Aug. 7, 2026
Killer Mom Trial: Gutting Autopsy Photo, As Grandfather Testifies To “All American Family”
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RSS Feed The prosecution called a total of 10 witnesses to the stand on Thursday, but the day began with an emotional gut punch as the state medical examiner went over the autopsy of 8 month old Callan. Jurors had to view the autopsy photo which prompted tears and tissues among the jury and audible sobbing from Lindsay Clancy. The prosecution then had a series of witnesses take the stand from the family pediatrician, daycare workers, and friends of the couple testify that Lindsay was tired, but a good and loving mom. Lindsay’s ex father-in-law and grandfather to the children testified that the Clancy’s were an “all American family” and he never was concerned that Lindsay could harm herself or the kids.
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Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Friday, August seventh, and the latest in the Lindsey Clancy triple murder trial. The prosecution spent all day Thursday trying to prove that the woman who strangled her three young children was actually an excellent mom. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. It feels a little counterintuitive. They seem like they would want to prove that she's a monster, but they put up witness after witness after witness yesterday showing that she was doing well, loved her kids, and was a fantastic mom.
00:00:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had this conversation. This is so a typical.
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Speaker 3: Usually the defense is trying to prove that their client is a good person, a good mother, a good caregiver. But instead we're seeing the prosecution lay the foundation for this and the strategy is, as far as we can tell, that she was perfectly normal, that she was loving that how could she be crazy or psychotic if she was functioning normally, functioning as a loving mother. And that is, yes, counterintuitive. You usually would expect the prosecution to paint a criminal defendant, a triple murderer, as a horrible person, and.
00:01:21
Speaker 1: It's been established that she is a triple murderer. This woman. We can certainly you can make a debate and argument about if she's criminally responsible. But this person did physically do this to these three kids. We know that. How can that person then also be an excellent mother? The point here robes they're shot trying to show that all these people around her for even years, actually saw no signs that she was in trouble, didn't hear from her that she was in trouble, and also never had any point where they thought they had a concern about leaving her along with her children. That is the point the prosecution is trying to get at.
00:02:04
Speaker 3: Isn't that interesting too to think that from her friends, to her co workers, to daycare workers, medical professionals who were caring for her children over the years, her own husband, and yes, her father in law, not one person has testified that they believed that she would harm herself or her children.
00:02:26
Speaker 2: That's tunning.
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Speaker 1: So if that's the case, if you're a juror, or you then to believe, well, she was perfectly normal, so she must have been fine. She can't blame psychosis. If none of these people saw her depressed or anything, then maybe that's wasn't the case. Rose. This is the best argument I've seen the prosecution make. This is as close as they've gotten to trying to prove some case if you're giving some reasonable doubt situation of well maybe that's his I mean, that's the best proof they've offered that she was not unwell. It's just how many people around her that saw on those signs that she was unwell. But then they put up their own witnesses as doctors and say, yes, people in psychosists can present normally.
00:03:13
Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: I think the other part that they were getting out of these witnesses was that she acknowledged she was tired. So is the idea or the notion that she was just so tired she snapped and so she is responsible because she wasn't sleeping and she was exhausted. And we all know when we're exhausted, we're angry, we're quicker to anger, we're quicker to react. And they started to establish this a little bit. Look, they put up ten witnesses. They are going through witnesses like crazy during this trial. But they put up ten witnesses on Thursday, and it began with high emotion. The first witness on the stand on Thursday was the state medical examiner who went over the autopsy of eight month old calend addition to setting up the stage or continuing to prove, I guess to the jury that this mother was a normal, loving mother, they're also trying to appeal to the emotions of the jurors to just actually witness and recognize the atrocity of this crime.
00:04:17
Speaker 1: And then what am I supposed to do? Just get mad? It seems I don't know, or was it putting on the case. Your victims are just happen to be the ages there are, And I guess robes. You have to do this in any criminal case where there's a victim and somebody's been murdered, we see autopsy folk, we see this stuff robes, But I don't they're putting on their case. I don't know what's say. Just it seems you and I watch a lot of horror movies and it gets to a point sometimes where I think, Okay, this is gratuitous and we don't need this as the audience. It just I don't know what how you're being helped to prove your case by showing an autopsy photo of an eight month old that we already know was strangled to death.
