If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Prosecutors appeared to begin chipping away at the defense’s portrayal of Lindsay Clancy as overmedicated, walking jurors through nine prescription bottles that still contained many of the pills she had been given.Patrick Clancy testified Monday that his ex-wife had been prescribed numerous psychiatric medications in the months before the deaths of their three young children.But under questioning from Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham, he acknowledged that several prescriptions had been only partly used."So there were a lot of pills prescribed, but not a lot of pills taken.
Correct?" Buckingham asked, holding up a bag of prescription medications.LINDSAY CLANCY’S EX-HUSBAND DETAILS ‘BIG SPIRAL’ AS EXPERT SAYS ONE PART ‘SCARED ME’ IN MOM’S MURDER TRIALAssistant Plymouth County District Attorney Jennifer Sprague entering a bag of prescription pills that were prescribed to Lindsay Clancy into evidence during the first day of her trial.(Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)"Is that comprehensive?" Patrick responded.
"Of all the pills that were prescribed?""These are the pills that you brought into the police station," Buckingham said."So out of these.""Out of those, yeah," Patrick said.
"It’s possible that not a lot were taken."Buckingham also sought to distinguish between the total number of medications prescribed over several months and how many Lindsay was prescribed at one time.Patrick estimated that she was taking three or four medications at most.Buckingham then asked whether it would surprise him to learn that Lindsay was prescribed no more than three medications at any given time and usually two.Patrick Clancy took the stand Monday and described watching his wife fall into a "big spiral" before she allegedly strangled their three young children inside the family’s Massachusetts home.
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