{
  "id": 3986375,
  "title": "Online Sleuthing Is Out of Control, and the Vitriol Against Patrick Clancy Proves It",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/online-sleuthing-is-out-of-control-and-the-vitriol-against-patrick",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-28T15:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/patrick-clancy-didnt-do-it-why-does-the-internet-think-hes-guilty-1236838968/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The trial of Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse who admitted to strangling her three young children before attempting suicide in January 2023, has become the latest true crime sensation largely due to social media. Amateur sleuths, armchair lawyers and influencers have turned the soon-to-conclude trial into snackable, whodunit content, dissecting every detail […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}