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Speaker 3: Yes, because in that photo you see and yes, Podo was passed around to jurors and there were visible abrasions to his neck. He died by mechanicalist Phixia. And look, Lindsay was visibly and audibly sobbing. But of note, the reporters in the room described the jurors and they said both the men and the women in the jury pool were wiping tears away with tissues. But they also noted that they were paying very close attention, taking notes as they were listening to the autopsy, listen and watching the photos. And I thought this was interesting. They said there was a noticeable look of relief on the jurors faces when the medical examiner left the stand and the judge actually called a recess, and they said, as Lindsay Clancy was being rolled out of the courtroom, the sobbing just got even louder.
00:05:51
Speaker 1: Who I don't know, Yes, you have to pone in your case. Is is just a horrific one. I don't know if anybody's ever been to the funeral child before, but it's just it's too much. It's too much to see a child in that state, and to think of an eight month old I can imagine what that picture looked like, but they were required, they had to look at it and almost study it. It's just what a horrible Again, every day at this trial you think, Wow, can't get any more emotional than that, and then.
00:06:25
Speaker 2: Somehow it does yesterday. And then so.
00:06:28
Speaker 3: After that they took the break and then the family pediatrician gets up. She actually saw Lindsay and Clara hours before the murders because remember Clara was having issues. Sorry, Cora, did I say, Clara? Yes? Sorry, Cora saw Lindsay and Cora hours before the murders because Cora was having some issues with the restroom and so yeah, the doctor said that Cora was perfectly well behaved and mom seemed appropriate as well. And then they had the preschool teachers who said they didn't notice any changes in Lindsay. There was two of them that took the stand, said the kids were wonderful. Cora was described as a sweet little girl who loved her brothers. They put up a former co worker of Lindsay's who worked with her for seven years, and look, she said they had lunch in November of twenty twenty two, and that Lindsay told her she had troubles with sleep at anxiety, but she again had no concerns about harming herself for her kids. That's what we heard from two friends of Lindsay as well. So this was just the one witness after another talking about how Lindsay was tired but normal, mentioned feeling anxious, but that's it. And the defense did get one of the friends to acknowledge that she did get a text about Lindsay telling her she had dark thoughts, but that was the closest they came to acknowledging that there was any sort of discussion about a mental health crisis of any kind.
00:07:53
Speaker 1: Can I put the juror in a position now, well, maybe she was okay? And ANSWER's what they're trying to go about again, there is I mean, how does that stack up against medical evidence and not see medical evidence at medical records that show all the help she tried to get in and get over years and certainly in the months that ramped up. I don't maybe this does mute it some. I don't know how much it goes towards cancelling out all the evidence that's been presented that this woman was in trouble.
00:08:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I do think just as a human being, anyone who's suffered mentally at any stage in their life, it's not something you usually broadcast to folks. You usually put on a brave face. Isn't that fair to say that? I think as a human as an experience, anyone who's lived enough life has gone through periods. And I'm not even comparing that to what she may have been going through with postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis. But I think everyone knows you don't necessarily air when someone asks how you're doing, you say I'm fine, and you might confide a little more to people you trust, but sometimes, yeah, yes, you withhold how you're actually feeling. I don't think that's unreasonable.
00:09:04
Speaker 1: As you pointed out the other day, especially from other women. And everybody that's been up on the stand has been a woman, the pediatrician, the friends, the everybody that they're talking to about how she was doing. And again it's not something I would have thought about. But would women on the jury in the jury box think the way you're thinking to where I hear this stuff and I'm sitting up paying attention, and women like you might think Yeah, that's exactly what a woman would do. She would keep it to.
00:09:31
Speaker 3: Herself exactly, and I think that that is something that is reasonable for juris And it'll be interesting to see if the defense tries to bring this home at least when they put on their case. But the ex father in law, the kid's grandfather, Christopher Clancy, was a big star witness on Thursday. He described Lindsay as very mothering, and I think this hit a chord. He described his son and his former daughter in law and their children as the all American family that landed because you see the pictures and it seems like they were this perfect family, and it just it hit it. It describes something that I think people understand visually and what we think of when we see other families that look perfect or that look like they've got it all together. I just thought that was he was describing, not just from the outside looking in, but what his experience was with them.
