Psychotic criminals can somewhat premeditate their crime in simple ways, a psychotic can have "logic to it's madness". I don't think this particular element is too damning. What is very damning in my opinion is the fact, and this is coming from the defense, that she only heard the "male voice" on the day of the murder. never before, never after. That's very convienient. Post-partum psychosis typically happens within a month of the birth (and it's nasty business, my grandmother on my mother side suffered from this...), lindsay had given birth 8 months prior. So to believe the post-partum psychosis theory, you would need to believe that her case was Atypical in two ways : Late onset + Cures by itself.
Another hypothesis would be that she developped schizophrenia. But as far as I know, schizophrenia does not develop within a day, it creeps up for months before somebody is heavily affected, so it's not compatible with her not reporting hearing voices prior to the murders. I don't buy the argument that she would have been worried about losing the kids if she reported hearing voices. My understanding was that her couple was doing OK, and she had plenty of support.
Psychosis due to her medication ? That's the more credible option in my opinion, but then you would need to believe that somehow she was psychotic on that day and never after... I think the medication psychosis for only one day hypothesis is way too unlikely to be a reasonable doubt.
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Psychotic criminals can somewhat premeditate their crime in simple ways, a psychotic can have "logic to it's madness". I don't think this particular element is too damning. What is very damning in my opinion is the fact, and this is coming from the defense, that she only heard the "male voice" on the day of the murder. never before, never after. That's very convienient. Post-partum psychosis typically happens within a month of the birth (and it's nasty business, my grandmother on my mother side suffered from this...), lindsay had given birth 8 months prior. So to believe the post-partum psychosis theory, you would need to believe that her case was Atypical in two ways : Late onset + Cures by itself.
Another hypothesis would be that she developped schizophrenia. But as far as I know, schizophrenia does not develop within a day, it creeps up for months before somebody is heavily affected, so it's not compatible with her not reporting hearing voices prior to the murders. I don't buy the argument that she would have been worried about losing the kids if she reported hearing voices. My understanding was that her couple was doing OK, and she had plenty of support.
Psychosis due to her medication ? That's the more credible option in my opinion, but then you would need to believe that somehow she was psychotic on that day and never after... I think the medication psychosis for only one day hypothesis is way too unlikely to be a reasonable doubt.
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