Lindsay Clancy's Defense Rests On One Voice

Everything Kevin Reddington is arguing in Plymouth Superior Court comes back to a single claim: that by January 2023, Lindsay Clancy was hearing a voice instructing her to kill her three children and then herself.

Three counts of first-degree murder are on the indictment, and Clancy has pleaded not guilty. The Duxbury deaths occurred on January 24, 2023. That she killed them is not contested. Prosecutors say she acted with intent and full awareness.

Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for part one of three, and this conversation is about the condition rather than the courtroom. Shavaun has been in practice more than thirty years, treating anxiety, depression, and the psychology of violence.

Published prevalence figures sit near one or two births in every thousand. Researchers describe it as a condition that shifts — a woman can be disoriented in one hour and entirely clear in the next. Understanding that pattern is the difference between following this trial and misreading it.

The conversation handles the hardest fact for the defense. This illness usually arrives within days or weeks of delivery. The baby, Callan, was eight months.

Shavaun separates psychosis from psychopathy for an audience that hears the two words as one thing. She explains where an intrusive thought ends and a command voice begins. She takes on why Clancy told her providers she had no thoughts of harming her children while her husband testified she told him otherwise. And she answers whether this illness reaches the part of a person that knows right from wrong.

Shavaun Scott's book is Nightbird. Parts two and three follow.

Judge William Sullivan is presiding in Plymouth Superior Court. Shavaun also addresses what the jury has already heard from four clinicians who described clear, linear thinking and no psychosis, and why that testimony does not settle the question the way it appears to.

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