00:10:24
Speaker 1: Hey, everybody had the same experience. Great family, great mom, And I mean it's actually pretty impressive to hear how people thought of her as a mother.
00:10:34
Speaker 2: It really was.
00:10:35
Speaker 3: But this was the one interesting part of not one, but this was one of several interesting parts of Christopher Clancy's testimony.
00:10:42
Speaker 2: He actually described.
00:10:45
Speaker 3: An incident at Thanksgiving with Dawson, the middle child, and Dawson plays a role in all of yesterday's testimony because it was basically noted that he might have been the difficult child or the rambunctious child.
00:10:57
Speaker 1: Correct.
00:11:00
Speaker 3: I have a child like that, yes, and we all have to deal with those children a little bit differently. But he described an incident at Thanksgiving where he saw Lindsay get frustrated with him and grabbed his arm. And so the defense quickly on cross examination, had him acknowledge he didn't think she was being abusive, and he acknowledged that he knew Lindsay wasn't sleeping, and he attributed it to that. But I don't know how damaging that would be at all, that she grabbed her son's arm at Thanksgiving in front of the family.
00:11:30
Speaker 1: But the assertion was supposed to be from the prosecution that see, she had a problem with this kid. See she started to act out. See he was the problem child. See she had beef with it. They're trying to add there's very little evidence of excuse me, there's none. Yes, the number of times a mom has snatched their kids.
00:11:49
Speaker 3: I've pinched my kids before. I mean, I'll admit that, I'm not proud of it. But when, yes, when they're misbehaving, I have done a little pinch, like hey stop it right now in public.
00:12:00
Speaker 1: But we all grew up getting whoopings. Oh I did too, So I mean, I know it's a different time now, but just I don't know what they were trying to get at.
00:12:08
Speaker 3: I don't know a parent. Look, obviously you don't want to do that, but I don't know a parent who probably hasn't had that moment.
00:12:13
Speaker 1: Was I supposed to prove? What were they trying to do?
00:12:15
Speaker 3: We lost her cool and look they coupled up. Look, Patrick had a friend up there, Kyle Karney. He just said the same thing. Noticed no changes in her demeanor. But when the police sergeant this was the last, uh, this was the last witness of the day. He did add something to this, notion that she was frustrated by Dawson, So he confirmed that they investigated a Facebook message they found that Lindsey put up on a parent site in May of twenty twenty one.
00:12:41
Speaker 1: Say, and I'm to be clear here this message was was something they looked into afterwards. This wasn't something that somebody saw on Facebook and reported her.
00:12:52
Speaker 3: No, they're now investigating after the fact to see if there were any signs of abuse, any signs that she was not being.
00:12:59
Speaker 1: A good and this is what they came up.
00:13:01
Speaker 2: This is what they came up with.
00:13:02
Speaker 3: There was a Facebook message to a parenting blog in May of twenty twenty one. So that's what a year before these murders or is it more than a year? Yeah, to almost two years before the murders. So she put on this Facebook parenting site that her then nineteen month old, who is Dawson, was quote the most difficult person she's ever met. She said he constantly fought with her, but that she loved him. Her quote was every single thing with him is a battle and it has.
00:13:29
Speaker 2: Been this way for a while.
00:13:31
Speaker 3: She's reaching out to other parents in a community expressing her frustration with her kids. My god, I've said some similar things about my own children in moments this morning.
00:13:42
Speaker 1: No but ro I okay, okay, I don't. I just when things like that get presented, it makes me feel like y'all really don't have that's all you got. It makes that that's how it reads to me and this to any parent, any mom, the how much worse a thing have you said about some kid? Exactly?
00:14:07
Speaker 3: And look, the defense followed up quickly and asked, hey, okay, so obviously were you looking into whether Lindsay was ever abusive with Dawson? And the sergeant said, yes, we did, and then he had to say they found nothing. So the defense landed their cross examination very well with that acknowledgment by that sergeant after the damning text message or the damaging post about yeah, how she was frustrated with her kid.
