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Lindsay Clancy’s friends and former father-in-law testify in her murder trial
Дата публикации: 06-08-2026 12:45:13
"They [were] like the all-American family," Patrick Clancy's father, Christopher Clancy, told the jury.
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Crime "They [were] like the all-American family," Patrick Clancy's father, Christopher Clancy, told the jury.Share
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Scroll down for the Associated Press’s recap of Thursday’s testimony.
After Judge William Sullivan excused jurors for the day at about 2:45 p.m. Thursday, lawyers argued a defense motion to allow three doctors — Michael Vulfovich, Elizabeth Laposata, and Donald Condie — to testify. Sullivan took the motion under advisement.
Previously:
- Sgt. Andrew Chiachio, Massachusetts State Police
- Kyle Carney, works in finance, friend of Patrick Clancy and later the Clancy family
- Christopher Clancy, retired, Patrick Clancy’s father, Lindsay Clancy’s former father-in-law
- Amy Bevins, licensed behavior analyst, longtime friend of Lindsay Clancy dating back to childhood
- Bethany DeCollibus, licensed marriage and family therapist, friend of Lindsay Clancy
- Andrea Hennigan, labor and delivery registered nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, former co-worker of Lindsay Clancy
- Stephanie Williams, teacher at Learning Sprouts preschool and daycare in Duxbury, where Dawson and Cora Clancy went
- Susan Bertolo, former teacher at Learning Sprouts preschool and daycare in Duxbury, where Dawson and Cora Clancy went
- Susan Fraone, teacher at Learning Sprouts preschool and daycare in Duxbury, where Dawson and Cora Clancy went
- Dr. Lindsay Rosshirt, pediatrician at Quincy Pediatrics, formerly the Clancy family’s pediatrician at South Shore Medical Center
- Dr. Kimberley Springer, medical examiner at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Boston
Springer walked jurors through 8-month-old Callan Clancy’s autopsy, highlighting his injuries and ultimately noting the mechanism of his death was consistent with “ligature strangulation” and his cause of death was “complications of mechanical asphyxia.” Photos of the deceased infant were shown in the courtroom (not on the livestream), and Lindsay Clancy was visibly emotional throughout the testimony. She could be heard sobbing at times, including as she left the courtroom after Springer’s testimony concluded and Judge William Sullivan called for a “short break.”
Lindsay Clancy sobs during murder trial as jurors view autopsy photos of her youngest childBy Michael Casey, The Associated Press
Lindsay Clancy with her attorney, Kevin Reddington. – Screenshot via NBC 10 WJARPLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — Lindsay Clancy sobbed uncontrollably Thursday as jurors viewed autopsy photos of the youngest of her three children who she strangled in 2023, until the court eventually had to take an unscheduled break.
In the second week of her Massachusetts murder trial, prosecutors brought more friends, a former work colleague and her former father-in-law to testify about Clancy’s mental and emotional state. For the most part, they said she was open about her postpregnancy mental health struggles but seemed like a loving mother who cared for her kids.
The prosecution wants to show the 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse acted intentionally and should be held criminally responsible, while Clancy’s defense says she had postpartum psychosis, a rare and dangerous psychiatric condition that affects women’s hold on reality after childbirth.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.
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Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, who she killed on Jan. 24, 2023 after sending her husband out on errands. Prosecutors say this was a ruse to get her husband out of the house. She remains paralyzed from the waist down after jumping from the home’s second-story window that night.
A friend recalls a difficult reunion after the killings
Amy Bevins. – Screenshot via NBC 10 WJARNone of the witnesses Thursday testified they heard Clancy express suicidal or homicidal thoughts. However, after the birth of her third child, she told them of trouble sleeping and harmful side effects from medications. She text-messaged one childhood friend to say medication had “caused her to have some dark thoughts.”
Amy Bevins visited Clancy in a rehabilitation facility after the killings. The two made small talk, she said, and played a game. When asked by prosecutors if Clancy brought up her children or cried about them, she said she had not.
But on cross-examination by Clancy’s defense attorney, Bevins acknowledged the meeting was “awkward” and that Clancy’s sister had said not to bring up the kids.
Lindsay Clancy’s former father-in-law takes the stand
Christopher Clancy. – Screenshot via NBC 10 WJARChristopher Clancy testified that he knew his then-daughter-in-law was having issues. At one point, he suggested the grandchildren stay with him and his wife, but his son declined.
“I knew she was having a hard time sleeping,” Christopher Clancy said. “I knew she just didn’t feel well. I knew she went to the emergency room where my wife was working. Those types of struggles.”
Clancy’s lawyers don’t dispute that she killed the children. But in the criminal trial and a medical malpractice lawsuit, her attorneys say she had bipolar disorder that wasn’t fully diagnosed until after the killings. Her attorneys say her condition seemed to worsen on the psychiatric medications, some of them problematic for bipolar patients.
