Psychiatrist links Lindsay Clancy killings to postpartum psychosis
What's next: Jurors in Massachusetts are expected to get the case early next week after the defense rested Friday.
A defense psychiatrist testified Friday that Lindsay Clancy was suffering a “command hallucination” when she killed her three children in Massachusetts in January 2023, as her murder trial nears the jury. Forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick told jurors Clancy likely could not distinguish right from wrong and believed she was helping her children by sending them to heaven with her. Prosecutors contend Clancy made a deliberate decision to strangle Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan with exercise bands before jumping from a second-floor window. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty, arguing she was in postpartum psychosis. The defense rested Friday after testimony from relatives about her deteriorating mental health after Callan’s birth.