Stein Erupts Over $800K Raised for Mother Who Killed Her 3 Kids

The defense's theory centers on a mix of prescription drugs: she was over-medicated on a cocktail of medications while at the same time under-medicated and not getting proper care from the various doctors she was seeing.

The family's circumstances — a husband who worked from home and made over $300,000 a year — meant Clancy had access to the top psychiatrist and healthcare anyone in America could imagine, according to Stein.

Clancy wrote in her journal about suicidal thoughts and thoughts of harming her family while she was seeing a psychiatrist. Stein called it a "dark fantasy" she was open about, one she shared with her mom, her doctors and her husband.

Despite all of that prior knowledge, she still committed one of the most heinous crimes in modern American history, Stein argued. The method: she murdered her three children using an exercise band, strangling all three.

The GoFundMe total Stein cited tops $800,000, and in his telling the donors include conspiracy theorists accusing her husband of doing it. Supporters frame the case as postpartum depression, saying Clancy was just mentally unwell and deserves to get off on insanity.

Stein called the donors "some sick people" and contrasted the fundraising with accountability. According to Stein, thousands and thousands of women are supporting the case financially.

His conclusion was blunt: nobody would do that, and if they did, they deserve to be locked up probably with the pedophile.

That explanation, in Stein's assessment, is ridiculous.

A clip shows Lindsay's sister being questioned about whether Lindsay told her about the suicidal thoughts and depression, whether she was seeing doctors, and what effect the medication had. The first thing Lindsay mentioned about the doctors came back in October, the sister recounted, when she saw a doctor for Zoloft and had a very awful reaction to that Zoloft.

Asked whether that doctor was Dr. Toffs, the sister replied that she did not believe Lindsay shared that specific with her. Over the couple of months from October to December, Lindsay was getting different prescriptions and they were trying different treatments, according to the sister.

Stein prefaced the segment twice, saying he is not a doctor and this is not medical advice. SSRIs — serotonin uptake inhibitors — and antidepressants carry serious side effects, one of which is increased suicidal idealization, he claimed, describing people who dream of suicide and, in his telling, find that thinking about killing themselves somehow helps with their anxiety. No pill, in his words, is going to cure your depression.

He addressed the audience by name — the wine moms watching the show, the older white women who watch the show — and urged them not to stop taking their medication. But a general practitioner prescribing them like Tic Tacs, he said, does not mean there are no side effects. On this case, his conclusion was that the side effects definitely outweighed the benefits.

A clip shows Lindsay's mom testifying about Lindsay having the thoughts and being open about them. She recalled Lindsay being very nervous and saying, "I just have to tell you guys something."

Asked what Lindsay told them, the mother's answer was direct: she told us that she had thought of harming the children.

Stein said he repeats every show that reality is stranger than fiction, and asked viewers to imagine birthing three children and dreaming all day long about harming them. Lindsay, in his telling, forewarned everybody and still did it.

He listed the signs people saw — suicidal ideation, symptoms, all the red flags — and said you would think somebody would have been able to stop Lindsay with all the knowledge they had. Nobody could. Then he teed up a clip of one of Lindsay's coworkers.

The coworker describes a patient who arrived on the unit with plans to harm herself while pregnant. Lindsay was on staff when that patient arrived, and the coworker says Lindsay was brand new — it was the summer she had just started.

They had a conversation about mental health in pregnancy and postpartum. The coworker asked Lindsay if she had heard of the Andrea Yates case; she had not. The coworker explained the Yates case, and Lindsay cried. Her response in the clip: "How could a mother hurt her children?"

Stein allowed that not all women struggle with this, but said some are depressed because they have to put their wants aside, and because they are so selfish, the anxiety and stress of doing that makes them depressed. He called it a very fair statement.

A clip features a TikToker calling the Lindsay Clancy trial one of the most significant trials of your lifetime, and saying we are all experiencing something completely unprecedented. She noted mothers and women rallying behind someone who confessed to killing her three children, and said it is not because we cannot hold women accountable — many of us see ourselves in Lindsay.

Her claim went further: many could have been one step away from doing those horrific things because of significant mental health issues after a child was born, and many know how dark those thoughts get. Stein's reaction to the clip was that it was absurd for women to see themselves in Lindsay.

Stein said he almost thought the TikToker was trolling. His response to the empathy argument was that a mother who empathizes with a mother who brutally strangled three young children has some serious soul searching to do, and that there is no excuse for murder — none whatsoever. He allowed only self-defense in a serious situation as a possible exception, and said even worst-case depression is no excuse for a mom to murder her babies.

He cited women with reproductive issues who cannot have babies and would trade places with a biological mom. He claimed lesbians have the highest rate of divorce of any couples, which he offered as evidence that other women hate other women.

He also linked women celebrating abortions on TikTok to Massachusetts passing a law allowing abortion up until birth.

He said he never claims to be a role model, but would never support someone who murdered her three young children, no matter how depressed. Then he teased a voicemail segment after the commercial break.