Sept. 7, 2026
The Whole Lindsay Clancy Case, Start to Finish: Four Months of Care, Eighty-Four Witnesses, Seven Days of Deadlock, and No Answer at All
A mistrial was declared Friday in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial after the jury deadlocked over seven days and roughly 38 hours. With courts closed for the holiday, a full retrospective: the night of January 24, 2023; the four months of psychiatric treatment that preceded it, including a five-day voluntary hospital admission three weeks before her children died; the 21 days of testimony and 84 witnesses; and the six expert witnesses who all agreed Clancy was seriously mentally ill and disagreed only on whether her illness met the legal standard for lack of criminal responsibility. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington said the jury was "robbed by one man"; Judge William Sullivan had twice declined to remove the holdout, finding the jury's notes did not show a juror refusing to follow the law. Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz has not said whether he will retry the case; the parties return September 29, when Reddington is expected to seek an immediate retrial. Clancy remains held without bail at Tewksbury Hospital. Cora was 5, Dawson was 3, Callan was 8 months old.
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Calaroga Shark Media. Good morning. This is Daily Crime and
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Justice from Calaroga Shark Media, powered by AI. I'm Garrett Fisher.
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It's Monday, September 7th, 2026. At 23 minutes past two
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on Friday afternoon in a courtroom in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Judge
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William Sullivan declared a mistrial in the case of Lindsay Clancy.
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Twelve people had spent roughly 38 hours across seven days
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trying to answer one question, and they could not do it.
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Jury notes indicate they were split 11 to 1 in
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favor of acquitting her. The courts are closed today. There
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is no new filing, no hearing, nothing to report from
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Plymouth County. So we are going to do something we
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almost never do on this show. We are going to
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go all the way back to the beginning and take
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the whole thing apart. The night itself. The four months
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of medical care that came before it. The trial. The
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experts who could not agree. The circus that grew up
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on the sidewalk. And the collapse. Because after six weeks,
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this case is going to be argued about for years
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by people who watched about nine minutes of it. And
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I would rather you had the whole record. This is
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the Lindsay Clancy case, start to finish. Start with the
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children because they are the reason. Cora Clancy was five
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years old. She was in kindergarten. Dawson Clancy was three.
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Callan Clancy was eight months old and had been alive
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for less than a year. They lived at 47 Summer
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Street in Duxbury, Massachusetts, a coastal town about 35 miles
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south of Boston, with their mother, Lindsay, who was a
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labor and delivery nurse, and their father, Patrick. On the
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evening of January 24th, 2023, Lindsay Clancy asked Patrick to
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go out. There was takeout to pick up and a
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prescription to collect at the pharmacy for Cora. He was
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gone roughly 25 minutes. In that window, in the basement
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of that house, she strangled all three of her children
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with exercise resistance bands. Then she cut her own wrists
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and her neck and went out a second-story window. The
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fall did not kill her. It severed her spine. She
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has been paralyzed from the waist down ever since, and
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she will be for the rest of her life. Patrick
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Clancy came home to a silent house. He found blood
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in the master bedroom. He found his wife outside in
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the snow, and she told him she had tried to
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kill herself and that the children were in the basement.
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His 911 call became the single most devastating piece of
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evidence in this trial. It runs about seven minutes. It
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starts with him telling a dispatcher his wife tried to
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kill herself and telling her to stay awake. and then
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you hear him go downstairs. When prosecutors played it in court,
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the judge ordered the cameras off. Reporters inside described jurors crying,
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Lindsay Clancy crying. The judge called a recess as soon
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as it ended. She was charged with three counts of
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first-degree murder. She pleaded not guilty by reason of lack
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of criminal responsibility. She has never once denied doing it.
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And here's something you should know before we go any further,
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because it shapes everything. Patrick Clancy has publicly forgiven his ex-wife.
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He has described her as a good mother who became ill.
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He divorced her, moved to New York, remarried, and he
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has still stood in public and said she was sick.
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There is no version of this story where the surviving
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parent is out for blood, and any coverage that suggests
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otherwise is inventing a character that does not exist. Now
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rewind four months, because this is the part of the
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case most people have never heard, and it is the
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part that should terrify you. On September 15th of 2022,
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Lindsay Clancy had her first appointment with a psychiatrist named Dr.
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Jennifer Tufts. It was a Zoom appointment. She was prescribed
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the antidepressant Zoloft. Over the next four months, her mental
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health came apart, and it came apart in front of professionals.