00:14:37
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, all of our.
00:14:38
Speaker 3: Kids have been the most difficult person we've ever met at some point in their childhood.
00:14:43
Speaker 1: How many isn't that crazy? How many times every parent who's listening right now has had some statement about your child where they're the blank you've ever met in your life, like this is something I've ever met in.
00:14:55
Speaker 2: Life exactly exactly.
00:14:57
Speaker 1: So you know what, And again that still goes to me showing how much of an engaged and alert mother she was.
00:15:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, what I've learned so far from this trial is that Lindsay Clancy was an amazing mother until she completely snapped, which to me falls right in line with an insanity defense. But when we come back, we'll tell you why the jury was excused early once again yesterday for a pretty significant hearing, and it all has to do about who the defense can call when it's their turn. Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. And we are talking about the hearing that was called after the jury was excused in Lindsay Clancy's trial. And there was a big back and forth on potential defense witnesses and the evidence they can actually introduce, and the prosecution actually asked they would like to have some time to cross examine defense witnesses before they actually are up on the stand.
00:16:08
Speaker 1: I mean, what isn't that you aren't you supposed to do that way before trial?
00:16:12
Speaker 3: That was the defense says, I'm sorry, but these medical experts are going to be giving opinions based on evidence both sides have had for years, So what's the point behind this? But they are trying to say that, look, this is going to be an issue for them. They don't know who these people are, they don't know where their credentials are, and they were really pushing back and trying to limit who the defense can bring or call to the stand. I thought one of the more interesting parts was the judge was trying to figure out and he said this to the prosecution, I want to get your take on this. The Commonwealth has at least inferred in their case that this was not a serious suicide attempt, right, because the point is the defense is going to try to prove that this was a serious suicide attempt. The prosecutor said, no, that's not what they're trying to prove. Didn't it seem like that's what they've been trying to prove this whole time.
00:17:04
Speaker 1: That's what they've been saying the whole time. They say she's Spider Man down the wall. For God's sake. They said all of her wounds were superficial. So yes, that's yes. Yes.
00:17:12
Speaker 3: So they denied it flat out to the judge and went on to say, the position of the Commonwealth isn't that it wasn't a serious suicide attempt. It's that the methods that were chosen were insufficient to achieve the goal. I think the reasons for that will become clearer when the doctors testify.
00:17:30
Speaker 1: Huh, okay, well, wait, they promising us a case and maybe this will be it. Fine, that's perfectly fine. Okay, but they've been telling us for two weeks that it wasn't a serious attempt they witnessed after witness Yes, we try to prove that point. So now that seems a little weird. Did she say that on the fly, Yes, but it was very confusing when she was put on the spot to suggest that no, it was serious. It just wasn't sufficient, which is supposed to suggest what she wanted to prove it was a real suicide attempt, but she didn't really want to kill herself. Okay, I'm waiting. She said. The things will become more evident, she said, yep.
00:18:12
Speaker 3: She said that it will become clearer when the doctors testify. So look, the judge is still thinking things over in terms of who the defense can call, what they can specifically ask them. They want to bring in some three D mock up of the crime scene that the prosecutors are already objecting to.
00:18:30
Speaker 2: So I have a feeling there's going to be.
00:18:31
Speaker 3: A lot of sidebars, a lot of issues that are going to be coming up in the next couple of days.
00:18:37
Speaker 2: But this was another big headline.
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Speaker 3: The prosecution says it could rest its case as early as Monday or Tuesday.
00:18:45
Speaker 1: So that would have been two weeks for them. Yes, essentially a witness is putting on the case in two weeks. Huh. I don't know how. I didn't hear yet how long the defense is anticipating going. But it does sound like there's going to be a lot of back and forth. It does a lot of stopping and starting.
00:18:59
Speaker 2: It does.
