The conspiracy delirium on social networks about the Lindsay Clancy case

The same people who know what happened in the Andic case are the ones who resolved, before the verdict, the crime committed by the Urban Police. It is not unusual that with the great media trials the Agatha Christie of the Temu that we all have inside comes out, but on the networks the great dramatic events have spread to crazy limits. It no longer matters whether a defendant admits her crime if the Internet concludes anything else. This is what is happening with the case of Lindsay Clancy, the obstetric nurse who strangled her three children in 2023 while her husband was running errands, tried to commit suicide after killing them and has been left in a wheelchair for life.

It matters little that the woman recognized the facts in the trial that took place in Massachusetts. As the trial has been televised live on several platforms, an army of aspiring detectives turned content creators has chopped up the narrative of the lawsuit and dissected every detail to expose their own theories on TikTok. One that has stood out by far is the one that rules that Clancy never strangled her children, but rather that the entire case should be reviewed because the triple murder was committed by Patrick, her husband. In court, no one has questioned the role of the children's father, but what does it matter if the Internet thinks just the opposite.

A video with more than 200,000 likes maintains that it was Patrick because comparing a blurry image from a security camera from the store he went to with another from a bus stop while the crime was being committed shows what looks like changed shoes. Other videos with millions of views suggest that he never left his house because his best friend looks a lot like him and could have impersonated him. There are those who attribute the triple murder to the husband because he has remarried. Or those who, directly, as Lisa Rinna, an actress and Hollywood celebrity, has shared with her million followers, state: “Patrick did it because they told me that women don't strangle.”

The joys and disappointments with network detectives have already been narrated in documentaries such as Don't even touch the cats: a murderer on the internet or Disappearance at the Cecil Hotel. With Clancy's televised trial, the genre has reached a new era and a point of no return. Here the delirium has been collectivized for reasons as dubious as they are self-interested. At this point in the attention economy, many scammers are looking for a few euros knowing that the theory that attracts the most is not the simplest, but rather the most delusional and conspiratorial. And nothing better than winning over women who disbelieve the system with conspiracies that will prove them right.