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This was not a woman hiding a decline. Callan had
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been born in May of 2022. By that autumn, she
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was in the medical system and staying in it. She
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saw multiple providers. By the defense's count, she was prescribed
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more than a dozen different medications in that window, with
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drugs added, swapped, and stopped. She reported anxiety, insomnia, brain fog, depression,
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suicidal thinking, and intrusive thoughts about harming her children. She
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told her mother she was suicidal. She told her husband
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she was afraid she would hurt the kids. She searched
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the internet for postpartum depression. She called a suicide hotline. Twice.
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And twice she was turned away because she did not
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have a plan. On January 1st, three weeks before her
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children died, she voluntarily admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital
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and stayed five days. Think about what that means. 23
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days before three children were strangled in a basement, their
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mother checked herself into a psychiatric facility. She was discharged.
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She went home to those children. And nobody who treated her,
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according to their own testimony, saw signs of postpartum psychosis,
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or heard her describe a voice. And in the week
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before the killings, Patrick Clancy went to a doctor and
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said his wife was being turned into a zombie. Five
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days before, she searched for hallucinations and psychosis symptoms. The
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following day, she searched for where the carotid artery is
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and how to cut your own throat. She also kept
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a journal, and prosecutors used it. The Commonwealth's reading of
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those entries was that they showed a woman who resented
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the life she had and made a choice. The defense's
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reading was that they showed a mind coming apart in
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real time. That jury got both readings and, as it
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turns out, could not agree on which one was right either. Dr.
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Tufts testified for the prosecution. On direct, she told the
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jury Clancy never disclosed hearing voices and never described any
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compulsion to hurt her children, and that, in her judgment,
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this was postpartum depression, not psychosis. Then Kevin Reddington cross-examined her,
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and she acknowledged that she had never met Lindsay Clancy
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in person, not once. Every appointment was remote. She acknowledged
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that she never ordered blood testing to see what the
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medications she was prescribing were actually doing in this woman's body.
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And she acknowledged that she had become board-certified only days
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before she began treating her. Nobody in that courtroom accused
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Jennifer Tufts of wanting any of this to happen. That
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is not the allegation, and it is not mine either.
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The allegation is that a woman deteriorating in real time
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was being managed over video by a provider who had
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just gotten certified who never ran a blood panel, and
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that when that woman picked up a phone and called
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a crisis line, the system asked her whether she had
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a plan, decided she did not, and let her go.
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That is the four months. And whatever you conclude about
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criminal responsibility, that record is not in dispute. Both sides
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put it in front of the jury. They just wanted
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the jury to draw different conclusions from it. And there
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is one gap in that record that the Commonwealth stood
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in for five weeks, and it is the strongest thing
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they had. Lindsay Clancy told a great many people a
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great many things in those four months. Her husband, her mother,
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her providers, her journal, crisis lines. But she never told
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a single treating provider that she was hearing a voice
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commanding her to kill her children. That detail surfaces afterward.
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It surfaces to a chaplain, to her husband, and to
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experts hired to evaluate her. The defense answer is that
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psychosis is genuinely a nightmare to reconstruct after the fact,
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and that people inside it do not narrate it in
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real time. That is medically true. It is also true
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that the gap is there, and every prosecution expert stood
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in it. Cora, Dawson, and Callan died at the end
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of that four months. Someone has to say their names,
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and I am going to keep saying them all the
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way through today. When we come back, 84 witnesses, six experts,
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and the ghost of Andrea Yates. Jury selection began July 20th.
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Opening statements were July 27th. The evidence closed on September 2nd.
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21 days of testimony, 84 witnesses, 74 for the Commonwealth,
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and 10 for the defense. Roughly 300 exhibits. The Commonwealth's
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theory was planning. Assistant District Attorneys Jennifer Sprague and Shannon
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Buckingham argued that Lindsay Clancy engineered her own window of opportunity.
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that she was the one who sent her husband out
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for takeout and a prescription, and that a woman who
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can order food and time an errand is a woman
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executing a plan. They built it on data, her phone activity,
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her searches, her Apple Watch logging her moving through that house.
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The defense theory was that she was in the grip
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of postpartum psychosis, made worse by a rotating set of prescriptions,
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and that the Commonwealth could not prove she was capable
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of stopping herself. Because that is where the burden sits
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in Massachusetts. Once criminal responsibility is genuinely in play, the
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state has to prove the defendant was responsible. The defense
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does not have to prove she was not. Patrick Clancy
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was the first witness the Commonwealth called. He has since
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divorced her, moved to New York, and remarried. Taking that
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stand was the first time he had been in a
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room with his ex-wife since the day his children died.
