A shocking 1954 case is in focus amid the Lindsay Clancy trial, with Netizens discussing it on social media. Constance Fisher, who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, killed three of her children in Maine in 1954.
She spent several years in a mental institution before being released. An X post about Fisher has gone viral amid the Clancy trial, with many weighing in on it. “Mental illness can explain how a person reaches that point. It does not grant a free pass for murder. It does not entitle anyone to more children.
After her release, she went on to kill three more of her children in 1966.
And it does not obligate the rest of society to wait and see whether the next set of children dies too,” the post said.
The Constance Fisher case
She was committed to Augusta State Hospital again but with a condition: she would never be released again. In the town of Waterville, Maine, on March 8, 1954, Carl Fisher returned from his job to find his three children—Richard (6), Daniel (4), and Deborah (11 months)—dead. Constance, his 25-year-old wife, had drowned them in the bathtub one by one. Between 1960 and 1965, the couple had three new children – Kathleen, Michael, and Natalie. On June 30, 1966, twelve years after the first episode, Carl once again returned from work to find his three new children drowned in a bathtub. Chillingly, the children were the exact same ages as the first victims: 6 years, 4 years, and 9 months old.
She survived, and the court again found her not guilty by reason of insanity.
In a note, she claimed that “God had ordered her” to do it to take the children to heaven.
