The Lindsay Clancy Trial: What We Know Now

What if I told you at this moment women on Tik Tok are angrily throwing ice cubes at their bath times? Casting spells and raising an insane amount of money because in 2023 a mother in Massachusetts allegedly strangled her three small children to death one at a time with an exercise band. I didn't make any of that up all of those things are true. You see 91% of my audience is male and you mostly find gentlemen a couple of amazing ladies out there may have heard your wife girl for insist your mom or whoever talk about the case of Lindsey Clancy. There's a lot of speculation in the case that it's causing a lot of people on Tik Tok to do some let's say very peculiar things. Well around these airports crime is fine. We're not actually doing crime most most crime but crime is certainly fun to listen to. Let's get one thing straight before we start postpartum depression is serious stuff this shouldn't be taken lightly. While researching this Google is even trying to get me to call a hotline for my postpartum depression with that being said I'm going to try and keep my opinions about killing three beautiful children to myself and just give you the facts of the whole Lindsey Clancy incident including some of the trial leading up to the recording of this video which would be August 20th. 2026. Let's get into it. On a quiet street in Duxbury, Massachusetts there's a house at 47 Summer Street that used to be full of noise. Kids laughed or playing in the yard having a great time. The mother of those children was Lindsey Clancy. She was born Lindsey Marie Musgrove on August 11th 1990 and walling for Connecticut. She grew up to become exactly the kind of person you want in the room during the worst moments of your life. She trained as a nurse and spent nine years working labor and delivery at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Colleagues remembered her as unshakable under pressure. The nurse who mentioned the new hires, the one who patients singled out by name later said she was the best nurse I've ever had. A coworker of seven years would later testify that Lindsey loved being a nurse. She was really good at being a nurse. She was often visibly moved even emotional at the births of complete strangers. In 2013, she met Patrick Clancy. They moved in together two years later in September of 2015 and married in December of 2015. They settled in the house on Summer Street and started building a family. Cora arrived in December of 2017. Dawson William followed in September of 2019 and in May of 2022 their third child, Callan, was born. By every account, Lindsey had weathered postpartum anxiety before and each time she'd managed it in the way a lot of new mothers do. She was doing therapy, exercising, seeing friends, touching grass basically. It never stopped her from functioning and it never stopped her from being in the words of everyone who knew her a wonderful mother. She went back to work after Callan was born and the family hired in nanny that summer to help out. By December, once it was clear Lindsey wasn't returning to the hospital, they let the nanny go. For the first few weeks after Callan was born, Lindsey seemed happy, energetic and enthusiastic. She was throwing herself into early morning workouts and hanging out with the kid. In August of 2022, though anxiety and depression hit her, she was having insomnia that wouldn't break and exhaustion so complete that her own parents flew in just to help hold the household together. Three days later on September 15, she had her first appointment with Dr. Jennifer Tuffs, who was a psychiatrist. This doctor who would later come out in court had been practicing independently for only about a month at that point. She had treated only a handful of postpartum patients despite marketing herself online as having expertise in the area. The diagnosis that day was generalizing anxiety and adjustment disorder. The prescription was 25 milligrams of Xoloft, which according to the internet is a reasonable conservative first move and won this doctor would later testify with standard first line treatment and safe for breastfeeding mothers. While Xoloft didn't really hold, Lindsey initially balked all of the medication wanting to try therapy first. By mid-October, it wasn't really working and the dose went up to 50 milligrams and within about a week, she'd gone to 48 hours without sleep. Her thoughts were racing, she was feeling foggy and increasingly afraid. At one visit, she said she might one day become suicidal. They pulled her off Xoloft and tried at a van and been a drill instead. Then they tried boost bar and hydroxysine. Then after an emergency room visit, mid-November for an insomnia that wouldn't quit, they tried trasodone, which was pushed eventually to 150 milligrams. Then they went to Prozac, prescribed by a nurse practitioner named Julie