After many days of deliberations, the jury is deadlocked in the Lindsay Clancy murder case. Here’s what you need to know about this case that the fake news isn’t telling you.
On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children—five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan—at the family’s home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
She then attempted suicide by cutting her wrists and neck and jumping from a second-story window. The injuries left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Lindsay said she heard an auditory hallucination ordering her to kill her children and then kill herself and felt an irresistible urge to comply.
She was charged with three counts of murder. She did not dispute that she killed her children. Her defense argued she had been suffering from postpartum psychosis, bipolar disorder and was severely over-medicated and should not be held criminally responsible. After the birth of her third child, Lindsay spent months seeking help from multiple healthcare providers and hospitals for symptoms including insomnia, intrusive thoughts, and suicidal ideation.
Prosecutors argued she was in control at the time of the killings and that her actions beforehand—including sending her husband out of the house on an errand—showed methodical planning.
Her criminal trial began July 20, 2026. After nearly six weeks of proceedings, jury deliberations started August 27, 2026. At the start of the fourth day of deliberations the jury told the court it could not reach a unanimous verdict. Judge William Sullivan instructed them to continue discussions.
Under Massachusetts law, the judge can encourage the jury to go back to the jury room, but not more than twice unless the jury consents to it. If the jury still cannot reach a unanimous verdict, the judge can declare a mistrial.
Both Lindsay and her former husband, Patrick Clancy, filed lawsuits against her former healthcare providers, alleging medical malpractice, over-medication and negligence led to the deaths of their children.
According to court testimony and reporting from the Patriot Ledger and Wikipedia, here is a detailed synopsis of what has transpired so far - which has been cross-checked with three different AI platforms for accuracy:
During the four months prior to the murders, court testimony and records revealed that she was given 30 total prescriptions for 13 different psychiatric medications including Zoloft, Ativan, Benadryl, Buspar, Ambien, Remeron, Klonopin, Trazadone, Prozac, Amitriptyline and Seroquel (an antipsychotic) - all of which were found in her system. Seroquel (quetiapine) was found at DOUBLE normal levels.
Family Background
Lindsay Marie Musgrove was born on August 11, 1990. She grew up in Wallingford, Connecticut, and studied at Quinnipiac University. She met her future husband, Patrick Clancy, in 2013 through her college roommate. They married on December 3, 2016, and later settled in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where Lindsay worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Their first child, Cora, was born on December 4, 2017; Lindsay then began working part-time. Their second child, Dawson, was born on September 30, 2019. Their youngest, Callan, was born on May 26, 2022.
After Callan’s birth Lindsay took 18 weeks of maternity leave; Patrick took 12 weeks of paternity leave before returning to his work-from-home technology job. The family hired a nanny who worked three days a week from September 2022 to early December 2022. Lindsay’s parents also visited frequently, staying for days at a time to help with childcare.
Events Preceding the Killings and Medication History
Lindsay reported postpartum anxiety after the births of her first two children. After the second child she briefly did talk therapy and took Zoloft. She said her symptoms returned and worsened after the third birth, especially toward the end of her maternity leave. Patrick testified that she planned to ask about resuming Zoloft to help with anxiety and returning to work.
In September 2022 she began seeing psychiatrist Jennifer Tufts. Tufts diagnosed generalized anxiety disorder, recommended talk therapy, and prescribed Zoloft. She also completed a form to extend Lindsay’s maternity leave. Lindsay discontinued Zoloft after reporting insomnia.
On October 21 Tufts prescribed Ativan. At a follow-up on October 26 Lindsay reported that Ativan reduced her anxiety but not her sleeplessness and said she was using Benadryl as a sleep aid. Tufts prescribed Buspar, but Lindsay was afraid to try a new medication and did not take it. Tufts warned that Ativan could be addictive and reduced the dosage on November 2.
According to Patrick, Lindsay’s condition worsened in November 2022. She lost her appetite, withdrew socially, and experienced episodes of intense fear. On November 8 she posted in a Facebook support group for postpartum depression and anxiety, saying that although Ativan had helped her feel normal again she was concerned about becoming addicted and asked for alternatives. On November 15 she sought treatment at an emergency room after reportedly going two days without sleep. A physician prescribed Trazodone, which Lindsay found ineffective.
