husband Rusty.