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Clancy's internet searches indicate premeditated suicide plot

Prosecutors revived a theory that Lindsay Clancy faked a suicide attempt after allegedly planning the killings of her three children, based on internet searches from her family computer and cellphone.

Clancy murder trial focuses on psychiatric hospital stay

Clancy murder trial focuses on psychiatric hospital stay
  • Lindsay Clancy's murder trial focused Friday on the nearly five days she spent in a psychiatric hospital a few weeks before she killed her three children.
  • A prosecutor, questioning one of Clancy's McLean Hospital psychiatrists, underscored that she denied to clinicians that she wanted to hurt anyone else or planned to kill herself.
  • Clancy's defense aimed to show that she sought mental health help for months, wasn't properly diagnosed as she went from provider to provider, and was put on a series of medications that left her worse off.
  • Both sides treat her hospital stay as a key chapter in their accounts of her mental state when she strangled the children in their suburban home and then jumped out a second-story window.
 2026-08-07 · 3 MIN READ

Lindsay Clancy sobs in court as jury hears husband's 911 call

Illustration accompanying article: Lindsay Clancy sobs in court as jury hears husband's 911 call
  • Lindsay Clancy cried in a Massachusetts courtroom Wednesday as prosecutors played the 911 call her then-husband Patrick Clancy made after finding their three children strangled in the family's home.
  • The roughly seven-minute recording, presented on the second day of Clancy's murder trial, documented Patrick Clancy's reaction as he discovered his wife bleeding in the yard and then found the children in the basement.
  • The Associated Press reported that Patrick Clancy can be heard on the call telling the dispatcher he would check on the children, and moments later yelling, "She killed the kids!"
  • The trial is being heard in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where prosecutors are presenting evidence related to the deaths.
 2026-07-29 · 3 MIN READ