Overview
- On Jan. 24, 2023, three children — Cora, Dawson and eight‑month‑old Callan — were strangled at the family home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, and their mother, Lindsay Clancy, later attempted suicide and was left paralyzed.
- The defense rested its case last week and the prosecution has begun calling rebuttal witnesses, setting the trial up for closing arguments and jury deliberations on whether Clancy is criminally responsible.
- Prosecution rebuttal psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack told jurors that Clancy recounted hearing a male voice telling her to “kill the kids so you can kill yourself,” that she said “go to God” while strangling, and that the killings were carried out in an organized, methodical way.
- Defense expert Dr. Phillip Resnick testified that Clancy met criteria for severe postpartum psychosis, described an external command that overtook her, and said rapid medication changes and polypharmacy worsened her condition so she could not conform her conduct to the law.
- If the jury finds Clancy guilty of first‑degree murder she faces life without parole; a finding of not criminally responsible would send her to a secure state psychiatric hospital, and the case has prompted wider scrutiny of perinatal mental‑health care, telehealth prescribing and sealed forensic evidence used at trial.