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Mass. High Court Orders New Trial In 2018 Child Killings As Clancy Case Proceeds
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday ordered a new trial for Latarsha Sanders in a 2018 Brockton child-killings case, a ruling that landed as Lindsay Clancy's Plymouth Superior Court murder trial continued.[1]
The high court said Judge William F. Sullivan improperly limited Sanders's insanity defense by barring defense experts from citing details in her psychiatric records.[1] Sanders's excluded records included reports of paranoid delusions, auditory hallucinations and other psychotic symptoms, the court noted — and the Sanders case was tried in the same Plymouth County court overseen by Sullivan and the same district attorney handling the Clancy prosecution.[1]
Lindsay Clancy admits killing her three children on January 24, 2023, and has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, a defense that would lead to psychiatric commitment rather than prison if accepted.[2] Jurors have heard Patrick Clancy's six-minute 911 call in which he finds a bloodied bedroom and then shouts, "She killed the kids," after locating the three children strangled with exercise bands.[3] First responders testified they found Lindsay Clancy drifting in and out of consciousness in the snow after a second-story jump that left her paralyzed from the waist down, and that only the youngest child had a faint pulse when CPR began.[4] Jurors also visited the Duxbury home and were driven past the restaurant and pharmacy Patrick Clancy stopped at that night to test the timeline presented in court.[5]
Early news coverage and prosecutorial argument stressed the 911 audio and framed the killings as a calculated decision, with prosecutors presenting physical evidence and witness accounts to show intent.[3] More recent testimony and reporting have dug deeper into Clancy's mental-health history, including a nearly five-day McLean Hospital stay in January 2023, diary entries about severe insomnia and "crazy brain fog," and disputed changes to her psychiatric medications in the weeks before the killings.[6]
The Sanders ruling underscores judicial limits on excluding psychiatric records and expert testimony in insanity defenses, a legal point now highlighted as similar questions play out in Plymouth Superior Court.[1] Clancy's trial remains active with psychiatrists, first responders and other witnesses testifying as the jury continues weighing criminal responsibility.[7]
The mainstream summary emphasizes the legal proceedings surrounding Lindsay Clancy's trial and the new developments in Latarsha Sanders's case, but it overlooks critical perspectives on how custody courts and family systems may have contributed to these tragedies. Naomi Schaefer Riley argues that family and custody courts often prioritize procedural norms over child safety, leading to preventable outcomes. She highlights that existing practices inadequately consider prior warning signs, such as domestic violence and abrupt medication changes, which could inform custody decisions and risk assessments. This critique suggests that the legal narratives presented in the mainstream coverage may downplay systemic failures that compromise child welfare in favor of focusing solely on individual cases and defenses.
Additionally, while the mainstream account frames Clancy's actions through the lens of her mental health, Riley points out that such narratives can unintentionally deflect scrutiny from real risk factors. The emphasis on postpartum psychosis and medication changes, as highlighted by the defense, may obscure the broader issues of how courts assess parental fitness and respond to mental health crises. This perspective invites a deeper discussion about the adequacy of current legal frameworks in protecting children from potential harm within familial settings.[8]
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📌 Key Facts
- Lindsay Clancy, who admits killing her three children on January 24, 2023, is on trial in Plymouth Superior Court and has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility; if convicted she faces life without parole, while a finding of lack of criminal responsibility would result in commitment to a state mental‑health facility (Lindsay Clancy).
- Jurors heard Patrick Clancy's six‑minute 911 call played in court on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in which he reports finding his wife injured outside, enters the basement and shouts “She killed the kids” after locating the three children strangled with exercise bands (Patrick Clancy's 911 call).
- First responders testified they found Lindsay Clancy drifting in and out of consciousness in the snow after she jumped from a second‑story window—leaving her paralyzed from the waist down—and that only 8‑month‑old Callan had a faint pulse when CPR began while the other children were found strangled in the basement with exercise bands (first responders).
- On Friday, July 31, 2026, jurors were escorted in groups to view the Duxbury home—inspecting the basement where the children died and the second‑story window Clancy jumped from—and were driven past the ThreeV restaurant and the Kingston CVS to test the timeline of Patrick Clancy's errands that evening (Duxbury home).
