This episode includes discussion of child death, suicide, postpartum mental illness, criminal charges, and psychiatric crisis. Please take care of yourself while listening.
In the first episode of Motherhood on Trial, Autumn Cross and Beth Justice begin with the Lindsay Clancy case and the question at the center of the series: what happens when a medical crisis becomes a criminal case?
This episode examines postpartum psychosis, intrusive thoughts, legal insanity, criminal responsibility, Patrick Clancy’s public grief, the lives of Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy, and the prevention questions that remain.