Lindsay Clancy prosecutors squeeze timeline from ex-husband as jury weighs murder versus madness: expert
If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Patrick Clancy’s painstaking account of the night his three children died may have given prosecutors their clearest framework yet for arguing that Lindsay Clancy was lucid, deliberate and criminally responsible at the time of the killings, a legal expert says.Testifying Wednesday in Plymouth Superior Court, Patrick walked jurors minute by minute through the errands that took him away from the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home on Jan.24, 2023: a trip to CVS for a child’s stool softener, followed by a stop to pick up dinner.HEATED LINDSAY CLANCY COURTROOM EXCHANGE OVER 911 CALL, CRIME SCENE PHOTOS SETS STAGE FOR MOM’S MURDER TRIALHe said Lindsay called him back while he was inside CVS, understood why he was there and calmly approved a generic substitute.
When he returned home, he found an eerily quiet house, blood inside the couple’s locked bedroom and Lindsay injured beneath an open second-story window.Lindsay Clancy attends her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth on July 29, 2026.(David L.
Ryan/Pool)When Patrick found Lindsay Clancy lying on her back beneath their bedroom window, he said she had deep cuts on her wrists and a red line across her neck.LINDSAY CLANCY’S EX-HUSBAND DETAILS ‘BIG SPIRAL’ AS EXPERT SAYS ONE PART ‘SCARED ME’ IN MOM’S MURDER TRIAL"What happened?" he recalled asking her."I tried to kill myself," she responded, according to Patrick.He then asked, "Where are the kids?"Lindsay and Patrick Clancy with two of their three children in this undated photo (Lindsay Marie Clancy/ Facebook)LINDSAY CLANCY’S EX-HUSBAND DETAILS PILL USE AS EXPERT SAYS EVIDENCE COULD SHAPE MURDER TRIAL"They’re in the basement," Lindsay told him.Patrick testified that she did not say the children were injured, in danger or needed help.The defense is expected to argue Clancy lacks criminal resp...