Lindsay Clancy sobbed in court as jurors listened to the anguished 911 call her then-husband made after finding their three children strangled in their Massachusetts home.
Mental State in Question
On the roughly seven-minute recording, Patrick Clancy can be heard speaking with his wife upon finding her badly injured and bleeding in their yard, after she jumped from the home’s second-story window. He then tells the dispatcher he’s going to check on the children. Moments later, he howls and cries after finding them in the basement.
Three years after their deaths, the murder trial has centered on Lindsay Clancy’s mental state at the time. Her lawyers will seek to prove she had postpregnancy psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth.
Prosecutors say Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, acted intentionally and is criminally responsible for the deaths of 3-year-old Dawson, 5-year-old Cora and 8-month-old Callan in January 2023.
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