SHE DROWNED HER 3 CHILDREN.
THEY RELEASED HER.
THEN SHE HAD 3 MORE … AND DROWNED THEM TOO.
It sounds too horrifying to be real.
But it happened.
On March 8, 1954, Maine mother Constance Fisher drowned her three young children Richard, 6, Daniel, 4, and Deborah, still a baby in the bathtub.
Her husband came home and found them.
Constance had also attempted to take her own life. A note reportedly said she believed God had told her to kill the children to save them from evil. She was diagnosed with severe mental illness and committed to Augusta State Hospital rather than imprisoned.
Five years later, in 1959, she was released from the hospital.
Her husband stayed with her.
And they started another family.
They had Kathleen, Michael and Natalie.
Then, on June 30, 1966 12 years after the first 3 children died her husband came home to another nightmare.
All 3 of those children were dead too.
Kathleen was 6.
Michael was 4.
Natalie was about 9 months old.
They had been drowned.
Again.
Contemporary newspapers described the second killings as a horrifying repetition of the first tragedy. Fisher survived another suicide attempt and was ultimately returned to psychiatric confinement.
And the story has 1 final, eerie chapter.
In 1973, Constance Fisher escaped from Augusta State Hospital. Her body was later discovered in the Kennebec River. Her death was officially recorded as an accidental drowning.
6 children.
Two sets of 3
12 years apart.
The first three deaths were a horror.
The second three leave a question that is almost impossible to comprehend:
After she had already drowned three of her children, how was she ever placed in a position where three more children could die the same way?
Can we all agree Lindsay Clancy MUST be locked up for life??