Hundreds Rallied for Her in Pink. A Priest Told Men to Run From Her Supporters.

Outside a Massachusetts courthouse, hundreds of women in pink formed heart shapes with their hands. Inside a Tennessee church a few weeks later, a priest told his congregation that any man dating one of those women should "cut bait and run for your life." Both moments trace back to the same case.

On September 4, 2026, a judge declared a mistrial in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother charged with killing her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan — at the family's home in January 2023. After five weeks of testimony and roughly 38 hours of deliberation over seven days, the jury deadlocked 11-1. Clancy's attorneys said the holdout juror had, in their words, a "bias against those who suffer from debilitating mental illness" — a reference to the defense's central argument that Clancy was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis when the killings happened.

Clancy's case has drawn an unusually large public support movement. On August 20, hundreds of women rallied outside the Plymouth County courthouse, many wearing pink, some with shirts reading "Stand in Peace for Lindsay." A Facebook group called "We Are Lindsay Clancy" has grown to thousands of members, and a GoFundMe organized by Clancy's parents has raised close to $900,000 of a $2 million goal from more than 27,000 donors. Online, a TikTok trend built around the phrase "Same, Lindsay" has shown mothers crying while holding their own children, framing Clancy as a symbol of how severe and dangerous untreated postpartum mental illness can become.

That wave of public sympathy has also produced a backlash — most visibly from Father Dan Reehil, pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Church in Columbia, Tennessee, and an exorcist for the Diocese of Nashville. In a homily delivered September 6, Reehil directly addressed the rallies and viral videos: "There is no universe that exists where a man would kill three of his children and be going to the courthouse, and hundreds of men would show up to rally behind him," he said. "But somehow there's women out there that think this is a good thing."

Reehil didn't stop at criticizing the support movement. "If you're dating a woman right now who is a supporter of this woman who killed her children, cut bait and run for your life," he told his congregation, "because one day you'll be having kids with her, and she thinks this is OK." He added that he believed Clancy needed prayer, saying, "I think she has demons, to be honest."

The gap between the two reactions is stark. Clancy's supporters describe her as a devoted mother failed by an overmedicated, under-monitored mental health crisis — a warning about how postpartum psychosis can go undetected until catastrophe. Reehil and others responding to him describe the sympathy itself as the alarming part, arguing that the deaths of three children shouldn't produce rallies and fundraisers regardless of the circumstances.

Prosecutors have not yet said whether they'll seek a second trial. Three jurors have since spoken publicly, saying the panel was leaning toward finding Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility before the deadlock. Clancy remains in custody as prosecutors decide how to proceed, while the public reaction — from the pink rallies to the pulpit — shows no sign of quieting down.