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What We Learned This Week at Lindsay Clancy’s Trial
Jurors heard diary entries and psychiatrists describe Clancy’s worsening mental health as prosecutors and defense debated intent and postpartum psychosis.
- On Friday, jurors in the trial of Lindsay Clancy heard psychiatric testimony as the second week concluded, with attorneys reading aloud diary entries documenting her declining mental health while caring for her three children.
- Prosecutors argue Clancy 'acted intentionally, rationally and swiftly' when she fatally strangled her three children on January 24, 2023, while defense attorneys contend she suffered from postpartum psychosis stemming from mental decline beginning four months after Callan's birth.
- Psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Tufts testified she treated Clancy over roughly a dozen sessions from September 2022 to January 2023, repeatedly adjusting medications as Clancy reported severe depression and intrusive thoughts she described as 'a feeling like I'm going to die.'
- Two forensic psychiatrists testified Monday that Clancy appeared clear-headed and rational days after the killings, though she sobbed heavily Thursday during autopsy testimony about Callan; after the incident, Clancy cut her wrists and neck and jumped from a second-story window, requiring CPR and blood transfusions.
- The trial is expected to last up to six weeks with an 18-person jury hearing from dozens more witnesses, as more than 50 have already testified; Clancy has pleaded not guilty to all three counts of murder.
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‘I can’t do it’: Lindsay Clancy, mother accused of killing her 3 children, breaks down during autopsy testimony
PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy started crying before a medical examiner took the stand Wednesday in the Duxbury mom’s triple murder trial. Dr. Renee Stonebridge, from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, testified to her examination of all three…
Lindsay Clancy breaks down in court during graphic testimony on her children's autopsies
Lindsay Clancy broke down in court during graphic testimony on her children's autopsies. Clancy's therapist also took to the witness stand and testified that the defendant called crisis support after having "intrusive" thoughts. NBC Boston's Sue O'Connell reports.
·New York, United States
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Lindsay Clancy erupts into sobs, yells as medical examiner testifies about autopsy of her daughter: ‘I can’t do this!’
Lindsay Clancy tightly held hands with her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, and wept during the testimony of the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy of her daughter Cora.
·New York, United States
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