Lindsay Clancy's Mother Testifies: "She Told Us She Had Thoughts of Harming the Kids"

Lindsay Clancy, the 34-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023, had her defense's turn on the stand today. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Three women who knew her best took the stand. Margaret Hamp, a labor and delivery nurse who worked alongside Clancy, described her as empathetic, caring, the kind of coworker who asked for parenting tips. Hamp also recalled an anxiety episode — Clancy watching a baby monitor, Cora crying, Patrick not picking up, and Clancy calling police for a wellness check because she couldn't reach him. Then Clancy's sister, Allison Ozga, testified that Lindsay changed dramatically around Thanksgiving — deepening depression, suicidal thoughts. On cross, prosecutors got Ozga to admit that as a mandated reporter, she never once felt Clancy was a danger to herself or the kids. Finally, Clancy's mother, Paula Musgrove, painted the fuller picture: a daughter who was scared, sleepless, afraid to drive, afraid to be alone — and who told both her and Patrick that she'd had thoughts of harming the children.

That last detail is the one the defense needs jurors to sit with, and the one prosecutors will spend the rest of the trial trying to reframe. Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window after the killings and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.

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