In a Plymouth courtroom, the trial of Lindsay Clancy has turned toward the interior landscape of a mother's mind — asking whether the deaths of three young children in January 2023 were the product of deliberate cruelty or the catastrophic unraveling of a woman consumed by postpartum psychosis. Her mother, her sister, and a former colleague each stepped forward to describe a woman who was visibly deteriorating in the months before the tragedy, while prosecutors pressed on the silence between concern and action. The case now rests on one of the oldest and most difficult questions the law must f
Clancy's mother testifies daughter had thoughts of harming children before killings
Three children—Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months)—were killed in their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023. Their mother Lindsay Clancy survived a suicide attempt.
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