{"id":642157,"date":"2026-08-17T17:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/642157\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:36:18","slug":"lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-livestream-video-monday-august-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/642157\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Clancy murder trial livestream video: Monday, August 17"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCrime\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tProsecutors rested their case Monday morning, setting the stage for defense attorney Kevin Reddington to begin calling witnesses.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Abby Patkin<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tupdated on August 17, 2026 | 12:56 PM\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

6 minutes to read<\/p>\n

Livestream via Law & Crime.<\/p>\n

Judge William Sullivan called for the lunch break shortly before 1 p.m., after defense attorney Kevin Reddington finished his direct examination of Paula Musgrove. Court is expected to resume at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

On the stand:<\/strong> Paula Musgrove, Lindsay Clancy\u2019s mother<\/p>\n

Previously:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This story may contain content readers find disturbing. For help with postpartum mood disorders, text or call 1-833-TLC-MAMA for the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, call 988 or go to\u00a0https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/<\/a>\u00a0to chat online.<\/p>\n

12:15 p.m. update: Lindsay Clancy\u2019s defense calls first witness<\/strong><\/p>\n

Judge William Sullivan denied Lindsay Clancy\u2019s motion for a required finding of not guilty<\/a>, disagreeing with her lawyer\u2019s assessment that prosecutors had put forth no evidence to rebut her insanity defense.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe evidence that has been presented in this case is overwhelming that this young woman was clearly and unequivocally suffering from a mental disease or defect, that it was occupying her waking hours, her life, that she considered all of her avenues, she attempted to go to these health care providers \u2014 using the term loosely,\u201d defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued. \u201cShe went to these people. She had medication after medication after medication. She was obviously acting, I suggest to the court, in a state that was observed by witnesses that, in fact, she was suffering from mental disease or defect.\u201d<\/p>\n

He asked Sullivan to find Clancy not guilty or, failing that, to lower her charges from first-degree murder to second-degree.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Assistant District Attorney Jennfier Sprague asserted Reddington\u2019s request was premature, noting that prosecutors plan to call their own experts to rebut defense witnesses who will speak to Clancy\u2019s state of mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After denying the motion, Sullivan brought the jury back into the courtroom. Reddington then called his first witness: Margaret Hamp, Clancy\u2019s former co-worker from her time as a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital.<\/p>\n

In a note logged on her cellphone, Lindsay Clancy wrote that her prescription medications \u201cstole my motherhood and my life\u201d and \u201cstole me from my own body.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington displayed the note briefly as he cross-examined Cellebrite expert Ian Whiffin.<\/p>\n

\u201cBasically, this is the note that says, \u2018I was the healthiest, happiest mom. I worked out every morning, meditated, took care of myself, and basically, my life has turned to crap,\u2019\u201d he summarized.<\/p>\n

Reddington also had Whiffin confirm Clancy\u2019s various Google searches for drug interactions with Trazodone, a treatment for major depression, and other inquiries for antidepressants. He further noted that Clancy\u2019s phone data wouldn\u2019t necessarily show anything she did after the device stopped recording her movements the evening of Jan. 24, 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the phone could have been put down,\u201d he said. \u201cThe [Apple] Watch could have been put down. Battery died, whatever those issues could be, and the person would still be going down the stairs, going up the stairs, going in the backyard, doing push-ups, whatever. You just don\u2019t know, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Following a brief redirect examination, Whiffin concluded his testimony. After he left the stand, the prosecution rested its case.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Judge William Sullivan sent jurors out of the courtroom on another break and said he will hear arguments on Clancy\u2019s motion for a required finding of not guilty<\/a> following the recess. A defendant will typically make a motion for a required finding of not guilty at the end of the state\u2019s case, arguing that the evidence against them was insufficient to yield a conviction.<\/p>\n

10:45 a.m. update: Cellebrite expert testifies about Lindsay Clancy\u2019s phone data<\/strong>\"\"Ian Whiffin, of Cellebrite, testifies. Greg Derr \/ The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool<\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy\u2019s phone data indicates she had just gone up a flight of stairs in her home when her then-husband called her from the pharmacy on the evening of Jan. 24, 2023, a Cellebrite expert testified Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ian Whiffin, a customer engagement manager at the digital forensics company, walked jurors through some of the Apple Health data gleaned from Clancy\u2019s cellphone after she strangled her three children at home in Duxbury the night of the 24th.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said the last heart rate recorded to Clancy\u2019s phone from her Apple Watch was at 5:23 p.m., at a rate of 57 beats per minute. According to Whiffin, the watch would stop recording vitals if its battery died or if it had been powered down or removed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whiffin said the phone data also showed the device going up two flights of stairs between 5:33 p.m. and 5:38 p.m. that day. He noted that flights are recognized as either a 3-meter or 10-foot incline over 16 steps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Whiffin also confirmed that Clancy\u2019s then-husband, Patrick, attempted to call her at 5:33 p.m., but the call went unanswered. Patrick previously testified that he tried to call Clancy<\/a> when he discovered CVS was out of the brand of stool softener she had asked him to pick up for their 5-year-old daughter, Cora.<\/p>\n