- The defense highlights a nearly five‑day psychiatric hospitalization at McLean Hospital (January 1–5, 2023), diary entries describing escalating insomnia, 'crazy brain fog' and desperation, and claims clinicians cycled Clancy through multiple antidepressants and other medications in the weeks before the killings that may have worsened postpartum psychosis (McLean Hospital).
- Massachusetts State Police testified they found four prescription pill bottles in a kitchen cabinet and prosecutors compared prescribed quantities to remaining pills to argue Clancy had not been taking medications, while the defense says those prescriptions formed an overmedicating "cocktail"—and a forensic toxicologist later testified blood levels were consistent with therapeutic, not suicidal, ranges (four prescription pill bottles).
- Medical testimony described Clancy being intubated and partially paralyzed when seen at Brigham & Women's Hospital (questions about her condition included delirium and visual hallucinations possibly related to anesthesia or low oxygen), and surgeons described complex spinal injuries from her fall and subsequent transfer for higher‑level care (Brigham & Women's Hospital).
- On Thursday, August 6, 2026, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously ordered a new trial for Latarsha Sanders — ruling that Judge William F. Sullivan improperly restricted the defendant’s insanity defense — a decision noted for its parallels because Sanders’s case was tried in the same Plymouth County court with the same judge and the same district attorney overseeing the Clancy prosecution (Latarsha Sanders).
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Custody Courts’ Deadly Blind Spots
"The City Journal piece critiques how custody courts and the surrounding medical/legal machinery missed warning signs in cases like the Lindsay Clancy story, arguing the system too readily privileges parental access and medical explanations (e.g., postpartum psychosis, therapeutic drug ranges) over standardized child‑safety assessments and therefore needs reforms to prevent future child fatalities."
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August 07, 2026
6:56 PM
Lindsay Clancy trial spotlights psychiatric hospital stay before she killed her 3 children
New information:
- On Friday, August 7, 2026, McLean Hospital psychiatrist Dr. Alia Goodheart testified about Lindsay Clancy's nearly five-day psychiatric hospitalization beginning on January 1, 2023.
- Goodheart told jurors she diagnosed Clancy with insomnia with a mental health condition, tapered an antipsychotic that was causing emotional numbness, and discharged her on January 5, 2023, with an antianxiety medication and sleep aid.
- During the hospital stay, Clancy reported prior suicidal thoughts but denied current intent and said her children, family, and mother were reasons not to kill herself, and she did not state any thoughts of harming others.
- Goodheart testified that Clancy expressed eagerness to leave in time for a belated birthday party for her daughter Cora and had arranged follow-up outpatient care before discharge.
- Defense questioning highlighted that Clancy had cycled through multiple providers for months, raised concerns about medications, and disputed an earlier outpatient suggestion that she might have bipolar disorder when she entered McLean.
August 06, 2026
8:53 PM
Retrial Ordered in Child Killing With Parallels to Lindsay Clancy Case
New information:
- On Thursday, August 6, 2026, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court unanimously ordered a new trial for Latarsha Sanders, who was convicted in 2022 of murdering her two sons in Brockton in 2018.
- The court held that Judge William F. Sullivan improperly restricted Sanders’s insanity defense by barring defense experts from citing details in her psychiatric medical records unless prosecutors first “opened the door.”
- Those excluded records documented symptoms such as paranoid delusions, incoherent speech, bizarre behavior including licking windows, and Sanders’s reports of long‑standing auditory hallucinations; a neuropsychologist had concluded she was “grossly psychotic” and unable to appreciate the criminality of her conduct at the time of the killings.
- The Sanders case was tried in the same Plymouth County court where Lindsay Clancy is now on trial, with the same judge, William F. Sullivan, and the same district attorney, Timothy Cruz, overseeing both prosecutions.
- The ruling comes on the eighth day of testimony in Clancy’s trial, which centers on whether she is criminally responsible for the January 24, 2023 strangulation deaths of her three children amid alleged postpartum psychosis.
5:38 PM
Former Clancy nanny testifies about mother's mental health issues before killings
New information:
- On Wednesday, August 5, 2026, former nanny Elaine Rossi testified that months before the January 24, 2023 killings, Lindsay Clancy lost significant weight, could not sleep, and complained of postpregnancy mental health issues, but Rossi never feared Clancy might harm herself or her children.
