Lindsay Clancys husband could testify for her at trial over deaths of their three children
If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).The husband of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three young children, is expected to testify on her behalf at her upcoming trial.Clancy, a 35-year-old former nurse, is slated to go on trial this week in the murder case of her three young children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.Jury selection is scheduled to begin Monday morning in Plymouth Superior Court.Patrick Clancy is one of the more than 200 people who could be called to testify.
Patrick, along with his wife Lindsay, have maintained that the doctors who treated her misdiagnosed and overmedicated her, causing her to hallucinate voices telling her to kill her kids.The allegations are central to lawsuits claiming that medical professionals failed to diagnose her escalating postpartum psychosis before the deadly tragedy.MASSACHUSETTS MOTHER ACCUSED OF STRANGLING HER 3 CHILDREN SEEKS INSANITY DEFENSELindsay Clancy, charged with the murder of her three children in Duxbury in 2023, appears in Plymouth Superior Court on Friday, Feb.20, 2026.
(Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)In an amended complaint filed in Norfolk Superior Court, Lindsay Clancy alleges a network of psychiatric providers misdiagnosed her, failed to properly treat what she says was bipolar disorder with postpartum onset and prescribed a changing regimen of medications that allegedly worsened her condition before the Jan.24, 2023, deaths of her children.The complaint accuses the defendants of medical malpractice and negligence, alleging they failed to recognize that Clancy’s reported "intrusive thoughts" were actually auditory hallucinations that made her a danger to herself and her children."Lindsay Clancy did everything a mother in her situation could do," the lawsuit says, alleging she sought treatment, went to emergency rooms, contacte...