Judge Makes Big Move In Lindsay Clancy Trial

The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother charged with strangling her three young children to deat in their Duxbury home, continued Thursday with limited testimony before the jury was sent home early for the second straight day.

Supporters in pink shirts gathered outside both Tewksbury State Hospital, where Clancy is being held, and the courthouse, as her defense team pressed claims that postpartum psychosis rendered her not criminally responsible for the January 2023 killings of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington, entering the Plymouth Superior Court, remarked on his client’s condition: “She’s so beat up, and so sad, so this will really help her out, I think.”

The sole witness called Thursday was Sheila Cavanaugh, a chaplain at Brigham and Women’s Hospital who visited Clancy roughly 14 times after the killings and Clancy’s subsequent plunge from a second-story window that left her partially paralyzed.