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Threads Takes: The Dating Coach and the 'Patrick Did It' Theory
from Lindsay Clancy, Darline Graham, & The American Woman | The Tim Dillon Show #510 · #510
8 min
He reads two Threads posts about the Clancy case — a dating coach hoping Lindsay finds love and starts a new family, and a user who took one abnormal psych class and concludes the husband is the real killer — treating both as profound insight.
- Tim explains his sympathies in the case are primarily with the mother.
- People assume he's not emotional because he doesn't cry publicly like other commentators do.
- A dating coach on Threads posts a hopeful vision for Lindsay Clancy: acquittal, medication, peace, and the chance to build a family.
- Tim pitches a TLC show called "Second Chances" following Lindsay Clancy's recovery.
- The case has become a rallying cry, but Tim finds it disturbing that some people, including the female prosecutor, still want to blame the mother.
- Women showing up in pink to support Lindsay represents something positive in a world where women are forced to compete with each other.
- Another Threads user proposes the "Patrick Did It" theory: the husband attempted to murder Lindsay first, then killed the children as witnesses.
- The theory-poster cites credentials from an abnormal psychology group project on mothers who kill their children, pivoting to argue Patrick was the killer.
- Tim notes the defense attorney and Lindsay herself haven't pursued the theory that the father did it, yet he treats the Threads analysis as credible.
- Tim anticipates criticism that he's being sarcastic and rejects the notion that people understand his approach.
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