- Rossi described Clancy to jurors as a "wonderful mom" who loved her children, was concerned about their safety, and closely monitored baby Callan's eating and sleeping.
- Rossi said she saw prescription medicine bottles in the house and that Clancy told her she had postpartum issues and was sleeping in the basement because she could not sleep.
- The article details diary excerpts presented to the jury in which Clancy wrote about "crazy brain fog," living "moment to moment waiting for the next nap time," feeling overwhelmed, unable to make plans, and desperate for a mental break from caring for her family.
- The piece reiterates that Clancy's lawyers do not dispute she killed her three children on January 24, 2023, but argue she had bipolar disorder that was only fully diagnosed after the killings and may have been worsened by certain psychiatric medications.
- The article notes that multiple state police crime lab officials testified this week that Clancy had antipsychotics, antidepressants, and benzodiazepines in her blood after the killings, and that she remains paralyzed from the waist down after jumping from a second-story window that night.
August 05, 2026
10:10 PM
Clancy family nanny testifies that Lindsay was "a wonderful mom"
New information:
- On Wednesday, August 5, 2026, the Clancy family's former nanny, Elaine Rossi, testified that Lindsay Clancy was a 'wonderful mom' who loved her children and was very concerned about their safety, eating and sleeping.
- Rossi said she worked for the family from September 2022 through early December 2022 after responding to a July 2022 Facebook job posting, primarily caring for baby Callan three days a week and noticing prescription bottles and Clancy's disclosure that she was suffering from postpartum illness.
- Rossi told jurors and previously told Massachusetts State Police that she had 'no concerns' about Clancy’s interactions with the children and acknowledged she 'did love Lindsay.'
- Forensic toxicologist Dr. Justin Brower testified that the amounts of drugs in Lindsay Clancy’s blood were consistent with therapeutic levels and not a 'suicidal level,' saying the findings were not typical of someone taking 'handfuls of pills' to end their life while agreeing numbers alone do not tell the full story.
- Physician assistant Eitan Negri of Brigham and Women's Hospital testified that when he treated Clancy in 2023 she had multiple lacerations on her wrists and superficial neck cuts, with no active bleeding, supporting prosecutors' argument that her post-homicide self-inflicted wounds were not a serious suicide attempt.
- Judge William Sullivan abruptly called a roughly 20-minute break at about 10:12 a.m. on August 5 while the forensic toxicologist was testifying about drugs found in Clancy's blood, though no reason for the interruption was given.
- The article notes that testimony for Day 7 of the trial ended at around noon on August 5.
August 04, 2026
3:41 PM
Watch Live: Lindsay Clancy murder trial focuses on prescription pills
New information:
- On Tuesday, August 4, 2026, the sixth day of trial, Massachusetts State Police Lt. Joseph Rabbit testified that he found four prescription pill bottles in a kitchen cabinet at the Duxbury home and that Patrick Clancy later brought additional pill bottles to the district attorney's office on February 6, 2023.
- Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham methodically compared the number of pills prescribed to the number remaining in each bottle, supporting the prosecution's argument that Lindsay Clancy had not been taking many of the prescribed mental-health medications.
- Defense attorney Kevin Reddington highlighted that the prescriptions in question were issued over roughly a three-week period and argued they formed an overmedicating "cocktail" that allegedly triggered postpartum psychosis.
- South Shore Hospital general surgeon Dr. Cristina Karpio testified that Lindsay Clancy suffered complex spinal injuries from her January 24, 2023 fall out of a second-story window and required transfer to Brigham & Women's Hospital, as the defense sought to rebut the prosecution's claim that the suicide attempt was faked.
- During cross-examination, Reddington elicited that Dr. Karpio did not know Clancy had coded and required massive transfusions shortly after arrival at Brigham & Women's Hospital, evidence the defense cited to underscore the seriousness of the injuries.
- Before the jury entered on August 4, 2026, Lindsay Clancy was sworn and agreed on the record to a "stipulation of facts" that, according to her attorney, will eliminate the need for the government to call numerous witnesses about chain of custody for blood, fluids, exercise bands, DNA, and related forensic evidence.
- The court and parties did not immediately specify which facts are covered by the stipulation, but defense counsel said it will avoid multiple days of technical testimony.
