Modern Relationships and Lindsey Clancy Case. 3 Children Strangled. Overwhelming Support From Females and Male Backlash.
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5 Infamous Cases Of Men Who Murdered Their Families
1 The Haight family (January 2023, Enoch, Utah)
Michael Haight, 42, fatally shot his wife, 40-year-old Tausha Haight; her 78-year-old mother, Gail Earl; and the couple’s five children — 4-year-old Gavin, 7-year-old twins Sienna and Ammon, 12-year-old Brilee, and 17-year-old Macie — before killing himself on Jan. 4. Just two weeks earlier, on Dec. 19, 2022, a caseworker from the Utah Division of Child and Family Services had visited the Haight home as part of a newly opened investigation into allegations of child abuse by Michael Haight, according to records obtained by the Deseret News, and Tausha filed for divorce on Dec. 21. According to the caseworker, Tausha said that Michael had previously “threatened to commit suicide or ‘make her life hell’ if she left him.”
2 The Watts family (August 2018, Frederick, Colorado)
Chris Watts, then 33, strangled his wife, 34-year-old Shanann Watts, and then used the same blue blanket to smother their two daughters, 3-year-old Celeste and 4-year-old Bella. He dumped the girls’ bodies in oil barrels in a facility where he worked and buried their mother in a shallow grave nearby. After first claiming that Shannan and the girls had disappeared, Watts then said he had strangled her after seeing her kill their daughters. Watts eventually confessed to murdering his whole family, telling police he had been having an affair with a coworker and told Shannan he didn’t love her anymore. She responded by saying, “You’re never gonna see the kids again,” and he said he "snapped” and strangled her. Watts pleaded guilty to murder in November 2018 in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty and was sentenced to three consecutive terms of life in prison.
Chris Watts, then 33, strangled his wife, 34-year-old Shanann Watts, and then used the same blue blanket to smother their two daughters, 3-year-old Celeste and 4-year-old Bella. He dumped the girls’ bodies in oil barrels in a facility where he worked and buried their mother in a shallow grave nearby. After first claiming that Shannan and the girls had disappeared, Watts then said he had strangled her after seeing her kill their daughters. Watts eventually confessed to murdering his whole family, telling police he had been having an affair with a coworker and told Shannan he didn’t love her anymore. She responded by saying, “You’re never gonna see the kids again,” and he said he "snapped” and strangled her. Watts pleaded guilty to murder in November 2018 in a deal with prosecutors to avoid the death penalty and was sentenced to three consecutive terms of life in prison.
No. Why fear stating what you mean to say?
You should learn what marriage is according to God.
We're talking about the marriage .
You don't know what is being discussed but, it's false.
Mysoginy. Now your hatred for her makes sense.
He's Catholic.
And a poor example of husband and father.
You don't understand what marriage is. Which is why you think his leaving to run an errand isn't an example of his irresponsibility in the marriage itself.
3 The List family (November 1971, Westfield, New Jersey)
John List and his wife, Helen, were both 46 when he fatally shot her; his 84-year-old mother, Alma; his 16-year-old daughter, Patricia; his 15-year-old son, John; and his 13-year-old son, Frederick. The family lived in a mansion just 16 miles west of Manhattan, but List, an accountant, had been fired from a series of jobs and the bank was about to foreclose on the home. In a confession letter he left for his minister, List, a devout Lutheran, said that the potential for his children to be on welfare “was just more than I thought they could and should endure.”
List was methodical, even taking a lunch break between the killings. He lined up the bodies of his victims on sleeping bags on the floor of his home’s ballroom (except for his mother — he noted in a chilling postscript in his confession that “she was too heavy to move”), turned down the thermostat to 50 degrees, fled across the country, and lived under an assumed identity for nearly two decades. He was famously captured after a May 1989 episode of America’s Most Wanted covered the case, displaying an uncannily accurate forensic sculptor’s impression of how he would have aged. He died in prison in 2008 at the age of 82.
(For more about the case, including heartbreaking interviews with the victims’ friends and neighbors, check out NJ.com’s gripping nine-part podcast about the case, Father Wants Us Dead.)
