Lindsay Clancy trial live updates: Terrifying details of ‘clearly psychotic’ killer mom’s mental state revealed by final witness
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Lindsay Clancy‘s defense is expected to rest its case Friday, with a psychiatrist who played a key role in the notorious 2001 case of Texas killer mom Andrea Yates as the final witness.
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It’s been a grueling four weeks of trial in Massachusetts, where Clancy, 36, is charged with murder for strangling her three young children while postpartum in 2023.
Closing arguments are expected early next week, defense attorney Kevin Reddington said Thursday, adding that his client is “so beat up and just so sad” after sitting through 17 days of brutal testimony and evidence that included autopsy photos of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.
Throngs of pink-clad Clancy supporters began showing up outside the Plymouth County Superior Court Plymouth, Mass., Thursday, as the heartbreaking case captivates the nation, creating a watershed moment for discussion about postpartum mental illness and how struggling new mothers are treated.
Clancy’s defense argues she is not criminally responsible for strangling with exercise bands in the basement of the Duxbury, Mass., family home because she was suffering from undiagnosed postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder, exacerbated by a dangerous cocktail of 13 powerful psychiatric medications.
The labor and delivery nurse faces life in prison without parole if convicted on the three counts of first-degree murder.
Follow The Post’s live updates on the Lindsay Clancy murder trial for the latest news in the gut-wrenching case:
Prosecution calls first rebuttal witness after Lindsay Clancy’s defense rested
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Priscilla DeGregory
Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called the first rebuttal witness in the state’s case against Lindsay Clancy, Dr. Avram Mack, a forensic psychiatrist.
Lindsay Clancy’s defense rests case after calling 10 witnesses
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Priscilla DeGregory
Lindsay Clancy’s defense case has wrapped up after her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, called 10 witnesses.
“Lindsay Clancy rests her case,” Reddington said.
Prosecutors are now putting on a rebuttal case.
Clancy’s ‘distorted mind’ convinced her she was ‘doing her children a favor’ by killing them: psychiatrist
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Priscilla DeGregory
Lindsay Clancy had a warped — but altruistic — reason for killing daughter Cora and sons Dawson and Callan, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick said Friday.
Resnick testified that she had a distorted belief that if she killed herself, her children’s lives would be so awful without her that she should kill them too.
“In her mind, she believed she would be doing her children a favor by having them go to heaven with her rather than remain on Earth without her doing the mothering.
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“Her mind was distorted like that.”
Clancy “believed her children would be miserable. And she couldn’t imagine them continuing to exist and have a decent life without her being there as a mother,” Resnick said.
“So in that sense, she did what she believed was morally right, even though she understood that ordinarily killing a child is against the law, she believed that she was doing what was right for her children with her distorted psychotic symptoms and her children’s need for her.”
Psychiatrist testifying now worked on Jeffrey Dahmer, Oklahoma City bomber, slew of other infamous cases
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Priscilla DeGregory
Forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick, testifying Friday for Lindsay Clancy’s defense, has worked on a slew of other major US cases.
Resnick worked for prosecutors on the cases of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes, and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, he told the jury.
He also testified in Andrea Yates’ defense at both of the killer Texas mom’s trials in the early aughts, in which she was accused of drowning her five kids.
‘Clearly psychotic’ Clancy ‘was a puppet and someone else was pulling the strings’ the day she killed kids: psychiatrist
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Priscilla DeGregory
Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick told the jury that Lindsay Clancy was “clearly psychotic” the day she strangled her three kids.
Resnick said Clancy had bipolar disorder with severe depression and a postpartum onset at the time she strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, with exercise bands in the basement of their Duxbury, Mass., home.
“She was clearly psychotic on that day,” Resnick said.
He said that on Jan. 24, 2023, Clancy heard a “command voice” telling her to carry out the heinous acts.
“She had what is known as a ‘delusion of influence,’ ” Resnick told jurors Friday.
“Not only did she hear a command but she felt her body was taken over by an external force where she was in a dream state and did not have control of her own body.
“It was almost like she was a puppet and someone else was pulling the strings.”
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