Defence to continue probing psychiatric care in Lindsay Clancy trial
After the killings, Lindsay Clancy attempted to take her own life by jumping from a second-storey window. Check live updates here.
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Massachusetts is currently underway, with Clancy on trial for the first-degree murders of her three children. Clancy, a former nurse from Duxbury, has pleaded not guilty, arguing that she was not criminally responsible due to severe postpartum mental illness, including postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder.
She contends that she was heavily medicated in the months leading up to the killings. Prosecutors, however, maintain that Clancy was mentally troubled but not psychotic at the time of the murders, suggesting there was planning and deliberation behind the killings. The trial is being held in Plymouth Superior Court, with a jury of 18 people expected to deliberate.
On the day of the killings, January 24, 2023, Clancy allegedly strangled her three children - Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months - in their basement using exercise bands while her husband was out running errands. Clancy later attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window, surviving with catastrophic injuries. Clancy's defense team has criticized the psychiatrist who treated her, focusing on video-only appointments, limited experience, and the psychiatric medications she was prescribed.
Clancy and her ex-husband have also sued doctors and hospitals, alleging treatment failures and overmedication.
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