Final witness in Lindsay Clancy trial says he doesn’t believe she heard a voice during killings

FBI psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff says he has treated only two women with postpartum psychosis, both decades earlier Testimony finished in the Lindsay Clancy trial on Wednesday, as a final witness for the prosecution laid out that he believed the Massachusetts mother knew right from wrong when she took the lives of her three young children before attempting to kill herself in 2023. Closing arguments are expected to begin on Thursday. The jury will then start deliberating. An FBI psychiatrist, Dr Gregory Saathoff, testified in court in Plymouth that he did not believe Clancy’s account that she heard a voice ordering her to kill the children – five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan – as her defense team maintains that this occurred while she was suffering from the relatively rare condition of postpartum psychosis. The issue is the crux of the case: Clancy’s mental health and whether, as prosecutors contend, she knowingly murdered her children or, as the defense argues, she was at that moment outside the realms of reality and, in legal terms, lacks criminal responsibility for her actions. She has admitted to killing the children, but not to murder