Clancy Defense Calls 4 Experts, Ex-Mother-in-Law in Trial Over 3 Children’s Killings
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Updated · NBC Boston · Aug 18
Clancy Defense Calls 4 Experts, Ex-Mother-in-Law in Trial Over 3 Children’s Killings
3 articles · Updated · NBC Boston · Aug 18
Summary
Four defense witnesses testified Tuesday in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, including a psychiatrist, a forensic pathologist and her former mother-in-law, as jurors heard more evidence aimed at supporting an insanity defense.
A forensic pathologist walked jurors through a reconstruction of the Duxbury home and her view of how Clancy was injured, while a doctor described helping Clancy call her husband from the hospital.
Cross-examination produced some of the day’s sharpest clashes, and a prosecutor’s question to the former mother-in-law about murder being a “mortal sin” was struck from the record.
The defense says Clancy was in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis when her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — were killed on Jan. 24, 2023; prosecutors say she deliberately strangled them.