Lindsay Clancy Trial Opens Over Killings of 3 Children as Lawyers Clash on Mental Illness
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 20
Lindsay Clancy Trial Opens Over Killings of 3 Children as Lawyers Clash on Mental Illness
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 20
Summary
More than three years after the Jan. 24, 2023 deaths, Lindsay Clancy's murder trial opened Monday in Plymouth County Superior Court over the killings of her three children in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
Prosecutors say Clancy, 35, planned the killings by getting her husband out of the house before strangling Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, with resistance bands.
Defense lawyers argue she was overmedicated and in a severe postpartum mental health crisis, hearing voices that told her to kill herself and her children.
The case has revived debate over how courts treat mothers who kill their children, echoing the Andrea Yates insanity case and reopening wounds in the affluent suburb of about 16,000 residents.