Lindsay Clancy's Diary Chronicled Desperation and 'Brain Fog' Before She Killed Kids

Lindsay Clancy's written diary chronicled her growing despair and confusion in the months leading up to the shocking killings of her three young children in a Massachusetts town in 2023. In her entries, Ms. Clancy expressed overwhelming feelings of anxiety, insomnia, and guilt about not being able to breastfeed her newborn, Callan.

She also described feeling disconnected from her family and struggling to manage her new role as a mother. In one entry dated November 18th, 2022, Ms. Clancy wrote that she desperately sought a break from caring for everyone, hoping to find a physical ailment to explain her condition.

While Ms. Clancy's defense team alleges she was driven to her tragic actions by postpartum psychosis, prosecutors maintain that she intentionally murdered Callan, Dawson, and Cora - aged 8 months to 5 years. Clancy's lawyers argue that she had bipolar disorder, which was not fully diagnosed until after the killings, and that her mental health worsened as she switched psychiatric medications.

The diary reveals a steady decline in her mental state, with her writing about feeling "crazy brain fog" and paralyzed by the fear of her children becoming overtired.

Despite checking herself into a psychiatric hospital the day before the killings, Ms. Clancy allegedly believed a commanding voice was instructing her to kill her children. When the police arrived at their home, she was found broken and paralyzed from the waist down after falling from the second story. In the hospital, she expressed horror at the scene and questioned her ability to communicate through her paralyzed body.