Cop breaks down in Lindsay Clancy murder trial as he describes 3 strangled kids in most disturbing testimony yet
Testimony in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial was the most harrowing yet Thursday with nine first responders recalling the horrifying moment they discovered her three strangled kids — a scene that brought one veteran cop to tears on the stand.Police Officer Stephen Hall told jurors gut-wrenching details about the condition of the children when he arrived at Clancy’s Duxbury, Mass., home and how he heard husband Patrick Clancy screaming, “I can’t wake them up!’During the difficult testimony, Hall — a 43-year-old with 11 years on the force — paused, drawing deep, slow breaths and took off his glasses so he could wipe both of his eyes with his hand.When he resumed answering questions, his voice broke and he wiped under his left eye with one of his fingers.Hall said he “heard a scream from inside” the house and went to the basement with his partner, Officer Brian Josephine, to find Patrick frantically coming to terms with the heartbreaking situation.Patrick said, “I can’t wake them up!” Hall recounted hearing before he saw Clancy’s middle child, Dawson, 3, lying lifeless on the floor.“He was discolored, like a blueish, purple,” Hall told the jury in a Plymouth courtroom.Hall and Josephine rushed Dawson outside to an ambulance so paramedics could try to revive him, before the partners hurried inside to find Cora, 5, and 8-month-old Callan “motionless” on the floor, Hall told the jury.“She killed the f–king kids!” Josephine recalled hearing Patrick yell.Clancy, a 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, is on trial for allegedly strangling the children with exercise bands on the evening of Jan.
24, 2023.She also downed medication, slashed her wrists and neck and threw herself out of her second-story bedroom window in a suicide attempt that left her paralyzed.Clancy’s lawyer will ask the jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming she was in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis partly caused by a cocktail ...