Lindsay Clancy trial live updates: Lindsay Clancy cries as nanny describes ‘happiest, sweetest, easiest’ baby
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Grisly new details about killer mom Lindsay Clancy‘s injuries were revealed in court Wednesday — sustained when she downed pills, cut herself and jumped from a second-story bedroom window the night she strangled her children.
Clancy, 35, doesn’t contest that she killed her three young kids in the basement of the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023, while experiencing a slew of postpartum mental illnesses.
The labor and delivery nurse is charged with three counts of murder and faces life in prison without parole if convicted.
Clancy’s defense argues that she is not criminally responsible for killing Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, because she was suffering at the time from the rare, severe phenomenon of postpartum psychosis exacerbated by a dangerous cocktail of 15 psychiatric medications, despite seeking mental health treatment for months.
Jury dismissed after half day of trial
Judge William Sullivan dismissed the jury for the day just after 12:00 p.m.
They are due back in court tomorrow at 9:00 a.m.
As the jurors were exiting the room, Lindsay Clancy could be seen wiping her nose with a tissue.
Jury sees short video of Lindsay Clancy’s baby drinking from bottle
The jury was shown a seconds-long video of baby Callan drinking from a bottle.
Lindsay Clancy’s former nanny, Elaine Rossi, took the brief video of the 8-month-old drinking from the bottle and sent it to Clancy on Sept. 9, 2022, shortly after Rossi starting working for the family.
Lindsay Clancy cries as nanny describes ‘happiest, sweetest, easiest’ baby Callan
Lindsay Clancy appears to be crying in court during the testimony of her former nanny Elaine Rossi who described Clancy’s 8-month-old son, Callan, as the “happiest, sweetest, easiest baby.”
Rossi — who primarily took care of Callan — described each of the children, including saying that 5-year-old Cora was a “girly, girl,” 3-year-old Dawson was “silly and funny,” and Callan was “the happiest, sweetest, easiest baby. He was just a love.”

Rossi said she knew about Clancy’s struggles with postpartum but she was never concerned for the children’s safety.
“I observed a wonderful mom who loved her kids,” Rossi said. “She was very concerned with their safety. She was very concerned with Callan’s eating and sleeping. She was a wonderful mother.”

During the testimony, Clancy sat in court with her head resting on her hands and her body appearing to convulse from sobs.
Rossi worked for the Clancys from September until around Dec. 8, 2022. Rossi was let go after Clancy decided not to return to work Thanksgiving of that year.
Nanny for Lindsay Clancy’s baby takes the witness stand
Elaine Rossi, the nanny for Lindsay Clancy’s baby, has taken the witness stand after days of testimony from law enforcement, doctors and experts.
Rossi said she started working for the Clancys in September 2022 and was hired to help take care of 8-month-old Callan three days a week from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. while Clancy’s other two kids were in daycare and school.
Rossi was hired so that Clancy would have help when she went back to work around Thanksgiving 2022 but she started two months early so everyone could adjust to the new routine.
Rossi said that Clancy left her very detailed messages in a notebook about Callan every day she worked.
Lindsay Clancy had ‘slightly elevated’ level of antipsychotic drug in system — but not enough to kill her: expert
Lindsay Clancy had a “slightly elevated” level of antipsychotic drug Seroquel in her system but it wasn’t enough to be toxic or kill her, a forensic toxicologist testified.
Dr. Justin Brower said all the drugs in Clancy’s blood, antidepressants, anti-anxiety and antipsychotic meds, were all in normal if low range in her blood — except for Seroquel.

That one was “double what you might expect … It’s a little elevated. It’s not in a concentration that I would consider to be toxic or lethal,” Brower explained.
NMS Labs, where Brower works, was only asked to analyze four drugs in her system, not including the benzos (or anti-anxiety medications) other toxicologists testified were in her blood.
But Brower was presented with findings on her Benzo levels and said those were in the lower range of what would be prescribed.
Lindsay Clancy had 2 antidepressants, 2 bipolar meds in her system after kids’ murders: toxicologist
Dr. Justin Brower, a forensic toxicologist at NMS Labs, testified that Lindsay Clancy had two antidepressant meds and two bipolar meds in her system after she killed her kids.
Brower said Clancy had Lamictal and Seroquel (both used to treat bipolar disorder) and Trazodone and Remeron (both antidepressants) in her blood.