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Speaker 3: But we have seen plenty of trials where there hasn't been a defense. There's been very little defense this one. I believe we are going to see quite a few witnesses come up and refute what we've heard from the prosecution. But a lot of what we've heard from the prosecution you and I have been discussing seemingly has bolstered the defense's case, or at least the defense has done a good job at basically taking the wind out of their sales.
00:19:22
Speaker 1: Ain't over yet, right, It ain't over yet.
00:19:26
Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: A full day of testimony is expected today. We will be on it. We will be listening, and we'll bring everything to you in the meantime, though we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Roeboch alongside TJ.
00:19:36
Speaker 2: Holmes. We'll talk soon
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Friday, August seventh, and the latest in the Lindsey Clancy triple murder trial. The prosecution spent all day Thursday trying to prove that the woman who strangled her three young children was actually an excellent mom. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. It feels a little counterintuitive. They seem like they would want to prove that she's a monster, but they put up witness after witness after witness yesterday showing that she was doing well, loved her kids, and was a fantastic mom.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had this conversation. This is so a typical.
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Speaker 3: Usually the defense is trying to prove that their client is a good person, a good mother, a good caregiver. But instead we're seeing the prosecution lay the foundation for this and the strategy is, as far as we can tell, that she was perfectly normal, that she was loving that how could she be crazy or psychotic if she was functioning normally, functioning as a loving mother. And that is, yes, counterintuitive. You usually would expect the prosecution to paint a criminal defendant, a triple murderer, as a horrible person, and.
00:01:21
Speaker 1: It's been established that she is a triple murderer. This woman. We can certainly you can make a debate and argument about if she's criminally responsible. But this person did physically do this to these three kids. We know that. How can that person then also be an excellent mother? The point here robes they're shot trying to show that all these people around her for even years, actually saw no signs that she was in trouble, didn't hear from her that she was in trouble, and also never had any point where they thought they had a concern about leaving her along with her children. That is the point the prosecution is trying to get at.
00:02:04
Speaker 3: Isn't that interesting too to think that from her friends, to her co workers, to daycare workers, medical professionals who were caring for her children over the years, her own husband, and yes, her father in law, not one person has testified that they believed that she would harm herself or her children.
00:02:26
Speaker 2: That's tunning.
00:02:27
Speaker 1: So if that's the case, if you're a juror, or you then to believe, well, she was perfectly normal, so she must have been fine. She can't blame psychosis. If none of these people saw her depressed or anything, then maybe that's wasn't the case. Rose. This is the best argument I've seen the prosecution make. This is as close as they've gotten to trying to prove some case if you're giving some reasonable doubt situation of well maybe that's his I mean, that's the best proof they've offered that she was not unwell. It's just how many people around her that saw on those signs that she was unwell. But then they put up their own witnesses as doctors and say, yes, people in psychosists can present normally.
00:03:13
Speaker 2: Yes.
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Speaker 3: I think the other part that they were getting out of these witnesses was that she acknowledged she was tired. So is the idea or the notion that she was just so tired she snapped and so she is responsible because she wasn't sleeping and she was exhausted. And we all know when we're exhausted, we're angry, we're quicker to anger, we're quicker to react. And they started to establish this a little bit. Look, they put up ten witnesses. They are going through witnesses like crazy during this trial. But they put up ten witnesses on Thursday, and it began with high emotion. The first witness on the stand on Thursday was the state medical examiner who went over the autopsy of eight month old calend addition to setting up the stage or continuing to prove, I guess to the jury that this mother was a normal, loving mother, they're also trying to appeal to the emotions of the jurors to just actually witness and recognize the atrocity of this crime.
00:04:17
Speaker 1: And then what am I supposed to do? Just get mad? It seems I don't know, or was it putting on the case. Your victims are just happen to be the ages there are, And I guess robes. You have to do this in any criminal case where there's a victim and somebody's been murdered, we see autopsy folk, we see this stuff robes, But I don't they're putting on their case. I don't know what's say. Just it seems you and I watch a lot of horror movies and it gets to a point sometimes where I think, Okay, this is gratuitous and we don't need this as the audience. It just I don't know what how you're being helped to prove your case by showing an autopsy photo of an eight month old that we already know was strangled to death.