- The article confirms that by the end of the fifth trial day the jury had heard from 32 witnesses, and that Clancy admits killing her children while claiming lack of criminal responsibility due to postpartum psychosis.
2:59 PM
Lindsay Clancy chronicled her desperation and 'brain fog' in her diary before the killings
New information:
- On Monday, August 3, 2026, both prosecutors and defense read additional pages from Lindsay Clancy's journal describing her escalating anxiety, insomnia, guilt about not breastfeeding, and 'crazy brain fog' in the months before the January 2023 killings.
- The article details specific diary passages, including a November 18, 2022 entry where Clancy wrote, 'I'm so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to find something physically wrong with me.'
- New reporting ties the diary content to malpractice allegations that, in the three months before the killings, various clinicians cycled Clancy through multiple antidepressants, sleep aids and an antipsychotic while she reported worsening symptoms.
- The piece recounts that Clancy checked into a postpartum depression program in late December 2022, was told to taper off an antipsychotic, then was discharged after a day, and later admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital on New Year's Eve 2022.
- According to the article, Clancy's lawsuit says her psychiatrist's last appointment with her before the killings was a 17-minute session on January 23, 2023.
- The article reports that on January 24, 2023, Clancy believed a commanding voice told her 'kill the children so you can kill yourself,' according to her lawyers, and that prosecutors characterize her request that her husband run errands that evening as a ploy to get him out of the house.
- The article reiterates key crime-scene details as presented in testimony: Patrick Clancy's 911 call upon finding a bloodied bedroom, an open window, Lindsay on the ground outside, and the three children in the basement strangled with exercise bands.
- Doctors testified Monday that 8‑month‑old Callan arrived at a Plymouth hospital in cardiac arrest on January 24, 2023, was placed on a ventilator at Boston Children's Hospital, and died three days later.
- Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham is quoted telling jurors in an opening statement that 'This is not a public debate about women's mental health and how the medical system treats women,' underscoring the state's effort to keep focus on Clancy's criminal responsibility.
- The article restates the trial stakes: if convicted of murder Clancy faces life without parole; if found not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.
August 03, 2026
9:08 PM
Lindsay Clancy's diary excerpts read at trial: "I feel like I'm drowning"
New information:
- On Monday, August 3, 2026, prosecutors read multiple excerpts from Lindsay Clancy's diary, seized under a search warrant, including entries where she wrote she felt 'completely overwhelmed,' 'like I'm drowning every day,' and 'I want help. I want to be well.'
- Diary passages presented to the jury included Clancy describing 'horrible insomnia and anxiety which is causing depression,' lack of appetite, 'crazy brain fog,' feeling 'completely disconnected' from her baby, and feeling 'horribly guilty' about her marriage and wanting to reconnect with her husband Pat.
- Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jhilam Biswas testified about a 20‑ to 30‑minute visit with Clancy at Brigham & Women's Hospital on January 26, 2023, when Clancy was intubated and partially paralyzed; asked about her mood, Clancy wrote 'horrified' on paper and appeared very anxious.
- Dr. Biswas testified that among Clancy's first written questions during that January 26, 2023 hospital visit were whether she had an attorney, whether her body was broken, whether her legs were straight, and whether she could have visitors and see her family.
- Brigham & Women's psychiatrist Dr. Sejal Shah testified she first saw Clancy on January 29, 2023, when Clancy requested a change of health-care proxy from her then‑husband Patrick to her parents, and reported initial delirium and some visual hallucinations in the hospital that Dr. Shah said could be related to anesthesia and low oxygen.
- Dr. Shah testified that in a February 21, 2023 meeting before Clancy was transferred to a rehabilitation hospital, Clancy reported feeling 'down' about her situation and said that thoughts about what she had done were not constant throughout each day.
4:07 PM
Trial of Lindsay Clancy, the mom who killed her 3 children, enters second week of testimony
New information:
- On Monday, August 3, 2026, Lindsay Clancy's murder trial resumed for a second week of testimony in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- Emergency room physicians testified that 5-year-old Cora arrived at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center-Plymouth with no heartbeat and was declared dead soon after.