We’ve reported previously that the mother of three downed prescription pills from bottles in her nightstand before slitting her neck and wrists, and leaping out her second-story bedroom window after strangling Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, the night of Jan. 24, 2023.

The only drug that was “elevated” in her blood was Seroquel, Brower told the jury Wednesday.
Then the court broke for an extended sidebar.
Toxicologist tells jury about prescription drugs found in Lindsay Clancy’s blood
Nicholas Roberts, a toxicologist at the time with the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab, is testifying about the prescription drugs found in Lindsay Clancy’s blood after she killed her kids.
The testimony comes after two other toxicologists testified yesterday that Clancy’s blood and urine tested positive for several psychiatric drugs.

Clancy was suffering from postpartum depression leading up the murders and was prescribed six medications at the time of the killings.
Lindsay Clancy had wrist cut 3 centimeters deep that required stitches: witness
Eitan Negri, a physicians assistant working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston at the time, testified he had to stitch up cuts to Lindsay Clancy’s left and right wrists.

On the right wrist, she had a cut that was three centimeters deep and required three stitches and on the left wrist she had a cut two centimeters deep that required one stitch.

Jurors were shown photos of the stitches on her wrists during the testimony.

Clancy tried to kill herself by slicing her wrists and neck and then throwing herself out of a second-story window in her house. She is paraplegic now.


Lindsay Clancy stares straight ahead, appears emotionless, as trial starts Wednesday
Lindsay Clancy sat very still in her wheelchair at the defense table, staring straight ahead, forearms on the desk, appearing emotionless Wednesday morning as the trial resumed.

She is wearing a long-sleeve ivory blouse, her dark brown hair hair flowing down her shoulders.
Seventh day of Lindsay Clancy trial kicks off with physicians assistant who helped Lindsay Clancy
The jury is back this morning for the seventh day of trial in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy
Judge William Sullivan told the jury they will only sit for a half day today.

The first witness to take the stand is Eitan Negri, a physicians assistant who worked at the Massachusetts hospital where Clancy spent a month after she strangled her kids and tried to kill herself.
Jury dismissed for day after testimony from 8 witnesses
Judge William Sullivan dismissed the jury for the day following testimony from eight witnesses, including forensic scientists, cops and a doctor.
The jury is due back at 9 a.m. and they are only expected to sit through a half day of testimony Wednesday so the lawyers can work things out with the judge in the afternoon, Sullivan has said.
Blood stain analysis expert testifies about blood at Lindsay Clancy’s home
Sherri Crook, a blood stain analysis expert, is testifying about blood stains in Lindsay Clancy’s home found after she killed her three kids.
She analyzed blood found on a rug in the basement and blood found throughout Clancy’s bedroom.


Clancy cut her wrists and neck after strangling the children and then threw herself out of the window of her bedroom, leaving blood behind all over the room.
Toxicologists confirms Lindsay Clancy’s three kids tested negative for any drugs, other substances
Alicia Zimmerman, a toxicologist called to the stand by prosecutors, briefly testified that Lindsay Clancy’s three children all tested negative for substances and drugs.
Clancy strangled her three kids: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan.

Lindsay Clancy’s stipulation agreement with prosecutors won’t be made public — for now at least
The details of the so-called “stipulation” agreement that Lindsay Clancy reached with prosecutors this morning won’t be made public for the moment.
The agreement — in which Clancy conceded certain facts tied to DNA and blood and their chain of custody — won’t be privy to the public unless it’s introduced to the jury, according to a report by NBC 10 Boston, citing the court clerk.
Trial breaks for lunch as judge tells jurors they will hear from ‘couple more witnesses’ in afternoon
Judge William Sullivan dismissed the jury for a lunch break after letting them know they would hear from “a couple more witnesses” this afternoon.

They are scheduled to come back from lunch around 2 p.m.
Defense questions why toxicologists took the stand after morning agreement that established facts
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer questioned why another toxicologist was called by prosecutors after the accused murderer agreed to certain facts of the case this morning.
“Basically, as the court knows, we agree to this, we stipulate to all of this,” Kevin Reddington said as he stood up to cross-examine toxicologist Lisa Yelle.

