Everything we know about Lindsay Clancys stint in mental institution days before strangling her 3 kids

Lindsay Clancy told doctors she drank five days a week and had severe insomnia and suicidal thoughts  — but claimed she wouldn’t kill herself because of her children — before she ended up fatally strangling them, it was revealed in court Friday.Just two days before the three little kids’ horrific slayings Jan.24, 2023, the Massachusetts mom went with her husband and children to a friend’s barbecue and was “just quiet but fairly normal,’’ the pal, Sarah Carney, testified.Plymouth prosecutors, in a chilling moment, asked Carney at one point if she ever saw the kids playing with the exercise bands that their mother, a 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, would soon kill them with.“Sure, if that’s what I said.

I don’t recall,” Carney replied, referring to a social-media exchange over some of Clancy’s video posts showing the doomed kids playing around with the exercise cords.In another tense moment, Clancy’s fuming lawyer told the judge that a prosecutor was caught on a mic with jurors in the room Thursday saying, “Shut her up’’ as the killer mom wailed when autopsy photos were shown of her baby in court.Clancy lawyer Kevin Reddington protested over the incident to Judge William Sullivan while jurors were still out from a break.“They got picked up on a hot mic saying ‘Shut her up,’ during the playing of the autopsy,” Reddington said of the alleged incident, demanding a sidebar.It wasn’t clear who the “her’’ was that the lawyer was referring to, but Reddington was apparently suggesting the timing meant it was Clancy, and the judge agreed to a sidebar.The new revelations about the horror case surfaced Friday as prosecutors honed in on the state of the mother before the slayings — additionally with a string of doctors who testified as Clancy tightly clasped her hands in front of her.Her lawyer wants a jury to find Clancy not guilty of her children’s killings by reason of insanity on the grounds she was in the t...