- The jury made a rare visit to the Massachusetts home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, and were escorted in groups of six to view the inside, including the basement where the children died.
- During the roughly 40-minute visit, jurors saw the yard where Clancy was found after jumping from a second-story window. The home now has a new owner, and Clancy did not attend the visit.
- The jury retraced the route Patrick Clancy took when asked to pick up takeout food and medicine for Cora; he returned to find the children dead and his then-wife badly injured and bleeding in the yard.
- The route included a restaurant about 5.5 miles from the Duxbury home and a pharmacy about 1 mile away; prosecutors say the errands were a ruse to get her husband out of the house.
Jurors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial visited the Duxbury home where she strangled her three children, retracing the route taken by her husband, Patrick Clancy, on the night of the January 2023 killings.1267
The visit, lasting roughly 40 minutes, allowed jurors to view the basement where the children died and the yard where Clancy was found after jumping from a second-story window.345
Clancy did not attend the visit, having not seen the home since the day of the killings.
Prosecutors allege that the errands Patrick Clancy ran were a ruse to get him out of the house, asserting that Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, acted intentionally and is criminally responsible for the deaths of her children: Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months.89
Her defense argues that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, a severe mental illness exacerbated by stress and hormonal changes following childbirth.
They claim she believed a voice was instructing her to “kill the children so you can kill yourself.”
Lindsay Clancy remains paralyzed from the waist down after multiple attempts to end her life that night.
If convicted of murder, she faces life in prison without parole; if found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.
“Jurors, in groups of six, saw the basement where the children died and the yard where Lindsay Clancy was found after jumping from a second-story window. Prosecutors say the errands, to a restaurant 5.5 miles away and a pharmacy a mile away, were a ruse to get Patrick Clancy out of the house.”
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