Lindsay Clancy Testifies: Mother's Struggles with Mental Health and Children's Deaths
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Lindsay Clancy was 'begging for help' before killing her children, former mother-in-law testifies Susan Clancy told jurors Tuesday that Lindsay was struggling with insomnia and anxiety and feared she had become dependent on medications she was taking.
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BBC NewsLindsay Clancy was "begging for help" before killing her three children, her former mother-in-law testified on Tuesday, echoing others who have told a court that Clancy's mental health deteriorated after the birth of her youngest son.
Associated PressSusan Clancy, who, like Lindsay, worked as a labor and delivery nurse, said in Plymouth Superior Court that she and her former daughter-in-law were close and described Lindsay as a “wonderful mother” who was “very nurturing, very loving.” Her testimony echoed emotional accounts the day before from Lindsay Clancy’s mother and sister, who recounted for jurors how they saw her become increasingly anxious, paranoid and suicidal starting in the fall of 2022.
Washington TimesThat December, Lindsay Clancy told her mother and her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, that “she had thoughts of harming the children,” Musgrove said. Lindsay Clancy’s sister Allison Ozga testified that at the end of December, Lindsay told her she had experienced suicidal thoughts every day for a month.
The Daily WireThe mother of Lindsey Clancy took the stand Monday to describe the disturbing thoughts and mental deterioration that consumed her daughter in the weeks before Clancy strangled her three young children in their Massachusetts home.
The Guardian USThe defense in the Lindsay Clancy filicide case called the defendant’s mother as one of its first witnesses Monday, after three weeks of prosecution evidence laid out, in often harrowing detail, events surrounding Clancy’s killing of her three children.
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Musgrove also recalled a more alarming disclosure in December, when she was standing in the kitchen with Lindsay Clancy and her then-husband, Patrick Clancy. Musgrove said her daughter appeared nervous and told them she needed to tell them something.
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The Guardian USMusgrove also disclosed that on one occasion her daughter had approached her and Lindsay’s former husband, Patrick Clancy, and said: “I want to tell you guys something”.
BBC NewsA month before the killings, Musgrove said, her daughter came to her and Clancy's then-husband, Patrick Clancy.
The Daily WireMusgrove testified that her daughter became increasingly concerned that officials at her children’s school were becoming aware of her deteriorating mental state. She also recalled Clancy losing a significant amount of weight and becoming paranoid about things that did not appear logical to her family.
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“I’m not okay and I’m terrified of taking meds tonight,” Lindsay texted her mother-in-law on Nov. 30, 2022, two months before the killings.
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Associated Press“I’m not okay and I’m terrified of taking meds tonight,” Lindsay texted her mother-in-law on Nov. 30, 2022, two months before the killings.
The Guardian USLindsay’s mother also said she received a text from her daughter on 20 October, three months before the killings. “I’m really sick. Something is wrong,” Lindsay wrote, saying she didn’t know how she would get through each day, and that medicine had not helped.
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At the start of the trial, Patrick Clancy described the horror of returning home to find his dead children. During his testimony, prosecutors played a harrowing seven-minute 911 call, which was not released to the public. Patrick Clancy can be heard checking on Lindsay Clancy in the backyard, before heading down to his basement and finding his children.
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Washington TimesAt the start of the trial, Patrick Clancy described the horror of returning home to find his dead children. Prosecutors played a seven-minute 911 call in which he can be heard finding the bodies and telling a dispatcher, “She killed the kids!”
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Supporters of Clancy argue a failed medical establishment and postpartum psychosis led to the deaths of the three children. A GoFundMe for Clancy’s parents has raised a staggering $860,000 to help absorb what they called “the travel, lodging, and living costs required to remain close to their daughter.”
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01 BBC News "She was begging for help," she said of a woman she described as a "very nurturing, very loving" mother.
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02 Washington Times Condie said Clancy’s medical records indicated she reported hearing a voice, but conceded on cross-examination that she had not reported hearing voices before the children were killed.
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03 Associated Press Live from court as the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy continues in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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04 The Guardian US Whiffin said that at 5pm on the night of the killings, Lindsay had climbed two flights of stairs and spoken by phone with her husband, who was then at a pharmacy collecting constipation medication and going to pick up a takeout.
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05 The Daily Wire Ladies, what are we doing? The internet is losing its ever-loving mind over the case of Lindsay Clancy, and it’s exposing how ridiculously lost we are as a populace.
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