On November 20 Lindsay’s mother-in-law (a nurse) contacted Julie Paul, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at her hospital’s perinatal clinic. Julie Paul called Lindsay later that day. On November 21, Julie Paul prescribed Prozac. On November 25 she added Ambien, Remeron, and Klonopin. When Paul left the hospital in December 2022, the case was transferred to nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta. Jollotta prescribed Seroquel (an antipsychotic) on November 29.
During the first week of December Lindsay told both Tufts and Jollotta that she believed Remeron was causing intrusive thoughts. In messages to Jollotta she described “horribly intrusive thoughts wanting it to be all over” and feeling “no emotion whatsoever.” Jollotta believed the symptoms were more consistent with postpartum depression than medication side effects.
Tufts testified that Lindsay was “feeling very hopeless” and “close to” suicidal ideation. Around the same time Lindsay reported hallucinations and contacted two suicide hotlines; neither intervened because she did not have a plan to harm herself. She also began seeing therapist Latiesha Dukes; after Lindsay reported intrusive suicidal thoughts, Dukes referred her for hospitalization at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island.
On December 6 Jollotta suggested Lindsay had bipolar disorder, increased her Seroquel dosage, and recommended hospitalization. On December 15 Lindsay visited an emergency room due to suicidal thoughts but declined inpatient treatment. Tufts prescribed Lamictal (a mood stabilizer) the following day. On December 20 Lindsay admitted herself to a day program for postpartum depression at Women & Infants.
The hospital quickly discharged her, believing her issues were “more likely related to overmedication and misdiagnosis” than postpartum depression, and advised her to discontinue Seroquel. Although the recommendation concerned Jollotta, she agreed to help Lindsay taper off the medication.
The Month Prior
On December 31, 2022, Lindsay returned to the emergency room because of persistent suicidal ideation. The next morning she voluntarily began inpatient treatment at McLean Hospital. McLean diagnosed her with “major depressive disorder, severe without psychotic features.” Psychiatrist Alia Goodheart testified that Lindsay was depressed and suffering significant sleep problems but did not display psychosis. Goodheart described her as future-oriented, invested in her children, and having substantial family support. Lindsay left McLean on January 5, 2023, with prescriptions for Ativan and Trazodone.
She met with Tufts on January 6; Tufts described her as “deteriorating” and began discussing medication changes. On January 16 Tufts prescribed Amitriptyline. In the month prior to the killings, Lindsay’s phone was used to search for information about her medications, bipolar disorder, hallucinations, and insomnia. Other searches included “Where is the carotid artery,” “How to slit your throat to die,” “Can you turn airbags off on Kia Sorento,” and “Can you treat a sociopath?”
January 24, 2023
Morning
According to Patrick Clancy, Lindsay told him that morning that she had slept “pretty well” and was feeling “good.” She had become preoccupied with their 5-year-old daughter Cora’s stomachache, concerned that it might be caused by a liver issue, and took Cora to a pediatrician appointment.
Afternoon
Lindsay built a snowman and did art projects with the children. Throughout the day she exchanged routine texts with Patrick, who was working from home.
Late Afternoon Timeline
4:02 p.m.: Lindsay searched her phone for “kids Miralax.”
Approximately 4:13 p.m.: She searched for a restaurant in Plymouth, Massachusetts (ThreeV), and used Apple Maps to check the drive time from their Duxbury home.
4:47 p.m.: She called a drugstore and spoke with a manager, who told her they did not have Miralax but had similar medications.
She texted Patrick asking if he wanted to order takeout from the Plymouth restaurant.
5:10 p.m.: She called the restaurant and placed the order.
5:15 p.m.: At Lindsay’s request, Patrick left the house to pick up the food and the medication for Cora. Shortly afterward she texted him “Pedia-Lax liquid stool softener.”
5:32 p.m.: Patrick stopped at a drugstore. Surveillance video showed him calling Lindsay about which medication to buy. She did not answer immediately but called him back about a minute later. Patrick later testified that she seemed busy during the short call.
5:54 p.m.: Patrick arrived at the restaurant.
He returned home shortly after 6:00 p.m. (around 6:09 p.m.).
