Postpartum psychosis or murder? Trial of mother who killed her kids spotlights mental health

Lindsay Clancy’s mental wellbeing will be a central question during her trial for strangling her three children to death What was going through the mind of Lindsay Clancy when she sent her husband out for children’s medicine and to pick up takeout food then killed their three young children using exercise resistance bands? Clancy – a 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse at the Massachusetts general hospital (MGH) – then stabbed herself in the neck, slashed her wrists and jumped out a 20ft high window, paralyzing herself from the waist down. Clancy’s mental wellbeing will be the central question when a jury sits next week in the Plymouth county superior court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, as she is prosecuted for the killings of Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months. Clancy has pleaded not guilty but that she committed the crimes is not in question. Prosecutors say the murders were premeditated, and evidence of Clancy’s actions, including Googling how far the restaurant and pharmacy was from the home, on the night of 24 January 2023 will prove it. Clancy’s defense team, supported by her ex-husband and father of the children, Patrick Clancy, will argue that she was