Mother-of-three Lindsay Clancy showed “extreme atrocity and cruelty” when she killed her three kids with exercise bands prosecutors argued, Thursday

Lindsay Clancy, 35, is charged with three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation or suffocation in the deaths of her three young children

The former nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan, each with an exercise band around their necks, on Jan. 24, 2023

She claims she was over-medicated and suffering from severe postpartum psychosis when she murdered her kids, and ”should not be found not guilty by reason of insanity”

Defense application for separate trial to decide her competence to stand trial was turned down

However, prosecutors argued that the killings were savage and deliberate

Following a failed suicide attempt she’s now paralyzed from the waist down, and being held at the Tewksbury State Hospital pending trial

Lindsay Clancy, [photo], showed “extreme atrocity and cruelty” when she killed her three kids – two toddlers and an infant – with exercise bands on Jan. 24, 2023, prosecutors argue. Following a failed suicide attempt she is now a paraplegic.

Lindsay Clancy, a 35-year-old former midwife from Duxbury, Massachusetts, and mother-of-three showed “extreme atrocity and cruelty” when she killed all her children with exercise bands, prosecutors told the court on Thursday.
Clancy, 35, is charged with three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation or suffocation for allegedly killing her three young children.
Clancy has pled not guilty and has indicated she plans to use an insanity defense, arguing she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis during the incident.
Evidence from the scene, including the fact that her husband Patrick Clancy was able to quickly remove the bands from his children’s throats after finding them dead at their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023, suggests that the killings were savage and deliberate, prosecutors allege.
Patrick Clancy was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher when he finally discovered Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan in the basement – and as police were headed down the stairs, crying, “She killed the kids!” according to court papers from last week.
The father found their little children, each with an exercise band around their necks, but by the time first responders got to the basement, “each band [was] lying next to each child,” the filing alleges.
“The brief time between finding each child and the fact that Mr. Clancy was able to remove each band so quickly” suggested the theory that Lindsay may have tied the bands in a knot and walked away couldn’t be true, prosecutors claimed.
Instead, the evidence suggested “she manually pulled the bands around each child’s neck until they died,” showing “the deliberateness of her acts and the extreme atrocity and cruelty of her acts,” the court papers alleged.

Evidence, prosecutors said, Lindsay Clancy [photo], suggested “she manually pulled the bands around each child’s neck until they died,” showing “the deliberateness of her acts and the extreme atrocity and cruelty of her acts. Paralyzed from the waist down, she is being held at the Tewksbury State Hospital pending trial

After allegedly fatally strangling her three kids, Cora, Dawson and Callan. with an exercise band, Lindsay Clancy paralyzed herself in a failed suicide bid. She sliced her own neck and wrists and jumping out of a second-story window at her home.
The aim was to avoid the consequences of her heinous crime, a ploy aimed at keeping her out of prison
Defense for the mother accused of slaying all her children have advocated she face two separate trials.
Her team signaled that she would not to contest the facts of her alleged crime. However, she should navigate a separate trial to determine if she was sane at the time of the slayings, her lawyers argued.
If she were found mentally incompetent, she would not have to go to prison, defense have recommend that she be committed to a mental institution.
The mom claims she was over-medicated and suffering from severe postpartum psychosis when she murdered her kids.
“The defendant is willing to stipulate formally in writing to her involvement in the underlying conduct resulting in the death of the three children,” Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, wrote in a court filing in March.
“With that understanding, the defendant submits that the only live issue for consideration at trial would be the defendant’s state of mind as it relates to the defense of lack of Camilla responsibility.”
Reddington re-opened his pitch after a judge already rejected his bid to have Clancy’s July 20 trial split into two parts.
Judge William Sullivan in the earlier ruling, wrote, “A single trial of all issues will be the most efficient and least confusing way to present this case to a jury.”
Reddington then asked the judge to reconsider his ruling if Clancy agreed to admit to the slayings.
Reddington is not suggesting his client would enter a guilty plea, rather she would agree to facts at trial that she killed the kids.

Patrick and Lindsay Clancy with their children whom she killed in Jan 2023. Lindsay claims she was over-medicated and suffering from severe postpartum psychosis when she murdered her kids, and ”should not be found not guilty by reason of insanity”

Prosecutors revealed the evidence as they sought for Patrick’s 911 call to be admitted into Lindsay’s July trial, claiming it’s a critical piece of evidence in helping to prove their case.
A lawyer for Lindsay Clancy has said they don’t plan to dispute that she carried performed the stipulated acts, choosing to argue she was over-medicated and suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time.
She is planning to ask a jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity.
Both Lindsay and Patrick have filed lawsuits against the doctors who were treating Lindsay claiming they failed to properly diagnose her and gave her the wrong treatments.Clancy, now a paraplegic, is being held at the Tewksbury State Hospital pending trial.
The mom in the lawsuit against her doctors in a lawsuit, is claiming they didn’t catch that she was suffering from bipolar disorder and at the same time prescribed her up with myriad drugs from October to December of 2022, such as Zoloft, trazodone, Prozac, Ambien, Remeron, Klonopin, Seroquel, Ativan, Valium, and Lamictal.