Lindsay Clancy and the Dark Side of True Crime Culture (8/21/26)

The ugliest part of what has happened around the Lindsay Clancy case is how quickly three dead children have been pushed into the background while strangers online make the story about themselves. Some of the same wine-aunt, conspiracy-soaked energy that surrounded the Karen Read case has migrated over here, complete with slogans like “Same Lindsay,” amateur psychiatric analysis, and disgusting speculation about Patrick Clancy based on nothing more than vibes, facial expressions, and the need to invent another villain. Meanwhile, Cora, Dawson, and Callan keep getting reduced to footnotes in a story that should begin and end with them. They were the victims. They were the ones who lost everything. They were the ones who should have had birthdays, first days of school, scraped knees, teenage years, graduations, families, and entire lives ahead of them, and instead their deaths have become fuel for another online fandom that seems more interested in picking teams than confronting what actually happened.I never even wanted to talk about this case, and I had no intention of making it part of what we do, but some of the behavior has become so grotesque and so far beyond the line that staying quiet started to feel like pretending not to see it. This has never been about entertainment for me. I do not sell merch, I do not do livestreams, I do not chase collaborations, and I do not care whether people like me at the end of an episode. The point has always been to get as close to the truth as the evidence allows, to demand accountability where it is deserved, and to keep the victims from being swallowed by the noise. And that is really where this entire conversation lands: when the hashtags are gone, the creators have moved on, and the crowd has found another tragedy to obsess over, Cora, Dawson, and Callan will still be dead. The question for everyone who turned this into content is whether, when they look back, they are going to be proud of the person they became while three children were lying at the center of the story.to contact me:[email protected]