Eighteen jurors will hear opening arguments Monday at the triple murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother and labor and delivery nurse who fatally strangled her three young children in 2023.
Lawyers for Clancy, 35, have argued she is not criminally responsible for killing Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and extreme mental illness when she killed them and then tried to take her own life, leaving her paralyzed.
Clancy’s ex-husband, Patrick Clancy — who divorced Lindsay after the murders, remarried and has a new baby, but has staunchly defended her — is expected to be the first of 200 witnesses to testify.
“I wasn’t married to a monster,” Patrick said in a 2024 interview. “I was married to someone who got sick.”
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Accused murderer Lindsay Clancy entered the Plymouth, Mass., courtroom shortly before 9:30 a.m. local time, wearing a light pink blouse and accompanied by two medical assistants, according to a commentator and courtroom insider for NBC Boston, who is in the room.
Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband, Patrick — married to her when she killed their three young children — is expected to be the first of 200 witnesses to take the stand after opening statements in the murder trial Monday.
The heart-wrenching case hinges on the rare, severe psychiatric diagnosis of postpartum psychosis — a little-understood illness that afflicts a very small percentage of women and can cause delusions and hallucinations after childbirth.
A total of 18 jurors (including six alternates) will decide whether they agree with Clancy's lawyers that the mom of three is not criminally responsible for the deaths of her children because she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis, despite undergoing medical treatment.
Horrific details in the case of accused murderous Massachusetts mom Lindsay Clancy, who fatally strangled her three young children, will begin pouring out in court this week.
Clancy’s legal team and the prosecution are expected to deliver highly anticipated opening statements in the triple-slay trial starting Monday morning, after a jury pool of 12 women and six men were locked in last week.
The killer mom’s ex-husband, Patrick Clancy – who now lives in New York City with his new wife, infertility specialist Rachel Danis – is slated to testify as the first witness.
Patrick – who discovered his and Lindsay’s three kids dead in their Duxbury home in January 2023 – is going to take the stand for the prosecution first, though he’s also on the defense team’s witness list, according to the Boston Globe.