John List and his wife, Helen, were both 46 when he fatally shot her; his 84-year-old mother, Alma; his 16-year-old daughter, Patricia; his 15-year-old son, John; and his 13-year-old son, Frederick. The family lived in a mansion just 16 miles west of Manhattan, but List, an accountant, had been fired from a series of jobs and the bank was about to foreclose on the home. In a confession letter he left for his minister, List, a devout Lutheran, said that the potential for his children to be on welfare “was just more than I thought they could and should endure.”
List was methodical, even taking a lunch break between the killings. He lined up the bodies of his victims on sleeping bags on the floor of his home’s ballroom (except for his mother — he noted in a chilling postscript in his confession that “she was too heavy to move”), turned down the thermostat to 50 degrees, fled across the country, and lived under an assumed identity for nearly two decades. He was famously captured after a May 1989 episode of America’s Most Wanted covered the case, displaying an uncannily accurate forensic sculptor’s impression of how he would have aged. He died in prison in 2008 at the age of 82.
(For more about the case, including heartbreaking interviews with the victims’ friends and neighbors, check out NJ.com’s gripping nine-part podcast about the case, Father Wants Us Dead.)
4 The Todt family (December 2019, Celebration, Florida)
Anthony Todt was called a “destroyer of worlds” by the judge who gave him four life sentences for murdering his 42-year-old wife, Megan; their 4-year-old daughter, Zoe; and their two sons Alek, 13, and Tyler, 11, in their Disney vacation home. (He was also found guilty on one count of animal cruelty for killing the family dog, Breezy.) Police found the badly decomposing bodies of the family when they were serving a federal arrest warrant for Todt, who was being charged with healthcare fraud related to his struggling Connecticut physical therapy business. Before his arrest on Jan. 13, 2020 — weeks after killing his family — Todt had apparently been living at home with the corpses.
Todt told differing accounts of the killings, originally confessing to smothering and stabbing them but later shifting the blame to his wife. Todt had told police that he intended to kill himself too, saying, “everybody needed to die in order to pass over to the other side together because the apocalypse is coming.”
Anthony Todt was called a “destroyer of worlds” by the judge who gave him four life sentences for murdering his 42-year-old wife, Megan; their 4-year-old daughter, Zoe; and their two sons Alek, 13, and Tyler, 11, in their Disney vacation home. (He was also found guilty on one count of animal cruelty for killing the family dog, Breezy.) Police found the badly decomposing bodies of the family when they were serving a federal arrest warrant for Todt, who was being charged with healthcare fraud related to his struggling Connecticut physical therapy business. Before his arrest on Jan. 13, 2020 — weeks after killing his family — Todt had apparently been living at home with the corpses.
Todt told differing accounts of the killings, originally confessing to smothering and stabbing them but later shifting the blame to his wife. Todt had told police that he intended to kill himself too, saying, “everybody needed to die in order to pass over to the other side together because the apocalypse is coming.”
5 The Longo family (December 2001, Newport, Oregon)
Christian Longo was sentenced to death (later commuted) for killing his wife, MaryJane, 34, and three young children — Zachary, 4, Sadie Ann, 3, and Madison, 2 — and then dumping their bodies along the Oregon coast. Longo, then 27, fled to Mexico, where he was arrested a month later. Like other family annihilators, Longo was mired in debt, struggling to maintain an extravagant lifestyle without the means — besides credit card debt and stealing — to support his spending. Like Watts and Todt, Longo implicated his wife in the murders, claiming she drowned two of their children and tried to smother Madison; enraged, he strangled her and then killed Madison because he “thought of her as dead at that point.”
Longo’s story became an ouroboros: When in Mexico, he pretended to be Michael Finkel, a disgraced journalist who had fabricated much of a feature story for the New York Times Magazine. Finkel later worked with Longo to write a book about his life, True Story, which was made into a forgettable film starring James Franco as Longo.