He said the sides agree to “the blood, the chain of custody, the testing.”
Then the lawyer asked Yelle, “It was a good test, right?”
She confirmed the test was accurate.
This morning, Clancy and prosecutors entered into what’s called a “stipulation of facts,” meaning the defendant wouldn’t contest the facts around DNA, blood and chain of custody issues in hopes of foregoing dozens of witnesses — which could notably speed up the trial that attorneys have said could take as long as eight weeks.
Lindsay Clancy’s blood, urine tested positive for several prescription drugs after killing kids
Forensic scientist Hillary Griffiths, who works in the toxicology unit of the Massachusetts State Police crime lab, just told jurors that she processed Lindsay Clancy’s blood and urine, which tested positive for several psychiatric prescription drugs, after she killed her kids.
Clancy had Seroquel (an antipsychotic) and benzodiazepines including Ativan in her blood, among a few other prescription drugs, Griffiths said.
The mentally ill mother swallowed prescription pills from her nightstand after strangling the children, and before throwing herself out of a second-story window.

The labor and delivery nurse, 35, kept meticulous records of the medications she was taking, the dosages and their effects on her mood and state of mind.
In notes from December 2022, the month before Clancy killed her children, she wrote four days in a row that Seroquel, combined with Valium, relieved the insomnia she had been suffering (“slept well”) — but also brought on “HORRIBLE THOUGHTS.”


Both Lindsay Clancy and Patrick Clancy, her husband at the time and father of her children, have filed lawsuits claiming her doctors failed to properly diagnose her and overmedicated her.
Patrick sued his ex-wife’s doctors for $1 million early this year, around the third anniversary of Cora, Dawson and Callan’s killings, for “overmedicating” the struggling postpartum mother.
Days later, Lindsay filed suit against hospitals, doctors and a nurse who treated her in the lead-up to her horrific act on Jan. 24, 2023, alleging that the “polypharmacy” of people and organizations tending to her all failed to properly diagnose her with bipolar disorder brought on by her third pregnancy.
The supposed failed diagnosis wound up “[exacerbating] her condition and precipitated a severe psychotic break,” she claims in the suit.
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer snaps at state trooper during testimony
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, snapped at Massachusetts State Trooper Jonathan O’Loughlin during his cross-examination.
O’Loughlin said during direct testimony by prosecutors that he collected a cell phone, knife and exercise bands from Clancy’s home but he wasn’t able to recover any fingerprints.

When Reddington asked him if he found any fingerprints on cross-examination, O’Loughlin confirmed he hadn’t.
“You could have just said that!” the defense attorney snapped.
Judge William Sullivan then sustained an objection from the prosecutors.

During O’Loughlin’s direct testimony, Reddington objected to his testimony on the grounds that Clancy stipulating to facts in the case this morning, meant the testimony wasn’t needed.
Sullivan allowed O’Loughlin to continue testifying, finding it helped give the jurors context.
Exercise bands used to kill Clancy kids were swabbed to determine if Lindsay was the only person who touched them: witness
Forensic scientist Maureen Hartnett was called back to the stand after the morning break, where she told jurors she took DNA swabs of the elastic bands Lindsay Clancy used to strangle her three kids.


Hartnett collected the three exercise bands, taking samples from the handles and from the center of the bands to see who was holding them and if anyone else came in contact with the center of the bands, she explained.
Jury dismissed for morning break following testimony from three witnesses
The jury was dismissed for a morning break following testimony from three witnesses this morning.

Forensic scientist, cop recount collecting blood samples, pills at Clancy crime scene
A forensic scientist is currently on the witness stand testifying about collecting blood samples from Lindsay Clancy’s wrists as well as from her home.
Maureen Hartnett, who works in the Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab, told jurors about swabbing the “red-brown stains” on Clancy’s wrists, then collected samples from blood around her bedroom and in her basement, where Cora, Dawson and Callan were strangled.



Hartnett also took samples from under Clancy’s fingernails and collected the clothes that were taken off Clancy at the hospital, she said.
The mother of three slit her wrists and neck, and swallowed prescription pills, before throwing herself out of her second-story bedroom window after she murdered her kids.