Paul, who'd just taken over part of her care. Then within days of those being prescribed in late November, she went to ambient rimmeron and clonipin. These were given to her from a provider meeting her for the first time. She told providers that the world has started to feel unreal, there was confusion, and some memory problems. She said there was a sense of being disconnected from her own body. It's like spacey, she called it. By late November, she was having full panic attacks and was recommended for a partial hospitalization program. Her medical care transferred, again, this time to a psychiatric nurse practitioner named Rebecca Gelotta. This lady diagnosed postpartum anxiety and started her on Sarah quill. Sarah quill is an anti-psychotic and the dose eventually climbed to 400 milligrams a day. Her depression screening score using a standard postpartum skill were landing in the moderate to severe range. This depression screening score was 17 out of 30 by the end of November, and then 21 out of 30 a week later, and this was from different providers accounts. She actually told a crisis counselor she was terrified of her own hallucinations. Twice in early December, she called a suicide in crisis hotline asking for help and was turned away both times, not because anyone doubted she was struggling, but because she couldn't articulate a specific plan to hurt herself, which is often the threshold crisis intake used to decide in voluntary admission. Her husband was watching all of this happen in real time, and he was scared. He told providers she was 10,000 times worse since she had taken medication and suggested they stop everything and start from scratch. Instead, though, her Sarah quill dose went up again. On December 12, she wrote in a journal, 2.5 volume, 200 Sarah quill, slept well, horrible thoughts and no motivation. By mid-December, she was writing things down that read like a mind and free fall saying things like "I will not be the same, I want to die." She also said the only option is to die. Around the same time, she told both her husband and her mother that she had been having thoughts of harming the children. Her mother looking very nervous, later testified. It was almost like she was confessing something she was ashamed of. Lindsay started sleeping in her mother's bed some nights like a frightened child herself and became convinced at points that other people could somehow hear her thoughts. December 15, later in court, was described as her "worst day." Patrick called Dr. Jalada's office in a panic to report a crisis. Lindsay had gone to an emergency department and considered admitting herself to McLean Hospital right then. Instead, on Dr. Jalada's recommendation, she entered a day program at Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. Patrick was driving there to see her and check up on her every single day. But roughly five days later, she was turned away. Doctors there concluded her symptoms looked less like postpartum depression and more like a woman who was dangerously overmedicated and possibly misdiagnosed. They separately ruled out the bipolar disorder as a working theory. Nobody apparently called Dr. Tuss to compare notes on any of it. On New Year's Day, 2023, she self-admitted to McLean Hospital, which is one of the most respected psychiatric hospitals in the country. Under the care of the attending psychiatrist named Dr. Alia Goodheart, she had reported difficulty with sleeping. She felt numb and was struggling with side effects from the drugs she was already on. She was then diagnosed with major depressive disorder and insomnia and monitor for possible bipolar disorder and sleep deprivation. Dr. Goodheart later explained on the stand that this can sometimes trigger a hypomanic episode. Lindsay denied having a suicide plan, telling doctors her children and her mother were reasons she wouldn't act. She ended up staying there for five days and was discharged on January 5th, 2023. The discharge notes described her inside and judgment as "limited." She left anyway because she wanted to be home for the fifth birthday party for her daughter, Korra. She was sent home with a two-week supply of Adivan and Tresadone. On cross-examination later on trial, Dr. Goodheart was pressed pretty hard on this one. They asked Had McLean, pulled Lindsay's prior records from her other providers and they hadn't. They were just stacking on pills. They asked were they aware she'd called to suicide hotline twice before admission. Nope. Goodheart's answer essentially was that psychiatry doesn't run on blood tests, runs on what a patient tells you. And Lindsay had in her assessment been a cooperative forthcoming reliable reporter of her own symptoms. For the next two-and-a-half weeks, Lindsay kept going to her appointment. She kept telling her doctors she wasn't having thoughts of suicide or of hurting anyone. And she