Kristina Rex

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48 Hours · The Lindsay Clancy Case: A Family Tragedy on Trial · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

So they don't necessarily provide a legal benchmark for this case.

The case that comes to mind for me is the 2001 case of Andrea Yates.

She drowned her five children in a bathtub at the family home in Texas.

And she said at the time that Satan ordered her to kill her children to save them from eternal damnation.

She'd been hospitalized with postpartum depression shortly before those killings.

Now, initially, a jury did convict her of capital murder, but they rejected the death sentence in that case.

But that verdict was later overturned and a second jury found Yates not guilty by reason of insanity.

So today, Yates remains at a mental health facility and she's repeatedly declined to seek release, meaning she chooses to remain under that psychiatric care.

It's right.

She was convicted of murder and the jury sentenced her to life in prison.

But again, not the death penalty in that case.

You know, interestingly, Philip Resnick, so he's a national expert on filicide.

He was retained by Lindsay Clancy's legal team.

He evaluated her mental health.

And in that New Yorker article we talked about, he suggested that women who are accused of killing their children may actually benefit from society's assumptions about a mother's unconditional love.

So Resnick argued that many people believe a mother must be insane to kill her child because no sane mother would ever do that.

Yeah, I mean, absolutely.

Researchers actually say social norms and expectations around motherhood, that can leave women suffering with mental health conditions, feeling isolated or guilty.

And the stigma around mental illness can make it harder for them to ask for help.

Speaking from my own experience, having, again, just had a baby nine months ago, I was asked regularly about my own mental health, even at my daughter's appointments by the pediatrician.

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