The Killings and Suicide Attempt
While Patrick was gone, Lindsay strangled their three children—one by one—with exercise bands in the basement.
She then attempted suicide by cutting her wrists and neck and jumping from a second-story window. She sustained spinal cord injuries from the fall and remains paralyzed from the waist down.
In subsequent legal filings and interviews, Lindsay stated that she heard a male voice directing her to commit the acts. She claimed she woke up with suicidal thoughts. In the afternoon a voice began telling her to harm the children. After Patrick left, she said the voice became loud and demanding, repeatedly telling her: “This is your last chance. You have to kill the kids so you can kill yourself.” She described feeling an overwhelming, irresistible compulsion to comply and that a force took over her.
Discovery and Emergency Response
Patrick returned home around 6:09 p.m. The first thing he noticed was the silence. He did not see or hear Lindsay or the children. He called her phone; she did not answer. He went upstairs to the master bedroom, found the door locked, opened it, and discovered blood on the floor and an open window.
He ran outside and found Lindsay lying on the ground, injured and semi-conscious, with cuts to her wrists and neck. He called 911 at approximately 6:11 p.m. On the recorded call he asked her “What did you do?”
She replied that she had tried to kill herself and jumped out the window. He asked where the children were; she said “in the basement.”
While still on the phone with 911, Patrick entered the house and went to the basement. He found all three children unconscious and in medical distress, each with an exercise band still wrapped around their necks. Cora and Callan were on the floor of the basement den; Dawson was alone on the floor of Patrick’s home office. Patrick began screaming in agony. First responders arrived and attempted resuscitation.
Medical Outcomes
The children were taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital – Plymouth. Cora (age 5) and Dawson (age 3) were pronounced dead there. The youngest, Callan (8 months), arrived in cardiac arrest and was flown by medical helicopter to Boston Children’s Hospital, where he required a ventilator. He died three days later, on January 27, 2023.
Autopsies by the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that the cause of death for Cora and Dawson was asphyxia; for Callan it was complications of asphyxia.
Lindsay was taken to South Shore Hospital, where she was intubated, then transferred to Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In the early morning of January 25 she went into cardiac arrest and was revived after CPR and multiple blood transfusions. A physician assistant testified that he sutured cuts on both of her wrists; the cuts on her neck were superficial and did not require further intervention.
On January 26, while still intubated, she was interviewed by forensic psychiatrist Jhilam Biswas. Unable to speak, she communicated by writing and asked where her family was.
Lindsay Clancy suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury when she jumped roughly 20 feet from a second-story window. When she awoke, her legs were completely paralyzed; she could not move or feel them.
A week later, a hospital chaplain, Sheila Cavanaugh from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, testified that after the breathing tube was removed she was able to talk to Clancy. Cavanaugh described Clancy’s emotional state as neutral and flat but said the first thing Clancy told her (while the chaplain held her hand) was essentially: “I am so glad my children are safe.”
Among the other questions she asked were: “Can I have visitors"?” and “Where is my family"?” and “Is my body broken?” and “Are my legs straight?”
Potential Effects of the Medications on the Brain and Behavior
Lindsay was prescribed a changing mix of medications over several months, including:
Antidepressants: Zoloft (sertraline), Prozac (fluoxetine), trazodone, amitriptyline, Remeron (mirtazapine)
Benzodiazepines / anxiety / sleep agents: Ativan (lorazepam), Klonopin (clonazepam), Ambien (zolpidem), Buspar (buspirone)
Antipsychotic / mood stabilizer: Seroquel (quetiapine), Lamictal (lamotrigine)
Over-the-counter: Benadryl (diphenhydramine)
These drugs (especially in combination or when rapidly started, stopped, or dose-adjusted) can produce profound effects on brain chemistry. Benzodiazepines, Seroquel, Ambien, Trazodone, and high doses of certain antidepressants can cause heavy sedation, emotional blunting, dissociation, and a flattened affect often described by patients and clinicians as a “zombie-like” state—reduced emotional responsiveness, slowed thinking, and a sense of detachment from one’s own actions or surroundings.
Memory formation can be impaired (anterograde amnesia is a known risk with benzodiazepines and Ambien), so a person may later have incomplete or no recollection of periods when they were under the influence.