When Clancy called him back about a minute later, \u201cShe was pretty quiet,\u201d Patrick testified. \u201cIt sounded like she was busy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whiffin confirmed another unanswered call from Patrick to Clancy at 6:09 p.m., around the time Patrick said he arrived home to an eerie silence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague also had Whiffin confirm Google searches on Clancy\u2019s phone, including a Jan. 18, 2023, search for \u201cketamine for suicidal ideation\u201d and two searches the following day for \u201csymptoms of postpartum psychosis\u201d and \u201cpsychosis symptoms.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Whiffin, Clancy\u2019s phone was unlocked for the last time around 5:13 p.m. on Jan. 24, 2023, when she Googled children\u2019s laxatives and sent a text to Patrick informing him which brand to buy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Judge William Sullivan excused jurors for a brief recess before defense attorney Kevin Reddington began his cross-examination.<\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy<\/a>\u2019s murder trial enters its fourth week of testimony Monday as prosecutors near the end of their case.<\/p>\n

When court was last in session, jurors heard the emotional journal entries and Google searches investigators found on Clancy\u2019s cellphone after she strangled her three children and attempted suicide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The notes ranged from affirmations \u2014 \u201cI will overcome postpartum anxiety and depression,\u201d \u201cI am a great mom,\u201d and \u201cI love my kids\u201d \u2014 to laments about being \u201cterrified of something happening to my kids or doing something wrong to mess up their development.\u201d<\/p>\n

In one log from Oct. 25, 2022, Clancy wrote that she was \u201csad and depressed\u201d she couldn\u2019t parent her third child, infant Callan, like she had her eldest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I sort of resent my other children because they prevent me from treating Cal like my first baby. And I know that\u2019s not fair to them. I know that,\u201d Clancy wrote. \u201cI was feeling so depressed last evening when Cora and Dawson [her two older children] came home from school. I know it runs off on them so we had a pretty rough evening. I want to feel love and connection with all my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clancy, 36, does not deny she strangled 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan at home in Duxbury on Jan. 24, 2023. But she is raising an insanity defense<\/a> as she maintains she was wracked by postpartum mental illness and heard a voice in her head instructing her to kill the children and herself. Her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, has painted a picture of a loving young mother coming apart at the seams \u2014 at odds with prosecutors\u2019 description of an \u201cextremely controlling<\/a>, meticulous, and manipulative\u201d killer who had tired of her life as a mother.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As he cross-examined Timothy Chiappini, previously of the Plymouth County Massachusetts State Police detective unit, last Thursday, Reddington highlighted Clancy\u2019s Google searches for \u201cwhere is the carotid artery,\u201d \u201chow to slit your throat to die,\u201d and \u201ccan you turn airbags off on Kia Sorento\u201d \u2014 the type of car Clancy drove.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clancy ultimately tried to kill herself after strangling her children, paralyzing herself in the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Reddington, Clancy\u2019s internet history also showed \u201cpage after page after page\u201d of Google searches for questions regarding bipolar disorder symptoms, psychosis, schizophrenia, hallucinations, insomnia, and medications for anxiety and depression, among other alarming keywords.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Just four days before the killings, she also Googled \u201ccan you treat a sociopath,\u201d followed by a search for information about psychosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reddington further emphasized Clancy\u2019s texts with her mother throughout January 2023, and Chiappini confirmed Clancy messaged her mother on Jan. 14 saying she was \u201changing in there and waiting for the day I wake up and feel [like] me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Lindsay Clancy looks toward the prosecutors\u2019 table during her murder trial, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. \u2013 Josh Reynolds\/AP Photo, Pool<\/p>\n

\t\t\"Profile\t<\/p>\n

Abby Patkin is a general assignment news reporter whose work touches on public transit, crime, health, and everything in between. She has been covering the Lindsay Clancy murder case since January 2023.<\/p>\n

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