Lindsay Clancy jurors will visit her old $800k home today to see where she killed her three children then tried to take her own life: Live updates
Lindsay Clancy's murder trial continued with harrowing testimony from doctors who tried to save her three children, while jurors visited the family's former $800,000 home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where the killings took place. Clancy, a 35-year-old nurse, is accused of strangling five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan with exercise bands in January 2023. She has pleaded not guilty, with her defence arguing she was suffering severe postpartum psychosis after being prescribed 13 different psychiatric medications, while prosecutors contend the killings were premeditated.
During Wednesday's proceedings, Dr Mark Joseph Tenerowicz described Dawson's injuries, including bruising and ruptured blood vessels, while Dr Benjamin Kaufman testified that Callan's heart had stopped and he showed no brain function on arrival at hospital. The 18-member jury toured the closed-off street and family home, as well as the nearby CVS and takeaway restaurant Clancy's husband, Patrick, visited on the night of the killings. The defence also submitted mental health logs Clancy kept while medicated, recording "horrible thoughts" and lack of motivation. Clancy attempted to take her own life after the killings and remains paralysed; Patrick Clancy has since filed a medical malpractice suit against her clinicians and has remarried.
In short
- Doctors gave harrowing testimony on trying to save Clancy's children
- Jury toured the Duxbury home where the killings occurred
- Defence cites postpartum psychosis and overmedication; logs entered as evidence
Explained simply
Lindsay Clancy is a former nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, accused of killing her three young children in January 2023. The children were five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan; Clancy also tried to take her own life.
Clancy has pleaded not guilty. Her defence says she was experiencing severe postpartum psychosis, a serious mental health condition that can develop after childbirth, while prosecutors say the killings were planned.
The case centres on what happened to the children and Clancy’s mental state at the time. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, and the doctors who treated the children are among the people connected to the case.
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