Paradoxically, the same medications (or withdrawal from them, or interactions between them) can also produce periods of apparent normalcy, reduced anxiety, or even a temporary feeling of “feeling like myself again,” which is exactly what Lindsay reported with Ativan at one point. Intrusive thoughts, emotional numbness, sleep disruption, and increased agitation or hopelessness have all been reported as side effects or as consequences of polypharmacy and rapid medication changes in the postpartum period.
In short, the combination and sequence of drugs Lindsay received can create windows of profound impairment (sedation, dissociation, memory gaps, emotional flatness) alternating with intervals in which a person can appear outwardly functional or even improved. Whether or to what degree any of these effects contributed to the events of January 24, 2023, remains a central contested issue in the case.
According to Patrick, Lindsay’s condition worsened in November 2022 after all of the prescription drugs. He testified that she lost her appetite, withdrew socially, and experienced episodes of intense fear. He said that her “big spiral” began when she started taking Seroquel, an anti-psychotic drug, around early December 2022.
Lindsay’s mother, Paula, and sister, Allison, testified for the defense about changes they had observed in her mental health during the months before the killings. Clancy's mother and sister testified that she became anxious, paranoid and suicidal after the birth of her third child.
“She said that she couldn’t remember anything. The medication was pretty much just destroying her mind, and it wasn’t her. She said, ‘This isn’t me. I just want to feel better and enjoy my kids again.’ She was having more suicidal thoughts, insomnia continued to be an issue. She was really not feeling like herself.”
Patrick’s mother, Susan, subsequently testified that Lindsay had repeatedly sought help as her mental health deteriorated and had become fearful and obsessive about taking her prescribed medications. She recalled Lindsay telling her shortly before the killings that she needed help and was concerned about her condition.
The Clancy family’s nanny, Elaine Rossi, described Lindsay as a “wonderful mom” and testified that she had never been concerned about her interactions with the children.
Clancy chose not to testify. She watched the proceedings from the defense table, occasionally weeping, as when prosecutors showed autopsy photos of the children to the jury.
Jurors spent two days listening to testimony from her former husband, Patrick Clancy, and his anguished 911 call. Patrick Clancy has said in interviews that he forgives his ex-wife, whom he viewed as ill rather than evil. The trial marked the first time he has seen Lindsay Clancy since the killings.
Her defense never disputed that she killed the children. The fight is over whether she should be held criminally responsible, given the mental-health collapse — and the drug regimen — that preceded it.
By the time of the killings, in roughly four months, she’d cycled through nine different psychiatric medications across several classes — SSRIs, benzodiazepines, a sedative-hypnotic, an atypical antipsychotic, a mood stabilizer, a tricyclic antidepressant — administered by providers who, according to defense testimony, weren’t coordinating with each other or pulling her full chart. She was a nurse so I would assume she has some familiarity with risks from all these medications?!?
Benzodiazepines (Ativan, Klonopin) are amnesia drugs by design. Their job is to suppress the brain’s ability to lay down new memories — that’s part of how they work as sedatives. At normal doses they blunt anxiety; at higher doses, or combined with other sedatives, they can produce hours a person functions through — walking, talking, doing normal tasks — with little or no memory of it afterward. A minority of users also get the opposite of calm: disinhibition, agitation, and occasionally aggression, a recognized “paradoxical reaction.”
Ambien (zolpidem) carries an FDA boxed warning for exactly this profile. It’s the drug behind the well-documented “Ambien zombie” phenomenon — sleep-driving, sleep-eating, and other complex behaviors carried out with the eyes open, the person seemingly awake and coherent to anyone watching, and no memory of it the next day. Courts have accepted zolpidem-induced amnesia as a factor in criminal cases before; it’s not a fringe theory, it’s on the drug’s own label.
Antidepressants can also destabilize an undiagnosed bipolar patient. SSRIs and related drugs occasionally trigger what’s called activation syndrome — agitation, intrusive thoughts, even manic or mixed states — especially in people with an underlying bipolar vulnerability that hasn’t been diagnosed yet. Lindsay’s own defense argued this is what happened to her; her providers, working from incomplete pictures of each other’s prescriptions, kept adding rather than untangling.
