Lindsay Clancy Trial Closer: Forensic Psychiatrist Questions Her Moral Judgment
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The Lindsay Clancy trial was heading for closing arguments Wednesday, as a final witness for the prosecution laid out that he believed the Massachusetts mother knew right from wrong when she took the lives of her three young children before attempting to commit suicide in 2023.
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Associated PressClancy’s mental health is a key issue at her trial. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington does not dispute that Clancy, 36, killed the children but says she shouldn’t 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. Clancy then also tried to kill herself.
PBS NewsHourWATCH LIVE: Presentation of evidence expected to conclude in Lindsay Clancy trial The prosecution resumed questioning its final witness Wednesday in the murder trial against Lindsay Clancy, with an FBI psychiatrist testifying that the choices she made while killing her three children indicated she remained in control of her actions.
The Daily WirePatrick Clancy finally responded to wild online conspiracy theories — which have been peddled by influencers and celebrities — that tie him to the murders of his three young children, despite his ex-wife Lindsay Clancy acknowledging that she committed the crimes.
Washington PostWhat to know about the Lindsay Clancy trial Closing arguments are expected later this week in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the 36-year-old Massachusetts mother who strangled her three kids to death in 2023.
The Federalist‘Fixated on Her’ Closing arguments are slated to begin this week in the emotionally charged murder trial. Prosecutors say Clancy premeditatedly murdered her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in December 2023. Clancy’s defense team argues that she committed the acts of filicide while in the throes of postpartum psychosis — a rare mental health crisis that causes a woman to lose touch with reality following childbirth.
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Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Virginia and a senior psychiatrist for the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, began testifying Tuesday that he did not believe Clancy’s account that a voice ordered her to kill her three young children.
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The Guardian USFBI psychiatrist Dr Gregory Saathoff testified in court in Plymouth that he does not believe Clancy’s account that she heard a voice ordering her to kill the children – five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan – as her defense team maintains that this occurred while she was suffering from the relatively rare condition of postpartum psychosis.
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Clancy knew right from wrong when she killed her children, Saathoff testified. “The planning involved, prior to the strangling of her children, I thought was significant,” he said.
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The Daily WireThe thing Clancy “went through,” to be clear, is the slaughter of her children, carried out by her own hands. I don’t know if the women in that clip have kids, but if they do, I grieve for those children — and worry for them.
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He found it unusual that Clancy said the voice stopped once she was done strangling the children, that the voice was constant rather than intermittent and that she never previously reported hearing a voice to her medical providers. She also gave a different timeline to other evaluators about when she first heard the voice that day, he said.
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The Guardian USSaathoff said Tuesday he found it unusual that Clancy said the voice she was hearing stopped once she had killed the children, and that the voice was constant rather than intermittent. “Committing the act is not curative of the voice,” Saathoff said, adding that in his experience he had “not ever seen that” happen.
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01 The Guardian US “In the small amount of time that Miss Clancy had in the home without her husband, it was important, in order to carry this out, as well as her suicide [attempt], to do this quickly, methodically, and alike,” he added.
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03 Associated Press Watch live from court as the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy continues in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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04 PBS NewsHour What the Lindsay Clancy trial reveals about a broken postpartum mental health system Lindsay Clancy's murder trial hasn't just dominated headlines for its tragic story and true crime fascination. For many, it has prompted a groundswell of recognition and outrage around the barriers women face when seeking care, the lack of research on postpartum mental health conditions and little education for providers.
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05 The Federalist Thousands of Lindsay Clancy supporters believe the 36-year-old killer is herself a victim.
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06 The Daily Wire The Lindsay Clancy case has brought the dark side of TikTok to the forefront. As it turns out, the dark side of TikTok is just TikTok. There is no light side, no good side.
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