Lindsay Clancys haunting messages to nurse revealed weeks before she killed her 3 kids
Lindsay Clancy’s chilling messages to a nurse practitioner in the weeks before she strangled her three young kids and tried to kill herself were reavealed this week during her murder trial.Clancy, then 32, sent nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta a string of messages in early December, describing she was overwhelmed by intrusive thoughts, concerned she could be addicted to an anxiety medication, and disturbed that she was “completely numb.”“I feel like I’m going to die and I don’t care,” the Massachusetts mother of three messaged Jollotta, who works at South Shore Hospital’s Perinatal Behavioral Clinic, on MyChart on Dec.
2, 2022.“I have never felt anything like this before,” Clancy added, the Daily Mail reported.Jollotta responded, telling Clancy that intrusive thoughts were “quite common” in women suffering from postpartum depression.
“They mean nothing about you as a mother,” Jollotta maintained.Just over a month later, on January 24, 2023, Clancy murdered her kids Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, who was 8 months old, with exercise bands before she slit her wrists and throat and threw herself from the second story of her Duxbury, Mass., home, leaving her partially paralyzed.Jollotta treated Clancy from Nov.
29, 2022 to Dec.13, 2022, after a colleague left the clinic and transferred her to her care.
During that time, Jollotta prescribed her a slew of powerful psychiatric medications.A day after starting treatment with Jollotta, on Nov.30, Clancy messaged the healthcare provider stating, “What I’m really feeling is I cannot go on this way,” the outlet reported.
Later that day, Clancy asked Jollotta if they could call, but the nurse practitioner testified at her murder trial that she was too busy seeing other patients and had a more junior member of her staff call her instead.Over the next two days, Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, started describing her intrusive thoughts and concerns about her overall treatment pla...