Remeron, amitriptyline, and Seroquel are all sedating on top of that. Layer a sedating antidepressant, a sedating antipsychotic, and a tricyclic on top of two amnesia-prone drugs, and the sedative load compounds — while an antipsychotic added specifically to address suspected mania or psychosis is itself a marker that a provider was worried about exactly that.
Seroquel deserves its own paragraph here. I've worked in a treatment center and watched this drug work on real patients AND friends — I'm not describing a hypothetical. My job was to dispense psych meds to patients so I saw it up close and personal.
We used to informally call Seroquel a "chemical lobotomy," and that's not hyperbole.
What I saw with my own eyes wasn't sedation in the obvious sense — no slurred speech, no stumbling, nothing a bystander would flag as "drugged." It's subtler and, in some ways, more disturbing: a flattened, trance-like compliance. The person is present, responsive, capable of carrying on a coherent conversation — and at the same time strikingly suggestible and unpredictable from moment to moment. Layer high doses of Seroquel on top of two amnesia-prone drugs and a sedating tricyclic, and you have a patient who may look composed to everyone around her while operating with a fraction of her normal judgment intact. Just saying…
None of this proves what was happening in Lindsay Clancy’s head on January 24, 2023 — that’s precisely what a deadlocked jury can’t agree on so far, and what two malpractice suits will also try to litigate in more detail. But the specific effect the defense pointed to — a person who can look outwardly functional, hold a normal conversation, run errands, and still be operating with impaired memory or judgment from her medications — isn’t speculative biology. It’s a documented, labeled risk of several drugs she was on simultaneously, stacked by providers who, by the trial testimony, weren’t fully talking to each other.
In the end, will the jury find Lindsay Clancy a mother overmedicated and ignored by a fragmented, poorly coordinated mental health system, or a woman and trained nurse whose actions, however tragic their origin, were the product of choice rather than psychosis?
I don’t know.
The full record deserves to be examined before that question gets answered for you. This case deserves to be understood in full, not compressed into a headline or a 30-second clip or pink t-shirt. Because underneath the soundbites is a far more complex and terrifying story: a person caught in a system of uncoordinated psychiatric care and aggressive polypharmacy, cycling through providers who rarely spoke to each other while her condition spiraled.
That’s the real story. I’m guessing this isn’t the first time this has happened. And whatever the jury decides, that story is the one we need to reckon with — so it doesn’t happen again.
PS: Addiction to prescription psych meds is the biggest issue we have in America right now and nobody talks about it. They start giving them to toddlers at 2 years old. Ativan is booze in a pill, Adderral is Meth in a pill, Oxy is heroin in a pill, anti-depressants are cocaine in a pill, seroquel is a chemical lobotomy in a pill. A whole generation will be like Lindsay if we don't wake up soon. Not kidding. I've been in recovery for 30 years and the rooms are filled with pill heads like Lindsay who have been medicated into insanity and violence. They are taught to not use street drugs or alcohol but taking boat loads of prescription psych meds is just fine. At treatment centers they hook addicts and alcoholics on 5 different pills. Walk in with one addiction and leave with 5! Creating a lifetime addiction to psych meds! I swear they use psych meds to create all the MKULTRA psychotic "trans" killers for false flags. Prove me wrong…
In conclusion: Do I think Lindsay should be set free? NO. Do I think she should be imprisoned? YES, the same way someone who drove drunk or high on weed and killed someone would be. But this outcome would be different if all these psych medications were not involved. That’s the truth and the bigger point that America has to wrestle with.
America is way overmedicated. Our country is medicated to the gills! Big Pharma runs ads on primetime TV like it’s selling soda, doctors are pushed to prescribe dangerous psych meds faster than they can diagnose, and prosecutors won’t go near the source because it’s easier to lock up the person than question the pill. Meanwhile our enemies watch us do this to ourselves and laugh.
It’s time to wake up and admit that. Nothing will change if nothing changes.
I’m not saying that Lindsay Clancy doesn’t deserve to be imprisoned for murder for killing her kids. If she drove drunk or high on weed and ran over them she’d go to prison for the same reason.
But pretending that 13 psych meds didn’t “impair” her brain is dishonest. All these meds is just another way that our enemies are poisoning us.