kept trying new medications and on January 16th, she started McLean and told Dr. Tufts that bonding with her infant son had felt forced. Around this same period in a note on her phone, first written in late December and revised again days before the killing, she'd written "Medication stole my motherhood and my life." Also in that note, she described the earlier Zolloft increase saying, "I couldn't sleep a week." She also described the period right after starting out of Ann and Benadriel, said that's when everything started going downhill. On January 23rd, the day before everything happened, the murders, she saw Dr. Tufts one final time. They said she was exhausted and barely able to get herself out of bed. And she was still denying every single time that she had any thoughts of hurting herself or her children. Her Amy Tripleene dose was raised again on the way to the door. By the end of it, across roughly four months, Lindsey Clancy had been prescribed 13 different psychiatric medications across more than 30 individual prescriptions. These were issued by rotating casts of psychiatrist, nurse practitioners, emergency room doctors, and inpatient staff, who by nearly every account given her criminal trial were not coordinating with one another. Dr. Tufts alone wrote nearly half of those 30-something prescriptions. And the next day, Lindsey Clancy killed all three of her children. Let's go to that day, January 24th, 2023. It didn't look like the last normal day of anyone's life. It looked by every account gathered afterward a good day, maybe even one of her best days in months. That morning, Lindsay took five-year-old Korra to routine pediatricians visit. Dr. Lindsay Roser, a pediatrician who known the family since 2019, would later testify it was about his unremarkable and appointment as they come. She said Korra was well behaved and Lindsay engaged and appropriate in the two of them discussing a stubborn stomach ache that the children's laxes of might fix. Normal kid stuff. The kid was holding in poop and Ross Hurt said without hesitation, "At the stand, I always thought she was a good mom." That afternoon, Lindsay took Korra and three-year-old Dawson out into the snow in the backyard. They built a snowman together and she photographed it and sent the pictures to her mother and to Patrick. Normal mom behavior. We're going to get into what her phone was saying. This is all taken by police and forensic evidence. At around four in the afternoon, her phone shows her searching for children's mirror lax because the baby couldn't poop. Then she checked a drive-time estimate to a restaurant called 3v. At around 447, she called the local CVS pharmacy and nearby Kingston to ask about the laxes of availability. Angela Kraus, the store manager at CVS who took that call, would later describe it as a very normal interaction, nothing that sounded impaired, nothing off about her voice at all. At 453, she texted Patrick, "Is there any chance you want to do take out from 3v? I didn't cook anything. It's been a long day." He asked, "Well, what do you want, honey?" She said she wanted a Mediterranean power bowl and at 510, she called 3v directly and placed the order herself. Saria Sweeney, the host, that took the call, remembered it for the same reason everyone else did. It was completely unremarkably normal. A little after 5, Patrick left the house to run the errand, his wife had asked him to run. The last thing you remember seeing on the way out was Dawson on the couch, eating chicken nuggets and green beans. Surveillance footage picked him up, walking into the Kingston CVS at around 532. He called Lindsay from inside the store at around 533 to check which medicine to buy. She didn't pick up the first time, but on the second call, which was about 14 seconds long, she told him what to get. He later described her as sounding "quiet" kind of like busy like she was in the middle of something. He checked out and left the store at around 537, carrying pdf in a bag of skittles. He then drove roughly 10 minutes to the restaurant and cameras caught him walking into 3v restaurant at around 554. Sometime during this window, Lindsay Clancy brought her three children down to the basement, one at a time, and strangled each of them with a resistance exercise band. Cell phone and smartwatch data recovered later would show two separate trips up a flight of stairs inside the house, clustered at around 533 and 538. This is data that prosecutors would eventually argue marked the two trips it took to bring the children down. Then she went back upstairs, she cut her wrists in the less side of her net, climbed out through the second floor bedroom window, and either fell or jumped roughly 13 feet to the frozen ground below. Patrick then got home sometime between 6 and 609. When he got home, the house was quiet and felt wrong. He couldn't say exactly why and his own