The Massachusetts labor and supply nurse who allegedly strangled and killed her three younger youngsters final 12 months earlier than making an attempt to take her personal life, is looking for to pursue a protection of madness, in accordance with courtroom paperwork.
Lindsay Clancy was indicted on three counts of homicide and strangulation prices in September 2023, after prosecutors say she used train bands to strangle her 5-year-old daughter Cora, her 3-year-old son Dawson and her 8-month-old child Callan, earlier than making an attempt suicide at her Duxbury house.
Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin J. Reddington, filed a discover with the Plymouth Superior Court docket Dec. 13, which stated “statements of the defendant as to her psychological situation will probably be relied upon by defendant’s professional witnesses, and the defendant does intend to current to the courtroom a protection of lack of felony accountability.”
Court docket paperwork present a glimpse into the occasions main as much as the 32-year-old’s determination to allegedly homicide her youngsters.
MASSACHUSETTS MOM LINDSAY CLANCY’S 911 DISPATCH REVEALS FRANTIC FIRST RESPONDERS
Lindsay and Patrick Clancy with two of their three youngsters on this undated picture (Lindsay Marie Clancy/ Fb)
The Plymouth District Court docket unsealed 299 pages of data that reveal 11 search warrants issued in January 2023 and saved confidential.Â
The warrants had been used to gather train bands, medicines, computer systems, notebooks, telephones, a belt, a bathrobe, pajamas and a silver knife.
The paperwork stated the mom of three informed her husband of six years, Patrick Clancy, that she was feeling “anxious” about returning to work at Massachusetts Common Hospital, the place she was a labor and supply nurse.
TIMELINE OF LINDSAY CLANCY CASE
Lindsay Clancy with two of their three youngsters on this undated picture (Lindsay Marie Clancy/Fb)
Patrick informed police Lindsay went to psychiatrists, who prescribed her a number of medicines, together with Zoloft, Valium, Trazodone, Ativan, Klonopin, Prozac and Seroquel.Â
In keeping with data beforehand obtained by Fox Information Digital, Patrick confided in a household pal about his spouse’s psychological well being struggles and expressed issues she was struggling withdrawal from an anxiousness prescription a month earlier.
The paperwork additionally shared Clancy’s actions previous to her allegedly killing her three youngsters.
On the morning of Jan. 24, Clancy took her daughter to a pediatrician, referred to as a neighborhood CVS retailer a few stool-softener prescription and ordered dinner on the ThreeV restaurant in Plymouth.
LINDSAY CLANCY’S HUSBAND ‘BEGGED KIDS TO BREATHE’ AFTER MA MOM ALLEGEDLY ‘HEARD VOICES’ TO KILL THEM
Duxbury police examine the demise of three youngsters Jan. 25, 2023, in Duxbury, Mass. (David L Ryan/The Boston Globe by way of AP)
She additionally used Apple Maps on her cellphone “to find out the time it will take somebody to journey from her house in Duxbury to ThreeV in Plymouth,” in accordance with courtroom paperwork.
Clancy additionally allegedly texted her husband to see if he might go and choose up the takeout on the restaurant and medicine at CVS.
When Patrick arrived house, there was “silence,” courtroom paperwork stated.
Finally, he discovered blood on the ground and observed an open window.
In keeping with courtroom paperwork, he ran exterior to the yard and located Lindsay on the bottom, acutely aware and with cuts to her wrists and neck and instantly referred to as 911.
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Boston 25 Information reported that Assistant District Lawyer Jennifer L. Sprague additionally filed a request with the Plymouth Superior Court docket final week, looking for a September trial date.
“Whereas DNA testing outcomes and experiences from specialists are excellent, it’s moderately believed that this discovery will probably be full[d] effectively prematurely of September of 2025,” she wrote within the submitting obtained by the station.
Fox Information Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Chris Eberhart contributed to this report.
