Dorothy

While Clancy’s defense lawyers have not disputed that she fatally strangled her children, they argue she should not be held criminally responsible because she had postpartum psychosis. Massachusetts prosecutors contend that Clancy, 36, intentionally killed her children Callan, Dawson, and Cora, who were eight months, three years and five years old respectively. Prosecutors said Clancy then faked a suicide attempt.

Clancy's defense argues that she is not guilty because she lacks criminal responsibility, which is more commonly known as an insanity defense. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington says Clancy she was suffering from postpartum depression and psychosis at the time of the killings.

Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, hasn’t disputed that she killed the children but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she had postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. Prosecutors argue that Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, planned the killings.

The case has become a lightning rod with the public, largely because Clancy’s defense argues that she had postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings. Clancy’s defense team is relying on what’s commonly referred to as the insanity defense to argue that she was not criminally responsible because of her mental state. The state says Clancy was aware of what she was doing when she killed her children.

Defense Rests Case in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial The two sides focused Friday on whether Ms. Clancy was experiencing psychosis when she strangled her three young children in 2023. Closing arguments could begin on Monday.

BOSTON (AP) — The defense rested its case Friday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after eliciting several days of testimony about her mental state before and after she strangled her three young children.