00:04:57
Speaker 3: Yes, because in that photo you see and yes, Podo was passed around to jurors and there were visible abrasions to his neck. He died by mechanicalist Phixia. And look, Lindsay was visibly and audibly sobbing. But of note, the reporters in the room described the jurors and they said both the men and the women in the jury pool were wiping tears away with tissues. But they also noted that they were paying very close attention, taking notes as they were listening to the autopsy, listen and watching the photos. And I thought this was interesting. They said there was a noticeable look of relief on the jurors faces when the medical examiner left the stand and the judge actually called a recess, and they said, as Lindsay Clancy was being rolled out of the courtroom, the sobbing just got even louder.
00:05:51
Speaker 1: Who I don't know, Yes, you have to pone in your case. Is is just a horrific one. I don't know if anybody's ever been to the funeral child before, but it's just it's too much. It's too much to see a child in that state, and to think of an eight month old I can imagine what that picture looked like, but they were required, they had to look at it and almost study it. It's just what a horrible Again, every day at this trial you think, Wow, can't get any more emotional than that, and then.
00:06:25
Speaker 2: Somehow it does yesterday. And then so.
00:06:28
Speaker 3: After that they took the break and then the family pediatrician gets up. She actually saw Lindsay and Clara hours before the murders because remember Clara was having issues. Sorry, Cora, did I say, Clara? Yes? Sorry, Cora saw Lindsay and Cora hours before the murders because Cora was having some issues with the restroom and so yeah, the doctor said that Cora was perfectly well behaved and mom seemed appropriate as well. And then they had the preschool teachers who said they didn't notice any changes in Lindsay. There was two of them that took the stand, said the kids were wonderful. Cora was described as a sweet little girl who loved her brothers. They put up a former co worker of Lindsay's who worked with her for seven years, and look, she said they had lunch in November of twenty twenty two, and that Lindsay told her she had troubles with sleep at anxiety, but she again had no concerns about harming herself for her kids. That's what we heard from two friends of Lindsay as well. So this was just the one witness after another talking about how Lindsay was tired but normal, mentioned feeling anxious, but that's it. And the defense did get one of the friends to acknowledge that she did get a text about Lindsay telling her she had dark thoughts, but that was the closest they came to acknowledging that there was any sort of discussion about a mental health crisis of any kind.
00:07:53
Speaker 1: Can I put the juror in a position now, well, maybe she was okay? And ANSWER's what they're trying to go about again, there is I mean, how does that stack up against medical evidence and not see medical evidence at medical records that show all the help she tried to get in and get over years and certainly in the months that ramped up. I don't maybe this does mute it some. I don't know how much it goes towards cancelling out all the evidence that's been presented that this woman was in trouble.
00:08:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I do think just as a human being, anyone who's suffered mentally at any stage in their life, it's not something you usually broadcast to folks. You usually put on a brave face. Isn't that fair to say that? I think as a human as an experience, anyone who's lived enough life has gone through periods. And I'm not even comparing that to what she may have been going through with postpartum depression or postpartum psychosis. But I think everyone knows you don't necessarily air when someone asks how you're doing, you say I'm fine, and you might confide a little more to people you trust, but sometimes, yeah, yes, you withhold how you're actually feeling. I don't think that's unreasonable.
00:09:04
Speaker 1: As you pointed out the other day, especially from other women. And everybody that's been up on the stand has been a woman, the pediatrician, the friends, the everybody that they're talking to about how she was doing. And again it's not something I would have thought about. But would women on the jury in the jury box think the way you're thinking to where I hear this stuff and I'm sitting up paying attention, and women like you might think Yeah, that's exactly what a woman would do. She would keep it to.
00:09:31
Speaker 3: Herself exactly, and I think that that is something that is reasonable for juris And it'll be interesting to see if the defense tries to bring this home at least when they put on their case. But the ex father in law, the kid's grandfather, Christopher Clancy, was a big star witness on Thursday. He described Lindsay as very mothering, and I think this hit a chord. He described his son and his former daughter in law and their children as the all American family that landed because you see the pictures and it seems like they were this perfect family, and it just it hit it. It describes something that I think people understand visually and what we think of when we see other families that look perfect or that look like they've got it all together. I just thought that was he was describing, not just from the outside looking in, but what his experience was with them.