If convicted of murder, Lindsay Clancy faces life in prison without parole. If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.
Another case that echoes Clancy’s is going back to courtMeanwhile, the judge and the district attorney learned Thursday that they face a retrial in another case involving a mother’s mental state when she killed her two school-age children in 2018.
Massachusetts’ top court threw out Latarsha Sanders’ murder conviction in the stabbings of sons Edson “Marlon” Brito, 8, and La’son Brito, 5.
Sanders told police in a recorded interview that she stabbed the boys because “bad people” text-messaged her commands to carry out a “ritual” connected to “Voodoo stuff” and the Illuminati. The latter is a purported powerful secret society at the center of various conspiracy theories, and Sanders’ family said she had become obsessively fearful of it.
Like Clancy’s lawyers, Sanders’ defense argued she was mentally ill and shouldn’t be held criminally responsible, while prosecutors said she acted deliberately. Prosecutors noted that Sanders tried to clean up the bloody crime scene, initially denied killing the children, and had written, in a disjointed personal notebook, about wanting to write books and become famous.
A defense neuropsychologist diagnosed Sanders with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, among other conditions, and testified that she was “grossly psychotic” when she killed the children.
The appeal turns on psychiatric evidenceThe neuropsychologist was allowed to mention that he’d reviewed her medical records. But the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court faulted the judge for not letting jurors hear many specifics from the records, in which clinicians at a prison and a psychiatric hospital suggested similar diagnoses after Sanders’ arrest.
The doctors also noted that Sanders said she’d heard voices for decades, reported ongoing delusional and paranoid thoughts, and displayed odd behavior, such as licking windows.
Withholding the records from jurors “impermissibly stripped” the defense of its medical foundation, Justice Frank M. Gaziano wrote in a unanimous decision.
A message seeking comment was sent to a spokesperson for Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz, and messages were left for the judge, Superior Court Justice William Sullivan, through the court system.
Sanders’ lawyer, Robert F. Shaw Jr., welcomed the opinion and said he looked forward to retrying the case.
“The hope is that those records and that evidence will be able to be viewed by a jury with fresh eyes,” he said by phone. Sanders is in prison, and he hadn’t yet been able to meet with her to discuss the court ruling.
Her relatives told The Boston Globe last year that they hoped Clancy’s trial would generate more public scrutiny of Sanders’ case.
Additional witnesses are expected on the stand Thursday in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, one day after the Clancy family’s former nanny told jurors she was a “wonderful mother.”
Clancy is standing trial on three counts of first-degree murder as prosecutors allege she “deliberately and meticulously” killed her three children in 2023 because she had grown tired of motherhood.
More on Lindsay Clancy:
Now 35 years old, Clancy doesn’t deny that she strangled 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan at home in Duxbury on Jan. 24, 2023. But she’s raising what’s commonly known as an insanity defense as she argues she can’t be held criminally responsible because she was wracked by postpartum mental illness and heard a voice in her head instructing her to kill.
Elaine Rossi testified that Clancy was open about her postpartum mental health struggles and insomnia in the fall of 2022, while Rossi was working as the family’s part-time nanny. Still, Rossi maintained she never had concerns about the children’s welfare or Clancy’s interactions with them.
“I observed a wonderful mom who loved her kids,” Rossi testified. “She was very concerned with their safety. She was very concerned with Callan’s eating and sleeping. She was a wonderful mother.”
Also on the stand Wednesday was Justin Brower, a forensic toxicologist from NMS Laboratories who testified that Clancy had slightly elevated levels of the antipsychotic quetiapine, or Seroquel, in her blood the night of the killings.
Quetiapine was one of four psychiatric medications in Clancy’s system at the time, in addition to the antidepressant mirtazapine, mood stabilizer lamotrigine, and antidepressant trazodone. Nicholas Roberts, who previously worked for the Toxicology Unit within the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory, also testified that Clancy tested positive for benzodiazepines.
According to Brower, the amount of quetiapine in Clancy’s system was not at a toxic or suicidal level. Lawyers on both sides say Clancy consumed prescription psychiatric medications as part of a suicide attempt after strangling her children.
“Usually people take handfuls of pills when they’re trying to harm themselves and take their own life, and this is not consistent with that,” Brower testified.
He also confirmed the levels of lamotrigine, mirtazapine, and trazodone suggested the drugs had likely been used appropriately as prescribed. Prosecutors have accused Clancy of seeking a “quick and easy fix” when she began to struggle with her mental health, also suggesting Clancy was less than diligent with the various psychiatric medications she was prescribed in the months prior to the killings.
Lindsay Clancy enters the courtroom after a short break in the trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth on Aug. 5, 2026. – David L. Ryan/Boston Globe Staff
Abby Patkin is a general assignment news reporter whose work touches on public transit, crime, health, and everything in between. She has been covering the Lindsay Clancy murder case since January 2023.
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