- Doctors said 8-month-old Callan was "cold on arrival," limp, showed signs of brain swelling, required a ventilator but initially had a heartbeat, and died three days after the January 2023 stranglings.
- The article details the defense narrative that Clancy believed a commanding voice told her on January 24, 2023 to "kill the children so you can kill yourself," framing this as evidence of postpartum psychosis.
- Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham told jurors in opening statements that the case is not a public debate over women's mental health but about Clancy's criminal responsibility for intentionally killing her children.
- The piece reiterates that if convicted of murder Clancy faces life without parole, while a not-guilty finding for lack of criminal responsibility would send her to a state mental-health facility.
10:00 AM
Lindsay Clancy jurors visit crime scene in Karen Read-style move to test timeline: Retired judge
New information:
- Article reiterates that on Friday, July 31, 2026, jurors were driven past the ThreeV restaurant in Plymouth and the CVS pharmacy in Kingston that Patrick Clancy visited on Jan. 24, 2023, before touring the Duxbury home.
- Retired Massachusetts judge and Boston College law professor Jack Lu told Fox News Digital that jury views are effectively standard in Massachusetts homicide cases, saying that in a homicide case they are 'always, always going to do a view.'
- Lu said the key value of the jury view is helping jurors dissect the amount of time involved in Patrick Clancy's trip to CVS and understand 'what kind of time that Ms. Clancy had' after he left, while cautioning that the view is not obviously crucial and mainly provides context.
- The article explicitly analogizes the Clancy jury view to the jury site visit conducted during Karen Read's 2025 Massachusetts retrial, presenting it as a similar procedural step.
July 31, 2026
10:29 PM
Doctors testify in Lindsay Clancy trial, jury views home where 3 kids were killed
New information:
- On Friday, July 31, 2026, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial spent Day 4 starting with a court-ordered visit to the former Duxbury home where she killed her three children, inspecting the basement and all rooms on the first and second floors as well as the exterior.
- Jurors were barred from opening closets or touching items in the house but were specifically able to see the second-story bedroom window from which Clancy jumped after the killings and to understand the number of steps between the basement crime scene and that room.
- Before arriving at the house on July 31, 2026, jurors were driven past the ThreeV restaurant in Plymouth where Patrick Clancy picked up takeout and the Kingston, Massachusetts CVS where he bought medicine for Cora on the night of January 24, 2023.
- Duxbury Sgt. Marcanthony Maffeo testified that at South Shore Hospital Clancy appeared sedated and unconscious with several lacerations on her arms and neck, and jurors were shown close-up photographs of those injuries.
- During cross-examination, Maffeo confirmed there was blood on Clancy’s clothes and throughout the bedroom and that a bloody knife was found on a nightstand in that room.
- Duxbury Officer Richard Lippard testified he was assigned to guard Clancy at South Shore Hospital, described her as sedated and not speaking, and said he rode with her by medical helicopter to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where no visitors were allowed.
- Emergency physician Dr. Mark Tenerowicz testified that 3-year-old Dawson arrived at Beth Israel Plymouth on January 24, 2023, without breathing or a pulse and that staff attempted resuscitation for roughly 40 minutes before pronouncing him dead, concluding his heart would not restart.
5:56 PM
Jurors in Lindsay Clancy's trial visit the home where she killed her children
New information:
- On Friday, July 31, 2026, jurors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial were taken to the Duxbury, Massachusetts home where she strangled her three children and to two nearby businesses relevant to the case narrative.
- Jurors, escorted in groups of six, viewed the interior of the house including the basement where the children died and the yard where Clancy was found after jumping from a second-story window; the visit lasted roughly 40 minutes.
- The panel also retraced then-husband Patrick Clancy's route on the night of the killings, passing the restaurant about 5.5 miles from the home and the pharmacy about 1 mile away where he went for takeout food and medicine.
- Journalists were barred from the property by police barricades, and court officers supervised the jurors' movements while noting that the house now has a new owner.
- The article explains that such supervised jury site visits are rare but have been allowed in other high-profile U.S. cases including those of Alex Murdaugh, Nikolas Cruz, Aaron Hernandez and O.J. Simpson.
July 30, 2026
9:02 PM
First responders testify in Lindsay Clancy murder trial
New information:
- CBS aired a segment on Thursday, July 30, 2026, focusing on that day's first-responder testimony in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial.