00:10:24
Speaker 1: Hey, everybody had the same experience. Great family, great mom, And I mean it's actually pretty impressive to hear how people thought of her as a mother.
00:10:34
Speaker 2: It really was.
00:10:35
Speaker 3: But this was the one interesting part of not one, but this was one of several interesting parts of Christopher Clancy's testimony.
00:10:42
Speaker 2: He actually described.
00:10:45
Speaker 3: An incident at Thanksgiving with Dawson, the middle child, and Dawson plays a role in all of yesterday's testimony because it was basically noted that he might have been the difficult child or the rambunctious child.
00:10:57
Speaker 1: Correct.
00:11:00
Speaker 3: I have a child like that, yes, and we all have to deal with those children a little bit differently. But he described an incident at Thanksgiving where he saw Lindsay get frustrated with him and grabbed his arm. And so the defense quickly on cross examination, had him acknowledge he didn't think she was being abusive, and he acknowledged that he knew Lindsay wasn't sleeping, and he attributed it to that. But I don't know how damaging that would be at all, that she grabbed her son's arm at Thanksgiving in front of the family.
00:11:30
Speaker 1: But the assertion was supposed to be from the prosecution that see, she had a problem with this kid. See she started to act out. See he was the problem child. See she had beef with it. They're trying to add there's very little evidence of excuse me, there's none. Yes, the number of times a mom has snatched their kids.
00:11:49
Speaker 3: I've pinched my kids before. I mean, I'll admit that, I'm not proud of it. But when, yes, when they're misbehaving, I have done a little pinch, like hey stop it right now in public.
00:12:00
Speaker 1: But we all grew up getting whoopings. Oh I did too, So I mean, I know it's a different time now, but just I don't know what they were trying to get at.
00:12:08
Speaker 3: I don't know a parent. Look, obviously you don't want to do that, but I don't know a parent who probably hasn't had that moment.
00:12:13
Speaker 1: Was I supposed to prove? What were they trying to do?
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Speaker 3: We lost her cool and look they coupled up. Look, Patrick had a friend up there, Kyle Karney. He just said the same thing. Noticed no changes in her demeanor. But when the police sergeant this was the last, uh, this was the last witness of the day. He did add something to this, notion that she was frustrated by Dawson, So he confirmed that they investigated a Facebook message they found that Lindsey put up on a parent site in May of twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: Say, and I'm to be clear here this message was was something they looked into afterwards. This wasn't something that somebody saw on Facebook and reported her.
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Speaker 3: No, they're now investigating after the fact to see if there were any signs of abuse, any signs that she was not being.
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Speaker 1: A good and this is what they came up.
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Speaker 2: This is what they came up with.
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Speaker 3: There was a Facebook message to a parenting blog in May of twenty twenty one. So that's what a year before these murders or is it more than a year? Yeah, to almost two years before the murders. So she put on this Facebook parenting site that her then nineteen month old, who is Dawson, was quote the most difficult person she's ever met. She said he constantly fought with her, but that she loved him. Her quote was every single thing with him is a battle and it has.
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Speaker 2: Been this way for a while.
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Speaker 3: She's reaching out to other parents in a community expressing her frustration with her kids. My god, I've said some similar things about my own children in moments this morning.
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Speaker 1: No but ro I okay, okay, I don't. I just when things like that get presented, it makes me feel like y'all really don't have that's all you got. It makes that that's how it reads to me and this to any parent, any mom, the how much worse a thing have you said about some kid? Exactly?
00:14:07
Speaker 3: And look, the defense followed up quickly and asked, hey, okay, so obviously were you looking into whether Lindsay was ever abusive with Dawson? And the sergeant said, yes, we did, and then he had to say they found nothing. So the defense landed their cross examination very well with that acknowledgment by that sergeant after the damning text message or the damaging post about yeah, how she was frustrated with her kid.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, all of our.
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Speaker 3: Kids have been the most difficult person we've ever met at some point in their childhood.
