{"id":1030845,"date":"2026-08-29T11:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1030845\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T11:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:34:15","slug":"key-moments-from-the-lindsay-clancy-trial-as-jurors-deliberate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1030845\/","title":{"rendered":"Key moments from the Lindsay Clancy trial as jurors deliberate"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) \u2014 Jurors in the closely watched Lindsay Clancy trial<\/a> began deliberating this week \u2014 but had not reached a verdict<\/a> by the end of the day Friday.<\/p>\n

They have a lot to consider.<\/p>\n

Over the past five weeks, the jury heard testimony from doctors, first responders, relatives and even Clancy\u2019s former husband. It now weighs the question of whether she should be held criminally responsible<\/a> for killing her three young children at her Massachusetts home in 2023.<\/p>\n

Both sides agree Clancy did it. But her attorneys argue the former labor and delivery nurse was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time, and that poor mental healthcare exacerbated her condition. Prosecutors argue she intentionally planned the killings.<\/p>\n

If Clancy is convicted, her sentence could be as severe as life in prison. If she\u2019s found not guilty, she may be released or remain confined in a mental health facility.<\/p>\n

As the jury deliberates, here are moments from the trial they may be considering.<\/p>\n

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EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.<\/p>\n

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Clancy\u2019s former husband made anguished 911 call<\/p>\n

Clancy\u2019s former husband, Patrick Clancy, was first to take the stand.<\/p>\n

In emotional testimony, he described the day he found his wife after she tried to kill herself.<\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy had sent him out to get takeout food and medication for their daughter, which prosecutors argue was an excuse to get him out of the house.<\/p>\n

He came home to find the house unusually silent, before finding blood throughout the main bedroom and a window open.<\/p>\n

Jurors listened to the 911 call Patrick Clancy made<\/a> after finding his wife outside in the snow. Clancy can be heard speaking with his wife, then tells the dispatcher he\u2019s going to check on the children. <\/p>\n

Moments later, he howls and cries after finding his children in the basement. The confused dispatcher repeatedly asks what happened.<\/p>\n

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

Everyone knew Clancy was struggling<\/p>\n

Clancy\u2019s mother, mother-in-law, sister, friends and co-workers testified that Clancy struggled with her mental health after giving birth to Callan, the youngest of her three children.<\/p>\n

Clancy\u2019s mother-in-law, Susan Clancy, said she and her former daughter-in-law were close. Both worked as labor and delivery nurses. She described Lindsay as a wonderful mother.<\/a><\/p>\n

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But Susan Clancy testified that Lindsay had become anxious, paranoid and suicidal, and that the psychiatric care she was getting wasn\u2019t helping.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe felt unwell. She had insomnia. She was losing her appetite. She was very anxious and sad,\u201d Susan Clancy said. \u201cShe was begging for help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lindsay Clancy\u2019s mother, Paula Musgrove, testified that her daughter was scared of sleeping alone<\/a>, became paranoid and believed the medications she was taking \u201cwere destroying her mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit? I\u2019m really sick. Something is wrong,\u201d Clancy wrote in an October 2022 text message that Paula Musgrove read in court. \u201cI had horrible insomnia all night, and I just don\u2019t know how I am going to get through the day. \u2026 It\u2019s just really scary, and I don\u2019t want to be alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The defense questioned the quality of Clancy\u2019s medical care<\/p>\n

Clancy saw several doctors about her declining mental health, and eventually checked herself in to a psychiatric hospital. <\/p>\n

Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, argued that she was misdiagnosed and overmedicated.<\/p>\n

As he cross-examined one of her psychiatrists, Dr. Jennifer Tufts<\/a>, Reddington questioned her expertise, prescribing decisions and use of 25-minute video appointments with limited time for talk therapy.<\/p>\n

At one point, Reddington implied that Tufts was a box-checking \u201crobot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat did you do? You had a woman who was telling you she felt hopeless,\u201d he asked as they discussed an appointment about two months before the killings.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told her that this was something we could address, that there was hope, that there are treatments, that there are different types of programs,\u201d Tufts said, \u201cso she knew that she still had options and a reason to hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clancy said she heard a voice telling her to kill<\/p>\n

Paul Zeizel, a clinical and forensic psychologist who visited Lindsay Clancy in the hospital after she killed the children, testified that he overheard her saying that a disembodied male voice<\/a> had told her she had no choice but to kill her children and then herself. Zeizel said he believed Clancy wasn\u2019t responsible for her actions because of her deep mental illness.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors called a rebuttal witness, forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun, who said he didn\u2019t believe Clancy had hallucinated voices.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that she said when I asked about what happened, is that in the course of strangling each child, she said, \u2018Go to God, baby. Go to God,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cThat was part of her expectation that she and the children would be together in heaven with God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a senior psychiatrist for the FBI\u2019s Behavioral Analysis Unit, testified for prosecutors<\/a> that Clancy \u201chad the capacity to know right from wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawyers got the last word<\/p>\n

After testimony was complete, each side got about an hour to make their closing argument to the jury.<\/p>\n

Reddington showed the jury a photograph of the Clancy family, looking happy, and a second one of Lindsay Clancy in the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow does this turn into this?\u201d Reddington asked. \u201cHow? Because of the damn medicine and the lousy medical care that she got.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague said criticizing the mental health system was \u201ca distraction.\u201d She said Clancy chose to kill her children because doing so would make it easier to kill herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was depressed. She was exhausted. She was done. She didn\u2019t want to try anymore. She felt damaged,\u201d Sprague said. \u201cBut those kids, those kids were her protective factor. Those kids were keeping her from ending her misery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) \u2014 Jurors in the closely watched Lindsay Clancy trial began deliberating this week \u2014 but…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1030846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[245,4219,57,210,4221,12588,1612,236901,2739,50,2737,61,67,132,68,8572],"class_list":["post-1030845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-children","tag-crime","tag-general-news","tag-health","tag-homicide","tag-juries","tag-latin-america","tag-lindsay-clancy","tag-massachusetts","tag-news","tag-rhode-island","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-violence"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117178588693353685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}