SIX SMALL GRAVES: The 1954 Maine Case That Parallels The Lindsay Clancy Mistrial

A Massachusetts jury spent a week unable to decide whether Lindsay Clancy was responsible for killing her three children; seventy-two years ago Maine never asked that question about Constance Fisher at all, and five years later it sent her home to her husband… to have more children… and to kill them as well.

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SOURCES and RESOURCES:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Fisher
- https://murderpedia.org/female.F/f/fisher-constance.htm
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- http://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/RS/RS1954/RS1954_c027.pdf
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- http://lldc.mainelegislature.org/Open/RS/RS1916/RS1916_c139.pdf
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Originally aired: September 04, 2026

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