Lindsay Clancy is not Karen Read, the sequel.
Granted, there are similarities between the two murder cases, like the mobs milling outside the courthouse in neighboring counties awaiting a verdict.
But among all the differences between Lindsay and Karen, one is particularly significant contrast.
Karen Read was innocent. She didn’t murder her boyfriend, period.
Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children. She admitted it.
Huge difference, don’t you think.
Another big difference: the cops tried to frame Karen Read. Nobody framed Lindsay Clancy. She did it. The evidence is overwhelming, beyond a reasonable doubt, even if she hadn’t admitted it.
In the Lindsay Clancy case, there is no mysterious one-armed man, a la “The Fugitive.”
No matter what antidepressant-fueled rants by post-menopausal women that you may read on TikTok, Lindsay’s husband didn’t do it. He’s recorded on surveillance cameras outside the home at the time Lindsay was committing her unspeakable crimes.
Patrick Clancy couldn’t have done it – just like Karen Read couldn’t have done it.
Another difference: the crowds outside the courthouse in Plymouth are overwhelmingly female, except for a few male losers holding up hand-lettered signs saying, “Repeal the 19th Amendment” – the one that gave women the right to vote.
Contrast this crowd with the ones at the Karen Read trials, plural, since they went so far as to re-try her after her first acquittal – that was how desperately the cops wanted to railroad her.
That kind of obvious injustice cut across gender lines because most men could envision themselves being framed as easily as women could.
Not many men are clamoring for the system to let Lindsay go. They may feel at least a little sorry for her but….
As everyone knows by now, the Clancy jury includes nine women and three men. It seems obvious that most, if not all the jurors are dug in, refusing to budge.
After the inevitable mistrial is declared, we will most likely learn that it was mostly the women who were holding out for a lesser sentence, if not a complete acquittal.
Certainly, on line there are more men demanding a guilty verdict than women, although it’s far from unanimous. On the let-her-go side, it’s almost all women, with very few exceptions.
Thus, the “Repeal the 19th Amendment!” signs by all those unemployed male provocateurs.
Did they have these kinds of unhinged women roaming around outside the Massachusetts trials of Lizzie Borden or Sacco and Vanzetti? Probably not. Back then, people in Massachusetts had to work for a living. Now, not so much.
In the afternoons, stay-at-homes used to watch soap operas on TV. Unlike today’s true-crime junkies, all the women watching “General Hospital” way back when had children of their own.
Now, again, not so much. And the women back in the day most assuredly didn’t think they could run General Hospital better than the actors on TV in white coats with stethoscopes around their necks.
Even then the women had mother’s little helpers, to be sure, but not in the volume that they were being prescribed to Lindsay Clancy.
Another difference: Judge William Sullivan appears to be on the level. He doesn’t hate Kevin Reddington or Lindsay. In the Read case, on the other hand, you had Judge “Auntie Bev” Cannone. Need I say more?
Another difference between the two trials: the attempted lynching of Karen Read destroyed the political career of the lifelong Democrat hack DA in Norfolk County, Michael “Meatball” Morrissey.
On Tuesday, his handpicked successor, who gave Meatball $2500 in contributions over the years, finished a dismal third in the Democrat primary. Despite the unspoken nod from Meatball, Greg Connor could only manage 15 percent of the vote.
The Lindsay Clancy case probably isn’t going to be the end of Plymouth County DA Tim Cruz’s career. After all, to repeat, she did confess. What was Cruz supposed to do, pat Lindsay on the head and send her home?
Whatever Cruz did – indict her or not, and on whatever charges – some people were always going to hate him. These days, some people – Democrats mostly, especially if they live on-line – are always angry. Especially with a Republican like Cruz.
Democrats aren’t happy unless they’re not happy, not to mention you’re not happy.
By the way, what if Cruz had cut her loose? One name from the past that’s been pretty much missing during this whole trial is Constance Fisher, a Maine housewife.
In 1954, she drowned her three children in the bathtub. She was “hospitalized” for a few years, then let out at the behest of her husband. Mrs. Fisher had three more kids by him, but in 1966, guess what she did.
She drowned her three new babies.
Of course Lindsay Clancy is in a wheelchair, unlikely to ever bear more children. But doesn’t the Constance Fisher precedent indicate a problem with just… letting her go?
The only headache with letting Karen Read go was that the hacks knew she was going to do exactly what she has now done – start suing all the corrupt institutions that tried to put her in prison for life for a crime that she could not have physically committed.
Meanwhile, the mob will be out again this morning outside the courthouse in Plymouth, and for what reason?
I think they’d be better off home baking cookies for the long weekend and still watching General Hospital.