PLYMOUTH, Mass. (Court TV) — A woman who says she killed her three young children while in the throes of a mental health crisis cried in court on Friday as doctors detailed their attempts to save the victims.
Lindsay Clancy sits in court on July 31, 2026. (Court TV)
Lindsay Clancy, 35, is standing trial on three counts of murder in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Through her attorney, Clancy has admitted killing her children, saying that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she strangled them with exercise bands and then cut her own wrists before jumping out of a second-story window at the family’s home.
On Friday, the jury was taken to the property where the family once lived and walked through the home in groups of six. The panel of 18 traveled by bus and also stopped to visit the restaurant and CVS where Clancy’s husband had been running errands when the kids were killed.
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Back in the courtroom after the jury returned, two officers with the Duxbury Police Department described their duties watching over the defendant after she was transported from her home by ambulance on Jan. 24, 2023. The officers said she was sedated and unconscious, with visible injuries to her wrists and neck, where she had cut herself. One officer noted that the clothes Lindsay Clancy had been wearing when she jumped out of the window were soaked with blood, even staining her undergarments.
Lindsay Clancy was initially taken in an ambulance to South Shore Hospital; she was later transferred, via helicopter, to another hospital in Boston. Duxbury Police Officer Richard Lippard, who traveled with her, told the jury the defendant nearly died overnight after suffering a medical emergency.
The prosecution called emergency-room doctors to describe treating the children who were found in the basement of the Clancy home. Dr. Mark Joseph Tenerowicz, who treated Dawson, said that he was told the child had been strangled. Doctors and nurses treated the child for about 40 minutes after he arrived at the hospital, but were never able to restart his heart.
Dr. Benjamin Kaufman, who treated Callan, said he was able to get the infant’s heart started again, but the child never regained the ability to breathe on his own. Tests also showed the child had no brain function.
As doctors described working on her children, Lindsay Clancy wiped away tears.
Testimony is scheduled to resume on Monday morning.
