Kin describe Lindsay Clancy's mental decline at murder trial
What's new: Defense witnesses testified Clancy reported suicidal thoughts and fears of harming her children before the 2023 killings.
Family members testified this week that Lindsay Clancy's mental health worsened in the months before prosecutors say she killed her three children in their Massachusetts home in January 2023. In Plymouth Superior Court, her mother Paula Musgrove, sister Allison Ozga and former mother-in-law Susan Clancy described growing anxiety, paranoia, insomnia and suicidal thoughts after the birth of her youngest child. Musgrove told jurors Clancy disclosed in December 2022 that she had thoughts of harming the children. The defense argues Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, had postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible. Prosecutors contend she planned the killings and understood her actions.