{"id":58554,"date":"2026-07-30T02:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/58554\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T02:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T02:26:23","slug":"lindsay-clancy-trial-day-2-husbands-911-call-brings-tears-to-courtroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/58554\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Clancy trial day 2: Husband’s 911 call brings tears to courtroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) \u2014 Lindsay Clancy<\/a> sobbed in court Wednesday as jurors listened to the anguished 911 call her then-husband made after returning from an errand to find she\u2019d strangled their three children<\/a> in their Massachusetts home.<\/p>\n

On the roughly 7-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\u2019s second-story window.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook at me,\u201d he says. \u201cSay my name.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then tells the dispatcher he\u2019s going to check on the children. Moments later, he howls and cries after finding them in the basement. The confused dispatcher repeatedly asks what happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe killed the kids!\u201d he yells. <\/p>\n

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Patrick Clancy sits on the stand during Lindsay Clancy\u2019s murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (David L. Ryan\/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)<\/p>\n

Patrick Clancy sits on the stand during Lindsay Clancy\u2019s murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (David L. Ryan\/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)<\/p>\n

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Three years after their deaths, the murder trial has centered on Lindsay Clancy\u2019s mental state at the time. Her lawyers will seek to prove she had postpregnancy psychosis<\/a>, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. <\/p>\n

Prosecutors say Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, acted intentionally and is criminally responsible<\/a> for the deaths of 3-year-old Dawson, 5-year-old Cora, and 8-month-old Callan in January 2023. <\/p>\n

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Her lawyer said in opening arguments Monday that she had bipolar disorder, and that antidepressants prescribed after the birth of her third child worsened her condition. On the day of the killings, Lindsay Clancy said she heard a voice telling her, \u201cThis is your last chance. Kill the children so you can kill yourself,\u201d according to her lawyer.<\/p>\n

If convicted of murder, she faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.<\/p>\n

Patrick Clancy has said in interviews that he forgives his ex-wife, whom he viewed as ill rather than evil. The trial marks the first time he has seen Lindsay Casey since the killings.<\/p>\n

A husband\u2019s emotional testimony and a chilling 911 call<\/p>\n

Patrick Clancy testified Wednesday that his last image of Dawson was of the boy sitting on the couch, eating chicken nuggets and green beans. Lindsay Clancy had asked her husband to make a quick trip for takeout food and medication at a pharmacy for Cora. Prosecutors say this was an excuse to get him out of the house.<\/p>\n

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Jurors were shown surveillance video from the pharmacy of Patrick Clancy on the phone with his wife, asking a question about the medicine.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was pretty quiet. It sounded like she was busy,\u201d he testified Wednesday. \u201cI remember hanging up thinking she was probably in the middle of giving baths or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Returning home, it was unusually silent. He called out to his family. <\/p>\n

When no one answered, he searched the children\u2019s rooms and the bathroom, again thinking they might be in the tub, before finding blood throughout the main bedroom and a window open.<\/p>\n

Injured but conscious, Lindsay Clancy told him she\u2019d tried to kill herself and that the kids were in the basement, without saying they were dead. He didn\u2019t realize he was still on the phone with 911 as he ran downstairs to find each had been strangled with exercise bands. <\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy\u2019s parents, seated in the front of the court, also cried as the call was played. Patrick had already left the room after finishing his testimony. <\/p>\n

Jurors were shown the clothes each child had been wearing, with a prosecutor pulling the items from clear plastic evidence bags: pajamas and a pink robe for Cora; a nightshirt and dinosaur underwear for Dawson; a red onesie decorated with snowflakes for Callan.<\/p>\n

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Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague holds up as evidence the pajamas of Callan Clancy during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (David L. Ryan\/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)<\/p>\n

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague holds up as evidence the pajamas of Callan Clancy during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (David L. Ryan\/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)<\/p>\n

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The trial will hinge on Lindsay Clancy\u2019s mental state<\/p>\n

Patrick Clancy testified Monday about his wife\u2019s deteriorating mental health in the months before the killings, including her telling him about intrusive thoughts of harming the children and of suicide. <\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy had sought care from experts in postpartum mood disorders, was put on multiple psychiatric medications, and when nothing worked, checked in to a psychiatric hospital. She killed the children 19 days after she was discharged.<\/p>\n

No one ever told Patrick Clancy his wife shouldn\u2019t be alone with the children, he testified Wednesday. \u201cI didn\u2019t know what psychosis was until after this happened.\u201d <\/p>\n

Clancy and her ex-husband accuse her medical providers of failing to properly diagnose, treat and monitor her, according to lawsuits filed earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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Defense attorney Kevin Reddington and Lindsay Clancy listen to the 911 recording from Jan. 24, 2023, during Clancy\u2019s murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (David L. Ryan\/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)<\/p>\n

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington and Lindsay Clancy listen to the 911 recording from Jan. 24, 2023, during Clancy\u2019s murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., on Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (David L. Ryan\/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)<\/p>\n

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On cross-examination, Clancy\u2019s attorney, Kevin Reddington, aimed to demonstrate she took her medications and closely tracked her declining mental health. He introduced daily, handwritten notes she took of her medicines and her mood, including repeatedly writing \u201chorrible thoughts.\u201d She also had a book and fact sheet on postpartum anxiety and a chart where she tracked her mood.<\/p>\n

Reddington also got Patrick Clancy to acknowledge that many of her medical appointments starting in the summer of 2022 were with nurse practitioners and on Zoom calls lasting only 20 minutes. They also went through multiple medications she was prescribed, including Seroquel — an antipsychotic medication for which doctors increased her dosage in December.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe idea was that it would help with sleep, but she didn\u2019t get better. She got worse,\u201d Patrick Clancy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) \u2014 Lindsay Clancy sobbed in court Wednesday as jurors listened to the anguished 911 call…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[61,56,50,8,62,224,927,29472,1784,2029,928,9,31083,9545,1275,7,2636,54,917],"class_list":["post-58554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-ap-top-news","tag-courts","tag-general-news","tag-headlines","tag-health","tag-homicide","tag-juries","tag-lindsay-clancy","tag-massachusetts","tag-medication","tag-mental-health","tag-news","tag-patrick-clancy","tag-pregnancy-and-childbirth","tag-rhode-island","tag-top-stories","tag-trials","tag-u-s-news","tag-violence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/117006564412927412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}