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Lindsay Clancy murder trial

The prosecution of Lindsay Clancy, including pretrial rulings and the evidence presented at trial.

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

Nanny testifies about Clancy's weight loss and sleep problems at trial

2026-08-05

The family's former nanny testified Wednesday on the seventh day of Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, telling jurors that Clancy lost significant weight, could not sleep, and complained of postpregnancy mental health issues in the months before her three children were killed.

Toxicologist testifies only quetiapine was slightly elevated in Clancy's blood

2026-08-05

Forensic toxicologist Justin Brower testified Wednesday at Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, that only one of four psychiatric medications found in the defendant's blood appeared slightly elevated above prescribed levels. Brower said quetiapine was not at a "toxic concentration" or "suicidal concentration" and acknowledged under defense questioning that the results "don't tell the entire story."

Police describe discovering three dead children in Duxbury home as trial hears 911 call

2026-07-30

Police officers and paramedics testified Thursday about the aftermath of the killings at a Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023, where they found three young children strangled with exercise bands after Patrick Clancy's 911 call. The testimony came in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse who faces life in prison without parole if convicted of killing her children — three-year-old Dawson, five-year-old Cora, and eight-month-old Callan. Clancy's lawyers do not dispute that she killed the children but argue she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to childbirth.

Mother accused of killing 3 children stands trial for postpartum psychosis

2026-07-28

The trial of Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital accused of strangling her three children in 2023, opened Monday in Massachusetts with both sides agreeing she killed the children but disputing her criminal responsibility. The case centers on whether postpartum psychosis left her unable to distinguish reality.