Psychiatry’s Susan Hatters-Friedman examines how media coverage influences discussion of maternal filicide

How Lindsay Clancy and ‘social contagion’ could be fueling horrifying killer-mom cases

New York Post: Susan Hatters-Friedman, the Phillip J. Resnick Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at the CWRU School of Medicine and an adjunct professor at the School of Law, said that extensive coverage of Lindsay Clancy’s case may be influencing public discussion of maternal child killings. Experts cautioned that a recent string of cases could reflect social contagion or confirmation bias, while noting the rarity and varied motivations behind maternal filicide.