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She watched him. He mostly did not look back. His mother,
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Susan Clancy, testified for the defense and told the jury
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her former daughter-in-law had been begging for help. When she
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left the stand, reporters described her pausing as she passed Lindsay,
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trying to catch her eye and giving her a small nod.
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The medical examiner's testimony broke Clancy. When the doctor began
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describing the ligature marks on each child's neck, she said
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out loud that she could not do this, and the
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judge stopped the proceedings until she could compose herself. That
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happened more than once. And then there were the experts.
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And this is where the case actually lived. For the defense, Dr.
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Philip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist who has testified in some
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of the most notorious cases in American history, including Jeffrey Dahmer,
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Timothy McVeigh, and both criminal trials of Andrea Yates. Resnick
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told this jury Clancy was frankly psychotic, that she was
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in a dream state, and that it was almost as
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though she were a puppet with someone else pulling the strings.
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He described what she did using two clinical terms, altruistic filicide,
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a parent killing a child out of a distorted belief
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that it is merciful, and acutely psychotic filicide. For the Commonwealth,
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three men. Dr. Avram Mack said what she had was
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a major depressive episode, not psychosis, and that she could
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tell right from wrong. His most damaging testimony was about
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three words. Clancy told him that while she was killing
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her children, she said, go to God. Mack's reading was
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that this showed she understood those children were innocents and
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that what she was doing was the opposite. Dr. Kirk Heilbrun,
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a forensic psychologist, told the jury that on several points
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her account more closely resembled exaggerated or fabricated hallucinations. He
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also testified that a voice appearing only during the roughly
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18 minutes in which the children were killed and never
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before or after would be highly unusual. But the same
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witness also told that jury she is still grieving, still
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in mourning for those children, and that he would not
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describe her as self-centered. And Dr. Gregory Sathoff, a senior
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psychiatrist with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit, spent about 11
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hours interviewing her. His testimony was the most specific attack
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on the voice, that she had never reported hearing one
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before or since, that she described it as constant rather
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than intermittent, and that it stopped the moment the children
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were dead. Committing the act, he told the jury, is
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not curative of a hallucination, and he had never seen that.
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Reddington's answer to all three was the same, and it
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worked well enough to hang a jury. He went at
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their credentials. He got Mack to acknowledge this was roughly
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the third time in his career he had testified on
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criminal responsibility. He got Heilbrun on his lack of experience
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actually treating postpartum psychosis. He got Sathoff to concede his
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published work is mostly about terrorism, not postpartum illness, and
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that he did not interview Clancy until more than three
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years after the children died. And he had one more thing.
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Two of the Commonwealth's experts work for a firm called
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Park Deets and Associates. Park Deets was the prosecution's expert
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at Andrea Yates' first trial, the one where she was convicted.
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His testimony turned out to be inaccurate, and that inaccuracy
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is why that conviction was thrown out. At her second trial,
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Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity. The
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Yates case shadowed this entire trial. Resnick testified in both
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of hers. Two prosecution experts came from Dietz's firm, and
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a nurse who once worked alongside Lindsay Clancy on a
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labor and delivery floor testified that years earlier the two
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of them had discussed Andrea Yates, and that Clancy cried
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about it and said she could not understand how any
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mother could hurt her children. That testimony is either the
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most damning thing in this case or the most heartbreaking,
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depending entirely on which conclusion you have already reached. Both
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readings are available, which is a fair description of the
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entire trial. And I want to note the one thing
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all six experts agreed on, because it got lost constantly
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in the coverage. Every single one of them, defense and prosecution,
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testified that Lindsay Clancy was suffering from a serious mental
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disease or defect. Nobody argued she was well. The dispute
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was never whether she was ill. It was whether the
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specific illness she had took away her ability to know
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it was wrong or her ability to stop. That is
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a much narrower door than most people assume, and it
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is why this case was always going to be hard.
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Two more things you should know about. The first is
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the charge conference, which almost nobody covered and which mattered enormously.
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At the very end, over the Commonwealth's objection, Sullivan agreed
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to give the jury a manslaughter option. So they went
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in with five choices. First degree murder, second degree murder, manslaughter,
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not guilty, and not criminally responsible. A middle option is
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supposed to prevent a hung jury. Remember that. The second
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