Lindsay Clancy murder trial live updates: Killer mom begged crisis line for help twice — but was turned away

Judge William Sullivan just dismissed the jury for the day after the testimony of medical examiner Barbara Olson wrapped up.

Clancy wept the entire time Olson was questioned.

The jury is due back around 9:00 a.m. Thursday.

Medical examiner Barbara Olson testified that the way Lindsay Clancy’s daughter, Cora, died would have been painful.

Olson said the 5-year-old girl was strangled.

“There is a component of pain present until loss of consciousness occurs,” Olson said.

She said the girl could have lost consciousness after 10 to 30 seconds.

Clancy has been crying throughout Olson’s testimony.

Lindsay Clancy tightly held hands with her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, and wept during the testimony of the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy of her daughter Cora.

“I can’t do it,” Clancy said through sobs, as ME, Barbara Olson spoke.

Judge William Sullivan immediately called a break and the jury exited the room.

Clancy appeared to struggle to catch her breath through the weeping and two women came up and put hands on her back to console her.

Renee Stonebridge, a medical examiner for Massachusetts, has begun testifying about her exams of certain body parts of Lindsay Clancy’s three kids.

Stonebridge specializes in examining brains and other body parts of children when homicide is suspected.

She looked at the eyes of Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3, and found hemorrhaging in both children. She also examined the brain, spine and eyes of 8-month-old Callan, finding he was asphyxiated.

Clancy could be heard loudly crying with her hands covering her face.

She also sobbed through the prior testimony of another ME who conducted the autopsy of Callan.

Clancy strangled the three kids with elastic exercise bands.

Judge William Sullivan called an unplanned break after Stonebridge concluded, presumably so Clancy could compose herself.

As the jury was about to be brought in after the lunch break, Lindsay Clancy sat at the defense table, with her hands clutched in front of her holding a tissue.

Her body shook slightly, and she wiped the tissue on her nose.

She is wearing a long-sleeve green blouse and her brown hair was glowing down the front of her shoulders.

The jury was let go for a lunch break after a Duxbury cop, Cameron Daley, very briefly testified that he guarded Lindsay Clancy’s room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Jan. 25, 2023 — the day after she killed her kids.

The jurors are due back around 2 p.m.

Lindsay Clancy called suicide hotline two times but was turned away both times, jurors learned.

Clancy called the crisis hotline ASPIRE twice, including once over the weekend of Dec. 3 and 4, 2022, and both times was turned away.

“Two times she contacted ASPIRE, not once. Both times they told her there was nothing they could do for her?” Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, asked counselor Latiesha Dukes.

“Correct,” Dukes said.

Clancy told Dukes — who wasn’t affiliated with the crisis hotline — during an appointment on Dec. 5 that she had a bad weekend with intrusive suicidal thoughts and she called the emergency number for help.

ASPIRE told her there was nothing they could do to help her because she didn’t have any plans to act on her suicidal thoughts.

“She had a difficult weekend, having intrusive thought that she wanted to die,” Dukes said earlier in her testimony during questioning by the prosecution. “She met with the clinician virtually and was told she did not meet the criteria for in-patient treatment due to not having suicidal ideation plan.”

Lindsay Clancy was only sleeping two-to-four hours a night and had lost ten pounds in early December 2022 weeks before killing her kids, jurors learned.

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Counselor Latiesha Dukes confirmed that when she first met with Clancy on Dec. 2, 2022, Clancy reported her mental health struggles including having insomnia, anxiety, postpartum depression and thoughts of suicide at times.

Clancy also told Dukes about her weight loss over the past month and her lack of sleep.

“She constantly worried something bad was going to happen to her kids or something bad was going to happen to her baby,” Dukes said.

Clancy said she was “having anxiety and numbness” and she cried during the appointment as she shared her issues, Dukes confirmed, referring to her notes from the time.

Counselor Latiesha Dukes said she recommended that Lindsay Clancy get a “higher level of care” at an outpatient program for postpartum moms.

Dukes told Clancy about Women and Infants Hospital in Rhode Island during a Dec. 12, 2022 video therapy session — just weeks before Clancy killed her kids.

“I was recommending this higher level of care because of continued passive suicidal ideation,” Dukes said, noting that Clancy told Dukes she’d called a crisis hotline the week prior.

“Women and Infants was more for postpartum women and the infant would be able to come with her,” Dukes told the jury.

Dukes only met with Clancy four times from Dec. 2 through Dec. 19. She said Clancy never expressed any plans to kill herself despite having thoughts about it.

Yesterday, the jury learned that Clancy went to Women and Infants on Dec. 20, 2022, but the facility turned her away, referring her instead to a general mental health facility like McLean Hospital.

Latiesha Dukes, a counselor who met with Lindsay Clancy in the months before she murdered her kids, has begun testifying.

Dukes worked at South Shore Hospital’s Perinatal Behavioral Health Clinic where Clancy was treated from November through December.

Clancy also worked with two nurse practitioners at the Clinic who prescribed her a slew of psychiatric medications.

State Trooper Daniel Lawlor admitted it was just speculation that a psychiatrist told Lindsay Clancy to lie about hearing voices.

“There is no investigative basis for that, that’s [State Trooper Joshua McKelligan’s] speculation, right?” said Kevin Reddington, Clancy’s defense attorney.

“Correct,” Lawlor said.

Lawlor had a conversation with lead investigator, McKelligan, in which McKelligan theorized that psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Zeizel, planted with Clancy that she heard voices as a defense strategy.

Zeizel visited Clancy at the hospital and allowed her to use his phone to call her then-husband, Patrick Clancy. Clancy told Patrick during the call that she heard voices telling her to kill her kids.

Lawlor admitted he didn’t hear any of Zeizel’s conversation with Clancy.

Reddington has claimed Clancy shouldn’t be held responsible for the killings because she was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis and heard a voice telling her to carry out the heinous acts.

Kevin Reddington questioned State Trooper Daniel Lawlor outside the presence of the jury about a conversation he had with the lead investigator about Lindsay Clancy’s case.

Lawlor confirmed that he and lead investigator Trooper Joshua McKelligan discussed the theory that a psychiatrist who visited Clancy had the hospital allowed Clancy to use his cell phone to call her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, and tell him she heard voices telling her to kill her kids.

Reddington obtained a court order for the psychiatrist, Dr. Paul Zeizel, to visit with Clancy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

“The prosecution determined that it was Zeizel that told [Clancy] to say [she heard voices] as some type of defense?” Reddington said.

“I dont know what the prosecution determined,” Lawlor said.

“The conversation also included the fact that it was the psychologist who planted that in her mind. That was the theory,” Reddington asked Lawlor of his discussion with McKelligan.

“Correct. That’s what was discussed,” Lawlor said.

The judge called a brief break. The jury should be brought back in after for Lawlor to continue to be questioned by Reddington

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