Lindsay Clancy's 'mind was gone' when she killed her children, her lawyer says at trial's end

Lindsay Clancy, a 36-year-old mother from Massachusetts, is on trial for the murder of her three young children in 2023. Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, is urging the jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings. Clancy admitted to strangling her three children, aged 5, 3, and 8 months, with exercise bands in the basement of her home in Duxbury, a Boston suburb.

After the murders, she attempted suicide by cutting herself and jumping from a second-story window, but only suffered paralysis as a result. Reddington argues that Clancy's actions were driven by mental illness and manipulates evidence to challenge the prosecution's portrayal of her as a reckless and dangerous mother. Prosecutors argue that Clancy knew what she was doing was wrong, as she sent her husband out on an errand minutes before the killings, and later admitted to him that she had tried to kill herself.

If found not guilty by reason of insanity, Clancy would be committed to a state psychiatric hospital for evaluation.