Why Lindsay Clancy's Trial Keeps People Awake At Night

There are two Lindsay Clancy trials happening at the same time. One is inside Plymouth Superior Court, where the prosecution and defense agree she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan and are fighting over whether postpartum psychosis made her not criminally responsible. The other is on TikTok, where creators have decided Patrick Clancy is the real killer.

The second trial has no rules of evidence, no cross-examination, and no judge. It has millions of viewers, and the people inside it describe physical symptoms — shaking, insomnia, rage that keeps them posting at two in the morning about a family they have never met.

Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for the first of three conversations about what's happening to the people watching this case. She explains why the brain can't accept a story without a clear villain, why more evidence makes conspiracy believers dig deeper instead of backing off, and why the physical stress response people describe in the comment sections is real. This isn't performance. Their bodies are responding to the trial as if the threat is in their living room.

Shavaun has spent three decades studying threat response and belief formation. Every mechanism she identifies in the Clancy audience maps to patterns she's seen in clinical work with cult survivors, political extremists, and people processing acute trauma.

Tony Brueski and psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, author of Nightbird, discuss why the Lindsay Clancy trial is doing something to the people watching it.

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