- The segment emphasizes that Lindsay Clancy has admitted killing her three children but has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder.
- It notes that Thursday’s court session featured multiple first responders describing what they encountered at the Duxbury home as part of the prosecution’s case.
4:48 PM
First responders testify about what they found after Lindsay Clancy killed her children
New information:
- On Thursday, July 30, 2026, first responders including Officers Stephen Hall and Brian Josephine and fire supervisor PJ Hussey testified in Plymouth Superior Court about what they encountered at the Clancy home in January 2023.
- Hall and Josephine said they first found Lindsay Clancy lying in the snow behind the Duxbury house, drifting in and out of consciousness after jumping from a second-story window in a suicide attempt that left her paralyzed from the waist down.
- The officers testified that Patrick Clancy ran into the house after briefly speaking with his wife, then screamed and told them, "I can't wake them up — I can't get them up!" when they reached the basement.
- Officer Josephine said that when they reached the children only 8‑month‑old Callan had a faint pulse, and that, based on his training and prior incidents, he "knew it wasn't going to be good" as they began CPR with firefighters.
- Fire supervisor PJ Hussey testified he saw, through a basement window, Patrick Clancy trying to remove an exercise band from one of the children's necks, and described the scene as becoming "very chaotic very quickly" as more ambulances arrived.
- The article reiterates that Lindsay Clancy used multiple methods to try to kill herself and that she remains paralyzed, and it again notes that on the day of the killings her lawyer says she reported hearing a voice telling her, "This is your last chance. Kill the children so you can kill yourself."
3:06 PM
Jury hears chilling 911 call from Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband in murder trial
New information:
- The CBS video segment, published Thursday, July 30, 2026, reiterates that jurors in Lindsay Clancy's Massachusetts murder trial heard the 911 call from her ex-husband Patrick Clancy in which he reports finding their three children.
- The piece confirms that the 911 audio and "key testimonies" are being presented together as part of the prosecution's case-in-chief in Plymouth Superior Court.
12:21 AM
Lindsay Clancy murder trial centers on ex's 911 call: "She killed the kids"
New information:
- On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, jurors in Plymouth Superior Court heard Patrick Clancy's full six-minute 911 call in which he discovers his wife injured outside and then finds their three children strangled inside the Duxbury home.
- The article details that in the 911 call Patrick Clancy is heard asking, "Lindsay, what did you do?" and later shouting, "I need help in the basement right now ... She killed the kids" after locating the children.
- Prosecutors presented the children's pajamas and the exercise bands allegedly used to strangle 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan, while Lindsay Clancy kept her head down and later audibly sobbed as the call played.
- Patrick Clancy testified that upon entering the basement on January 24, 2023, he found Cora face down with an exercise band around her neck, then saw Callan with a band around his neck nearby, and found Dawson in his office with a band around his neck, attempting CPR on them as he realized they were likely dead.
- The piece reiterates that prosecutors allege Lindsay Clancy made a "calculated decision" to kill the children, while the defense argues she was overmedicated and suffering severe postpartum psychosis and suicidal ideation in the months leading up to the killings.
July 29, 2026
4:19 PM
Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband testifies about the day she killed their 3 children
New information:
- On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in Plymouth Superior Court, jurors again listened to Patrick Clancy's frantic 911 call while prosecutors played it during his testimony about returning home to find his three children dead.
- Patrick Clancy testified that shortly before the killings he spoke with Lindsay by phone while at the pharmacy, describing her as quiet and seeming busy, and that he returned to a silent house before finding blood in the main bedroom and his wife severely injured from a suicide attempt.
- He told jurors Lindsay Clancy, paralyzed from the waist down after jumping from a second-story window, directed him to the children in the basement but did not say they were dead; the children had been strangled with exercise bands.
- The article reiterates that Lindsay Clancy's defense centers on postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder allegedly worsened by antidepressants, and notes she killed the children 19 days after being discharged from a psychiatric hospital where she had been treated for postpregnancy mood disorders.
- Background in the piece emphasizes that postpartum psychosis is rare—affecting an estimated 1 to 2 per 1,000 women after delivery—and distinguishes it from more common postpartum depression, with bipolar disorder cited as a frequent underlying risk factor.