Christian Longo was sentenced to death (later commuted) for killing his wife, MaryJane, 34, and three young children — Zachary, 4, Sadie Ann, 3, and Madison, 2 — and then dumping their bodies along the Oregon coast. Longo, then 27, fled to Mexico, where he was arrested a month later. Like other family annihilators, Longo was mired in debt, struggling to maintain an extravagant lifestyle without the means — besides credit card debt and stealing — to support his spending. Like Watts and Todt, Longo implicated his wife in the murders, claiming she drowned two of their children and tried to smother Madison; enraged, he strangled her and then killed Madison because he “thought of her as dead at that point.”
Longo’s story became an ouroboros: When in Mexico, he pretended to be Michael Finkel, a disgraced journalist who had fabricated much of a feature story for the New York Times Magazine. Finkel later worked with Longo to write a book about his life, True Story, which was made into a forgettable film starring James Franco as Longo.
I haven't seen @Lightbeamrider speaking out about all of these cases. Weird.
"Silence is consent and so is ignorance", I guess.
An honest conversation would look at the terrible crime of killing your own children without the apparent agenda of trying to make it seem women are rooting for Clancy when there is no proof of that. History concedes that men are the main perpretators of violence both in the home and outside the home. Since this is a Christian forum, I will make mention of the fact that men are told to love their wives in the NT and the OT laws reveal an attitude towards women from men, that God never declared as being 'good'.
I maintain that this particular thread exemplifies a prejudice towards women that is hostile. The thread remains, at best in my opinion, click bait.
Their focus is on the fault of women,wives.
Patrick Clancy worked from home. He knew she was struggling with postpartum. And yet,they kept having kids.
He divorced Lindsay immediately after she was put in the hospital and charged. They're Catholic,so that is curious when we consider,he's now already remarried to a Doctor.
Yeah, that's what stood out to me [by the OP] which is why I wanted to address it. Jumping to the conclusion that a majority of us are baby/child killer supporters speaks volumes.
Just can't bring yourself to admit you were wrong. He divorced her later and remarried. He was still married to her when she killed off the three children. He went out on an errand; he did not abandon her, and it was not his fault. Blaming the husband only reflects your poor judgment.
You don't care about proof, and apparently you don't know how to investigate.
Not if abortion and women's rule are included.
Who cares. I maintain you do not know how to make a rationed argument without vilyfying etc. Ad hominem and logical fallacies. Who cares about your approval?
Opinion. yawn.
When I am,I do. You aren't paying attention to what is being said.
He divorced her immediately after.
First,I praise God you are not on this jury. And I pray you are not ever allowed on any jury where a woman is the defendant.
Secondly,you are entrenched in your thoughts about the husband.
You are hostile toward marriage,as you demonstrated in a prior reply.
You pardon the husband in this case while you ignore the fact three babies were killed. Which means,their mother was suffering post partum for years before a spouse who worked from home!
You clearly hold animus for women. That's Mysoginy.
Your comment about marriage to a woman earlier makes me think of a guy who cut my sisters hair once.
He was gay. He worked at Haircuttery and made no effort to hide the fact he hated women.
Me being me,witnessing his behavior while we waited for a stylist to be free so to take her appointment, stepped to him once he was done and she had paid. No tip.
I didn't care who heard me, I just spoke in a normal tone of voice.
So,tell us,why is it you so very obviously hate women?
Without missing a beat,as he prepared his next customer for her haircut,he looked at me and said, because if it wasn't for you B's we'd,meaning gay men, would have more D to choose from.
I smiled and walked away.
His potential client right behind me,though he had to chase her down to get the smock back.
Haircuttery stylists are independent contractors. No fear of his being fired,which is probably why he was so blunt and vulgar.
But word of mouth was sure to spread.
Our sister/brother is right. You created this thread as click bait. And as a platform to openly hate women.
Now the Foghorn Leghorn Rooster profile pic makes sense.
Your mother is in my prayers.
God protect us.
Filicide overwhelmingly linked to male perpetrators who 'deeply believe their actions are justified', experts say
Above is the reality. Men are the major perpetrators of violence. This thread is an example of how some little boys in adult bodies think about women.
This forum provides a platform for bullies on occasion and there is no hope of any actual dialogue. I don't think he's noticed that he has been basically telling us all how he really feels about women. Just more fodder for the ignore button.