Editor’s note: Testimony in this trial may be graphic and difficult for some viewers to hear.

What to Know

  • Testimony continued Thursday morning in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, with jurors hearing from one witness before being dismissed for the day. Testimony will resume at 9 a.m. Friday.
  • Prosecutors say Lindsay strangled her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — on Jan. 24, 2023, in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home after sending her then-husband Patrick out for some errands. She then jumped out of the home’s second-story window and was paralyzed from the waist down in the fall. The defense says she was in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible.
  • Watch “Commonwealth Confidential” at 7 p.m. in the video player atop this story for a full recap and more analysis.

Testimony continued Thursday morning in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, with jurors hearing from one witness before being dismissed for the day. Testimony will resume at 9 a.m. Friday. This came after the judge excused the jury early on Wednesday due to what he described as “an unforseen circumstance.”

Prosecutors say Lindsay strangled her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — on Jan. 24, 2023, in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home after sending her then-husband Patrick out for some errands. She then jumped out of the home’s second-story window and was paralyzed from the waist down in the fall. The defense says she was in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible.

You can watch the judge addressing jurors at the close of the day in the video player above, and read a recap of the day’s proceedings below: