I know this is going to piss some people off but so be it.
I understand postpartum psychosis is real. I understand how devastating mental illness can be.
But three children are dead.
Lindsay Clancy didn’t pull a trigger in a split second. She strangled her children.
One.
Then another.
Then another.
Three children. Three separate acts.
And that’s where you lose me.
You will NEVER convince me that during all of that, not once, did she understand what she was doing.
Mental illness can explain horrific behavior. It does not automatically erase responsibility for it.
Three children were killed by the person they trusted more than anyone in this world.
They deserve to be more than a fcking footnote in a conversation about their mother’s mental health.
Scott Michael Johnson was a 26 year old securities analyst working on the 89th floor of the South Tower on September 11, 2001.
An avid traveller, his remains (in the form of a bone fragment) weren't identified until 2018 through newer DNA techniques. He was the 1642th victim identified from the World Trade Center site; roughly 40% of victims remain unidentified due to the devastation of the attacks.
Scott Michael Johnson was from New Jersey and was an employee of Keefe, Bruyette and Woods.
Never Forget.
I covered the murderous Jihadist attacks on 9/11 for Fox and thought I'd seen all the video from that day. But I never saw this one, which shows the second tower hit at the end. That's the moment we all realized it was a terrorist attack. And our world changed.