This is the tragic story that's taken over group chats this week and captured worldwide attention. Lindsay Clancy, a labour and delivery nurse from Massachusetts, is on trial for the murder of her three young children – Dawson, Cora and Callan.

She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, with her defence team arguing she was in the midst of active postpartum psychosis.

What's playing out in a US courtroom right now (and being live-streamed across the world) is to determine whether she can be held criminally responsible for their deaths. On this special episode of Mamamia Outloud, host Mia Freedman is joined by The Quicky journalists Tamsin Rose and Georgie Page to make sense of this unimaginable story.

It's a heavy story, and one the team wishes they didn't have to record. But it's also a conversation about how a woman who says she was begging for help ended up here, and why this case in particular has struck a nerve with women who've never followed true crime cases before. Listen to the full conversation now on Mamamia Out Loud below.

Feature Image: Plymouth County Superior Court.