Overview
- Opening statements began Monday, July 27, in Plymouth Superior Court and an 18-member jury was seated to hear the case.
- Prosecutors say Clancy sent her husband out, researched timing and used exercise bands to strangle the three children in the basement before trying to kill herself.
- The defense acknowledges the deaths but says Clancy was in a psychotic state driven by postpartum illness, reported command hallucinations, and a regimen of psychiatric drugs.
- Patrick Clancy, the children’s father and the prosecution’s first witness, described Lindsay’s mental decline and testified Monday about the days and events leading up to the killings.
- Judge William Sullivan has limited public access to some graphic evidence and the trial will feature weeks of dueling psychiatric and forensic experts with the outcome deciding life in prison or involuntary commitment.