Lindsay Clancys stricken mom testifies about disturbing moment daughter confessed her darkest inner thoughts: I just have to tell you guys something
Lindsay Clancy’s stricken mom testified in disturbing detail Monday how her daughter told her a month before killing her three kids that she thought about harming them.Paula Musgrove told the jury that one night in early- to mid-December 2022, Clancy admitted to Musgrove and Clancy’s then-husband, Patrick Clancy, that she had dark thoughts about hurting kids Cora, 5, Dawson, 3 and 8-month-old Callan.Lindsay went on to fatally strangle the children with exercise bands at her and Patrick’s Duxbury, Mass., home Jan.24, 2023, and then immediately tried to kill herself.“I remember her being very nervous,” Musgrove told jurors in the horrific Plymouth, Mass., case, referring to the night her daughter told her and Patrick about her dark thoughts.Musgrove said the three were in the family’s kitchen when Lindsday said, “I just have to tell you guys something.”“She told us that she had thoughts of harming the children,” recalled Musgrove, the third witness to testify on Lindsay’s behalf, after prosecutors rested their case earlier Monday.“I remember Pat asking her if she felt like she couldn’t be alone with the children, and she said, ‘No,’ ” Musgrove said.Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague followed up by asking if Musgrove if she ever thought about having Lindsay committed to a mental institution.“No,” Musgrove responded.Sprague said, “Were you concerned for the children’s safety at that point in time?” “No, because I was there,” Musgrove said.The mother and grandmother explained that as Lindsay’s mental health began deteriorating in the four months before the slayings, she started staying with her daughter for days at a time to help with the kids and to provide moral support.On Oct.
20, 2022, Lindsay texted Musgrove, “Mom will you please come up and stay with me for a bit.“I’m really sick.
Something is wrong.I have horrible insomnia all night and I just don’t know how I’m going to get through the day,” Lindsay wrote.�...