00:14:43
Speaker 1: How many isn't that crazy? How many times every parent who's listening right now has had some statement about your child where they're the blank you've ever met in your life, like this is something I've ever met in.
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Speaker 2: Life exactly exactly.
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Speaker 1: So you know what, And again that still goes to me showing how much of an engaged and alert mother she was.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what I've learned so far from this trial is that Lindsay Clancy was an amazing mother until she completely snapped, which to me falls right in line with an insanity defense. But when we come back, we'll tell you why the jury was excused early once again yesterday for a pretty significant hearing, and it all has to do about who the defense can call when it's their turn. Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. And we are talking about the hearing that was called after the jury was excused in Lindsay Clancy's trial. And there was a big back and forth on potential defense witnesses and the evidence they can actually introduce, and the prosecution actually asked they would like to have some time to cross examine defense witnesses before they actually are up on the stand.
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Speaker 1: I mean, what isn't that you aren't you supposed to do that way before trial?
00:16:12
Speaker 3: That was the defense says, I'm sorry, but these medical experts are going to be giving opinions based on evidence both sides have had for years, So what's the point behind this? But they are trying to say that, look, this is going to be an issue for them. They don't know who these people are, they don't know where their credentials are, and they were really pushing back and trying to limit who the defense can bring or call to the stand. I thought one of the more interesting parts was the judge was trying to figure out and he said this to the prosecution, I want to get your take on this. The Commonwealth has at least inferred in their case that this was not a serious suicide attempt, right, because the point is the defense is going to try to prove that this was a serious suicide attempt. The prosecutor said, no, that's not what they're trying to prove. Didn't it seem like that's what they've been trying to prove this whole time.
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Speaker 1: That's what they've been saying the whole time. They say she's Spider Man down the wall. For God's sake. They said all of her wounds were superficial. So yes, that's yes. Yes.
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Speaker 3: So they denied it flat out to the judge and went on to say, the position of the Commonwealth isn't that it wasn't a serious suicide attempt. It's that the methods that were chosen were insufficient to achieve the goal. I think the reasons for that will become clearer when the doctors testify.
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Speaker 1: Huh, okay, well, wait, they promising us a case and maybe this will be it. Fine, that's perfectly fine. Okay, but they've been telling us for two weeks that it wasn't a serious attempt they witnessed after witness Yes, we try to prove that point. So now that seems a little weird. Did she say that on the fly, Yes, but it was very confusing when she was put on the spot to suggest that no, it was serious. It just wasn't sufficient, which is supposed to suggest what she wanted to prove it was a real suicide attempt, but she didn't really want to kill herself. Okay, I'm waiting. She said. The things will become more evident, she said, yep.
00:18:12
Speaker 3: She said that it will become clearer when the doctors testify. So look, the judge is still thinking things over in terms of who the defense can call, what they can specifically ask them. They want to bring in some three D mock up of the crime scene that the prosecutors are already objecting to.
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Speaker 2: So I have a feeling there's going to be.
00:18:31
Speaker 3: A lot of sidebars, a lot of issues that are going to be coming up in the next couple of days.
00:18:37
Speaker 2: But this was another big headline.
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Speaker 3: The prosecution says it could rest its case as early as Monday or Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: So that would have been two weeks for them. Yes, essentially a witness is putting on the case in two weeks. Huh. I don't know how. I didn't hear yet how long the defense is anticipating going. But it does sound like there's going to be a lot of back and forth. It does a lot of stopping and starting.
00:18:59
Speaker 2: It does.
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Speaker 3: But we have seen plenty of trials where there hasn't been a defense. There's been very little defense this one. I believe we are going to see quite a few witnesses come up and refute what we've heard from the prosecution. But a lot of what we've heard from the prosecution you and I have been discussing seemingly has bolstered the defense's case, or at least the defense has done a good job at basically taking the wind out of their sales.
00:19:22
Speaker 1: Ain't over yet, right, It ain't over yet.
00:19:26
Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: A full day of testimony is expected today. We will be on it. We will be listening, and we'll bring everything to you in the meantime, though we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Roeboch alongside TJ.
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Speaker 2: Holmes. We'll talk soon