Who Signed Off On Lindsay Clancy Going Home

Someone approved Lindsay Clancy's discharge. That decision has not been on trial, and it may never be.

She entered Massachusetts General on New Year's Eve 2022 after telling her husband she was having intrusive thoughts about hurting their children, and was transferred to McLean early on January 1. On January 5, after asking to go home, she was released with an appointment scheduled for the following day.

Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, work through what that release was built on.

Patrick Clancy testified he did not know his wife had asked to leave. He said he was unaware she had been offered daily one-on-one therapy and unaware she had turned down additional group sessions. He said that from what he saw and heard, it did not seem like she was being treated, with a weekend and an observed holiday delaying her first doctor visit.

She reported to providers that the thoughts had passed. Her daughter's fifth birthday party was two days after she got home. Cora died seventeen days after the party.

Dreeke spent a career deciding whether people were being honest about their own state of mind. He explains what a clinician can actually confirm, and what every hospital is left guessing at.

Cora had just turned five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old. Nobody disputes how they died. The only question for this jury is what their mother understood at the time, and the Commonwealth has to prove it.

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