Jury nears Lindsay Clancy verdict as psychosis defense closes
What's next: Jurors could get the Massachusetts case early next week after nearly a month of testimony over the 2023 killings.
The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy is moving toward jury deliberations after her lawyers finished a defense centered on postpartum psychosis. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to killing her three children in Massachusetts in January 2023, arguing she was experiencing hallucinations and delusions after the birth of her youngest child and could not distinguish right from wrong. Prosecutors contend she deliberately strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan with exercise bands before jumping from a second-floor window. A defense psychiatrist testified that Clancy was suffering a “command hallucination” and believed she was saving her children by sending them to heaven with her. The case has also drawn wider attention to postpartum psychosis, a rare psychiatric emergency after childbirth.