Lindsay Clancy jurors visit crime scene in Karen Read-style move to test timeline: Retired judge

This story discusses suicide.If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, contact the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Jurors in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial retraced her ex-husband’s route Friday before walking through the Massachusetts home where the couple’s three children were killed, a court-supervised visit a retired Massachusetts judge said could help the panel understand the timeline and setting at the center of the case.The move was reminiscent of another high-profile Massachusetts murder trial that recently captured headlines, when Karen Read was acquitted of the top charge during her 2025 retrial.In Clancy's case, the 18-member jury panel was driven past ThreeV restaurant in Plymouth and the CVS pharmacy in Kingston that Patrick Clancy visited on Jan.
24, 2023.Jurors were then escorted in groups of six through the family’s former home in Duxbury during a roughly 40-minute visit.LINDSAY CLANCY’S EX-HUSBAND DETAILS ‘BIG SPIRAL’ AS EXPERT SAYS ONE PART ‘SCARED ME’ IN MOM’S MURDER TRIALLindsay Clancy reacts as doctors testify about efforts to save her children Friday, July 31, 2026.
(Josh Reynolds for Daily Mail /Pool)They also saw the basement where Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, were found, as well as the yard beneath the second-story window where Lindsay Clancy was discovered seriously injured after attempting suicide.The fall has left the woman paralyzed and in a wheelchair.Jack Lu, who served 16 years as a Massachusetts Superior Court judge and five years as a Boston Municipal Court judge, said that, in his experience, a view is expected in a Massachusetts homicide trial, particularly a case involving multiple deaths."The reality is, on a homicide case, they’re always, always going to do a view," Lu, now a Boston College law professor, told Fox News Digital.Karen Read exits the Norfolk County Superior Court, Friday, June 13, 2025, in Dedham, Mass.
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