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Everyone closest to this tragedy agrees on the basic facts. Patrick Clancy said it himself when he found the children. Her own lawyers concede she did it. Her mother and friends do not deny it. The only people treating this like a riddle are the twelve jurors now sitting in that room.Lindsay Clancy admits she strangled her three young children while her husband was sent out of the house. Mental illness is a serious condition that deserves treatment and compassion. It does not erase the duty to protect the innocent or the requirement that someone who takes three lives be held to account.A jury that cannot decide after days of deliberation on an admitted killing of children reveals how far the system has drifted from simple justice. Those three little ones are gone. That should never have been a close question.