Big Pharma has convinced over half the population that’s it’s OK to pop a handful of psych meds every day - and even give them to their children. 25% of women are taking brain-altering medications!
People are hesitant about taking certain vaccines but they’re fine with medicating themselves and their children into catatonia simply because a doctor prescribes a new pill.
The rest of the world isn’t like this. We are a DRUGGED culture. Half of all Americans have taken or are taking psych meds right now - you know who you are. If we don’t wake up, we’ll turn into a nation of over-medicated, compliant, self-harming zombies.
Lindsay Clancy is an example of what a brain fried on drugs can do. Is that what we want for the next generation of Americans? Not me. Too many can’t see the forest for the trees.
PS: When I was 19 I went to a doctor to ask for help with bulimia. He gave me a bottle of Valium! They have been doing this for decades! Thank God I didn’t take that or I probably would not be here today.
It's not just me. Dr. Phil said today that he believes over-medication played a big role in Lindsay Clancy's case and may have severely worsened her state.
DR PHIL: "Lindsay was prescribed, changed, or taken off 11 different psychiatric drugs by six different providers in just a four-month span. This rapid cocktail of medications - which included five antidepressants, three benzodiazepines, sleep aids like Ambien and Seroquel - an anti-psychotic - can interact negatively. Multiple drugs carried FDA black box warnings.
Instead of helping, this severe mix of dosages can trigger severe cognitive fog, paradoxical agitation, disinhibition, and can even actively induce psychosis or hallucinations in a vulnerable patient. The very treatments meant to save her may have fueled her descent into a profound psychiatric breakdown.
A person in a true psychotic break operates under a distorted reality where actions that look like punishment are actually intended as an act of "saving" the children.
Lindsay did not simply "unravel" in isolation; she proactively checked into facilities, called a suicide hotline, and actively begged providers for alternative help. Her husband, Patrick, had reportedly warned her doctors that the aggressive prescriptions were turning her into a "zombie."
DR. PHIL: “In her delusion, she didn’t think she was punishing those children. She thought she was saving those children.”
Both Lindsay and Patrick Clancy have pending malpractice claims against her treating providers. The criminal case remains unresolved as of September 1, 2026.
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Addiction to prescription psych meds is the biggest issue we have in America right now and nobody talks about it. They start giving them to toddlers at 2 years old. Ativan is booze in a pill, Adderral is Meth in a pill, Oxy is heroin in a pill, anti-depressants are cocaine in a pill, seroquel is a chemical lobotomy in a pill. A whole generation will be like Lindsay if we don't wake up soon. Not kidding. I've been in recovery for 30 years and the rooms are filled with pill heads like Lindsay who have been medicated into insanity and violence. They are taught to not use street drugs or alcohol but taking boat loads of prescription psych meds is just fine. At treatment centers they hook addicts and alcoholics on 5 different pills. Walk in with one addiction and leave with 5! Creating a lifetime addiction to psych meds! I swear they use psych meds to create all the MKULTRA psychotic "trans" killers for false flags. Prove me wrong.
This is an horrific case and there are many opinions floating around, some of them frankly crazy, but this is the most detailed explanation that I have seen of everything that happened, including a full listing of all the various medications that Lindsay Clancy was prescribed, many of which are contraindicated to be given at the same time!
Whatever your thoughts on her guilt, I think the bigger issue here, as Peggy Tierney points out so well, is that we, as a society, MUST start having serious and significant conversations about the mass overpresciption of medications in this country, especially medications that are known to cause altered mental status!
My 82 year old mother, diagnosed with dementia, was prescribed Risperidone by a new neurologist, who thought it might make her more amenable to allowing caregivers to assist her in daily hygiene. I told her that my mother tended to have paradoxical reactions to most medications but she us wanted to try it. In less than two weeks, my previously sweet, but confused mother had become a different person and was behaving in totally socially inappropriate ways. We titrated her down off of it over the next two weeks but she never recovered mentally from the damage that had been down! Within six months, I had to place her into a fulltime locked down memory facility for the remainder of her life!
I understand the horror that people feel at what Lindsay Clancy did - it was categorically evil and I do not hesitate to use that term. BUT, I am frustrated at how many people are missing the forest for the trees in this story!