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Mother of three Lindsay Clancy killed all her kids with ‘extreme atrocity and cruelty,’ prosecutors say, as she prepares for ‘insanity defense’ citing postpartum psychosis

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d132457d8030dd01ace54ad627e59366 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;210606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Mother-of-three Lindsay Clancy showed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;extreme atrocity and cruelty” when she killed her three kids with exercise bands prosecutors argued&comma; Thursday<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7da3bd9d58b9deda7f670425025850c0 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;210606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Lindsay Clancy&comma; 35&comma; is charged with three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation or suffocation in the deaths of her three young children <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-641c494d7f8f594e27459e93f9c9d6be wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;210606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The former nurse from Duxbury&comma; Massachusetts strangled Cora&comma; 5&comma; Dawson&comma; 3&comma; and 8-month-old Callan&comma; each with an exercise band around their necks&comma; <strong>on Jan&period; 24&comma; 20<&sol;strong>23 <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-438c17594d522c4b6b33b9e26dd80bc6 wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;210606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong><strong>She claims she was over-medicated and suffering from severe postpartum psychosis when she murdered her kids&comma; an<&sol;strong>d ”should not be found not guilty by reason of insanity”<&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5aaedde5486edfdc6bed62435bcf060a wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;210606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Defense application for separate trial to decide her competence to stand trial was turned down<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bcedc19ad46804481e84b45c292aba9f wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;210606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>However&comma; prosecutors argued that the killings were savage and deliberate<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6b22d9ccb9b9af7b60e4a8091e79bfdb wp-block-paragraph" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;210606&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong><strong>Following a failed suicide attempt she&&num;8217&semi;s now p<strong><strong>aralyzed from the waist down&comma; and being held at the Tewksbury State Hospital pending trial<&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;06&sol;Lindsay-Clancy-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-499124" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Lindsay Clancy&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; showed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;extreme atrocity and cruelty” when she killed her three kids &&num;8211&semi; two toddlers and an infant &&num;8211&semi; with exercise bands on Jan&period; 24&comma; 2023&comma; prosecutors argue&period; Following a failed suicide attempt she is now a paraplegic&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Lindsay Clancy&comma; a 35-year-old former midwife from Duxbury&comma; Massachusetts&comma; and mother-of-three showed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;extreme atrocity and cruelty” when she killed all her children with exercise bands&comma; prosecutors told the court on Thursday&period;<br>Clancy&comma; 35&comma; is charged with three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation or suffocation for allegedly <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;26&sol;massachusetts-midwife-strangles-her-kids-five-and-three-cops-reveal-her-husband-called-911-when-he-returned-from-work-and-found-her-outside-the-house-and-his-children-dead-inside&sol;">killing her three young children<&sol;a>&period; <br>Clancy has pled not guilty and has indicated she plans to use an insanity defense&comma; arguing she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis during the incident&period;<br>Evidence from the scene&comma; 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&comma; 2023&comma; suggests that the killings were savage and deliberate&comma; prosecutors allege&period;<br>Patrick Clancy was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher when he finally discovered Cora&comma; 5&comma; Dawson&comma; 3&comma; and 8-month-old Callan in the basement – and as police were headed down the stairs&comma; crying&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;She killed the kids&excl;” according to court papers from last week&period;<br>The father found their little children&comma; each with an exercise band around their necks&comma; but by the time first responders got to the basement&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;each band &lbrack;was&rsqb; lying next to each child&comma;” the filing alleges&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The brief time between finding each child and the fact that Mr&period; 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&comma; prosecutors claimed&period;<br>Instead&comma; the evidence suggested &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;she manually pulled the bands around each child’s neck until they died&comma;” showing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the deliberateness of her acts and the extreme atrocity and cruelty of her acts&comma;” the court papers alleged&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;06&sol;Lindsay-Clancy-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-499133" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Evidence&comma; prosecutors said&comma; Lindsay Clancy &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; suggested &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;she manually pulled the bands around each child’s neck until they died&comma;” showing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the deliberateness of her acts and the extreme atrocity and cruelty of her acts&period; <strong>Paralyzed from the waist down&comma; she is being held at the Tewksbury State Hospital pending trial<&sol;strong><&sol;strong> <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">After allegedly fatally strangling her three kids&comma; Cora&comma; Dawson and Callan&period; with an exercise band&comma; Lindsay Clancy paralyzed herself in a failed suicide bid&period; She sliced her own neck and wrists and jumping out of a second-story window at her home&period; <br>The aim was to avoid the consequences of her heinous crime&comma; a ploy aimed at keeping her out of prison<br>Defense for the mother accused of slaying all her children have advocated she face two separate trials&period; <br>Her team signaled that she would not to contest the facts of her alleged crime&period; However&comma; she should navigate a separate trial to determine if she was sane at the time of the slayings&comma; her lawyers argued&period; <br>If she were found mentally incompetent&comma; she would not have to go to prison&comma; defense have recommend that she be committed to a mental institution&period;<br>The mom claims she was over-medicated and suffering from severe postpartum psychosis when she murdered her kids&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The defendant is willing to stipulate formally in writing to her involvement in the underlying conduct resulting in the death of the three children&comma;” Clancy’s lawyer&comma; Kevin Reddington&comma; wrote in a court filing in March&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With that understanding&comma; 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&period;”<br>Reddington re-opened his pitch after a judge already rejected his bid to have Clancy’s July 20 trial split into two parts&period;<br>Judge William Sullivan in the earlier ruling&comma; wrote&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A single trial of all issues will be the most efficient and least confusing way to present this case to a jury&period;”<br>Reddington then asked the judge to reconsider his ruling if Clancy agreed to admit to the slayings&period;<br>Reddington is not suggesting his client would enter a guilty plea&comma; rather she would agree to facts at trial that she killed the kids&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2026&sol;06&sol;Patrick-and-Lindsay-Clancy-with-two-of-her-children-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-499136" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Patrick and Lindsay Clancy with their children whom she killed in Jan 2023&period; Lindsay<strong> claims she was over-medicated and suffering from severe postpartum psychosis when she murdered her kids&comma; an<&sol;strong>d ”should not be found not guilty by reason of insanity”<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Prosecutors revealed the evidence as they sought for Patrick’s 911 call to be admitted into Lindsay’s July trial&comma; claiming it’s a critical piece of evidence in helping to prove their case&period;<br>A lawyer for Lindsay Clancy has said they don’t plan to dispute that she carried performed the stipulated acts&comma; choosing to argue she was over-medicated and suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time&period;<br>She is planning to ask a jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity&period;<br>Both Lindsay and Patrick have filed lawsuits against the doctors who were treating Lindsay claiming they <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;courttv&period;com&sol;news&sol;lindsay-clancy-details-moments-of-kids-murders-in-new-lawsuit&sol;">failed to properly diagnose her and gave her the wrong treatments<&sol;a>&period;Clancy&comma; now a paraplegic&comma; is being held at the Tewksbury State Hospital pending trial&period;<br>The mom in the lawsuit against her doctors in a lawsuit&comma; 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&comma; such as Zoloft&comma; trazodone&comma; Prozac&comma; Ambien&comma; Remeron&comma; Klonopin&comma; Seroquel&comma; Ativan&comma; Valium&comma; and Lamictal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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