Clancy murder trial hears testimony of mental health crisis before children's deaths

Three children were killed by strangulation; mother-in-law testimony indicates victim experienced severe untreated mental health crisis.

In a Boston courtroom, the trial of Lindsay Clancy has become a reckoning with one of the law's oldest and most unresolved questions: where does illness end and culpability begin. Three children are dead, strangled by their mother's hands — a fact no one disputes. What the trial now asks is whether a mind seized by psychosis, hearing commanding voices and untethered from shared reality, can be held to the same moral account as a mind that chose freely. The case holds up a mirror to a society that struggles to treat mental illness before tragedy, and then struggles again to judge it after.

Clancy murder trial hears testimony of mental health crisis before children's deaths

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