Overview
- Prosecutors say Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children at their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023, then attempted suicide and was left paralyzed from the waist down.
- This week jurors heard detailed autopsy testimony describing brain and eye injuries consistent with ligature strangulation and were shown the bloodstained clothing Clancy wore the night of the killings.
- Police and medical witnesses testified about exercise resistance bands on the children’s necks and scene evidence that prosecutors argue shows planning and deliberate action.
- The defense is pursuing a not‑guilty‑by‑reason‑of‑insanity case that centers on rapid‑onset postpartum psychosis, extensive medication changes and telehealth treatment decisions that it says incapacitated Clancy.
- The outcome will determine whether Clancy faces life in prison if convicted or civil commitment to a state hospital if found not criminally responsible, and parallel malpractice suits against her providers will continue to press questions about perinatal mental‑health care and medication management.