Lindsay Clancy’s mother says daughter thought medication was ‘destroying her mind’ as defense begins case in murder trial | CNN

Lindsay Clancy’s defense on Monday started calling its own witnesses – several of whom described her as a dedicated and loving parent – after prosecutors rested their case against the Massachusetts mother accused of murdering her three young children. “She always wanted to be a mother, have many children, and I felt it was the best thing that ever happened to her,” Clancy’s mother testified, before describing her daughter’s apparent spiral into darkness and paranoia in the months before the killings. “She would mention that this wasn’t her mind,” Paula Musgrove said. “She would say to me, ‘This isn’t me, I’ve never been like this before.’ And I would agree, because she wasn’t.” Clancy, 36, does not deny she fatally strangled her children – Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and 8-month-old Callan – in the basement of their family home in January 2023. But her attorney argues the former labor and delivery nurse should not be held criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and extreme mental illness when she strangled her kids and then attempted to kill herself. The Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office, meanwhile, argues