Prior to Hartnett’s testimony, Massachusetts State Police Lieutenant Joseph Rabbitt told the jury about a search warrant for collecting evidence from Clancy’s Duxbury home.
He was questioned about several prescriptions taken from her home and about how many pills were left in each bottle.
Sleep training baby Callan made Lindsay Clancy ‘want to die,’ she told husband: journal
Shortly before trial wrapped Monday, the jury heard Lindsay Clancy’s attorney read heartbreaking excerpts from one of many journals she kept in the months before killing her children.

Sleep training her youngest, baby Callan, at around six months old was tearing her apart — though it was apparently necessary, as Clancy also wrote that she was suffering from “horrible insomnia and anxiety.”
“Hearing him cry for one-plus hours and not intervening just about killed me,” Clancy wrote, adding that she had told her husband, Patrick, “I want to die,” while Callan was crying.
“I even said the words, ‘I wanna die,’ to Pat while he was crying,” the “completely overwhelmed” mother wrote.
A large portrait of the now-divorced couple from an undated maternity photoshoot has been on display in the courtroom for several days of the trial, sticking out of a bin belonging to one of the attorneys.

Lindsay Clancy had ‘complex fractures in her spine’: surgeon
Cristina Carpio, a surgeon at South Shore Hospital, testified about treating Lindsay Clancy before she was transferred to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

The doctor said imaging showed that Clancy had “complex fractures in her spine” and that she “needed a higher level of care.”

Clancy tried to kill herself by throwing herself from a second-story window in her Duxbury home after she strangled her three kids. She is now partially paralyzed and wheelchair bound.
Lindsay Clancy answers judge’s questions — marking first time killer mom speaks on record at trial: video
Lindsay Clancy answered many questions the judge posed to her this morning before the jury was brought in — marking a rare occasion of her speaking in court.

Clancy has been seen leaning over and speaking to her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, throughout the trial, but she hasn’t spoken to address the court on the record since the trial began over a week ago.
Lindsay Clancy speaks to judge outside of jury’s presence
The trial kicked off today with Lindsay Clancy answering a slew of Judge William Sullivan’s questions about how she is agreeing to “stipulated facts” in the case to avoid the prosecution calling certain witnesses to testify.
“You agree that the Commonwealth doesn’t have to prove the facts that are in the stipulation?” Sullivan asked.

“Yes, your honor,” Clancy said, nodding her head.
“You are basically relieving the Commonwealth of its burden to prove certain facts. Is that what you want to do?” the judge asked.
“Yes, your honor,” Clancy said again.
The former labor and delivery nurse is wearing a pink short-sleeve blouse and a headband today.

After the judge asked the series of questions, Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, said: “We have not contested the government’s case in chief” — meaning the defense isn’t arguing against the facts of prosecution’s case, the witnesses they call and the evidence they present.
Instead, the case is centering on Clancy’s mental state, and whether she was cold and calculating in carrying out the murders, or in the throes of severe postpartum psychosis, as the defense has argued.
Reddington said the point was to relieve “the government of having to bring in dozens of witnesses to prove chain of custody of bloods, fluids and all of that.”
He added that they were agreeing to evidence including blood, DNA and the exercise bands that Clancy used to strangle the kids.

Reddington has said that he’s not contesting that Clancy killed her kids, but is instead going to ask the jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity, on the grounds she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time.
The stipulation — or the facts that Clancy has agreed to — could significantly shorten the trial as many witnesses will no longer be required to testify to prove those facts.
Lindsay Clancy revealed she was ‘desperate to get mental break from taking care of everyone’ 2 months before killing kids
Lindsay Clancy wrote in her journal two months before killing her three young kids that she was “so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone,” jurors learned at her murder trial Monday.
The 35-year-old Boston-area mom documented having “horrible insomnia and anxiety” and being wracked with guilt over her choice to stop breastfeeding her 8-month-old son and sleep train him in journal entries before the murder.

On Nov. 18, 2023, two months before she strangled her kids with elastic workout bands, she wrote: “It’s like I’m so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to make something physically wrong with me.”