words later he said it was just eerily quiet. He went upstairs and found blood on the bedroom floor and ear an open window and he called down towards the basement with no answer. He went outside and found his wife laying in the backyard and said, "What did you do?" She told him that she had tried to offer herself. He called 911 at 6.11pm after several agonizing minutes of spotty call service to delay the call from connecting. The 911 recording later played to the jury and never released to the public, runs somewhere between 6 and 7 minutes long. It captures his entire world ending in real time. You can hear him say, "Lindsay, what did you do?" Where are the kids, Lindsay, and her voice barely coherent said, "I tried to myself." He told the dispatcher, his wife had later tried to commit suicide, describing her wound at one point as not really bleeding as just an open wound. Then he said on the 911 call, "I've got to go check on my kids." And that's when the call changes completely. It's a father saying, "I need help in the basement right now. She killed the kids." He said it over and over with his voice breaking, "She killed the kids. Oh my god." Police arrived within roughly 7 to 10 minutes of the call. Officer Steven Hall, who is an 11-year veteran of the Duxbury Police Force, found Lindsay on the ground on one side of the backyard. He stated she was in an out of consciousness with cuts on both wrists and the left side of her neck, none of them actively bleeding. He said she was able to make pain sounds but not to speak clearly. The officer had Patrick screaming inside. He and officer Brian Josephine ran through the kitchen towards the basement stairs where they found the dad repeating, "I can't wake them up. I can't get them up." The basement they found them in the home, doubled as a gym and home office for the dad. Around the same time, fire capped in PJ Hussie, glancing through the basement window from outside, saw Patrick trying to pull an exercise band off of one of the children's necks. He immediately radioed every unit available, saying it turned very chaotic very quickly. Of the three children, only eight-month-old Collins still had a detectable pulse. It was very faint but it was there. Korra was found face-down with a band around her neck and Dawson was found in Patrick's home office area also with a band around his neck. Paramedics then carried all three children out to the ambulance. Jennifer Stratton, one paramedic later described scooping the baby up, inner arms and carrying him outside, and testified that he never regained a pulse in the field. Dawson wasn't breathing when the recent ambulance and firefighters formed CPR on him the entire ride. They went to Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth, where Dr. Mark Tenera Wicks worked on Dawson for roughly 40 minutes. They gave Dawson a drill in, calcium, and everything they had, but ruptured blood vessels already covered the boy's face from strangulation, and he never had a chance. Korra arrived without a heartbeat and without breath. Both of these children were pronounced dead that evening at 7.28 p.m. Collins Hart was restarted after 10 minutes of resuscitation, but he never breathed on his own again. Later in court, they showed images of massive brain swelling. One Boston children's doctor later testified when you see swelling that early. That means there was a significant lack of oxygen. This child was flown by a helicopter to Boston's Children Hospital, where he lingered on live support for three days before being declared brain dead. He died on January 27, three days after his mother strangled him in the basement of their home. Per the state medical examiner, the official calls of death for all three children, was "exficiation due to strangulation" with Collins' death classified specifically as a complication of that asphyxia. So Lindsay, despite cutting herself and jumping out of a second story window, didn't die that night. It came close, but what was left of her body when doctors finally stabilizes her, tells its own story. Her core temperature had dropped to somewhere around 82 degrees Fahrenheit, so a level of hypothermia doctors later called severe. She fractured her spine at both the cervical and thoratic level. The cervical injury was later described in court as a "jefferson fracture," which is a fracture of the topmost vertebrae, more commonly associated with a head-first landing. So a nose dive, basically. She was eventually airlifted for more advanced care and doctors placed a chest tube in her, gave her multiple blood transfusions, and at one point her heart stopped altogether, requiring chest compressions to bring her back. Forensic pathologists who reviewed her records later said that the wounds to her wrist and neck, where she cut herself, were superficial and not deep. They weren't life threatening on their own, closer to what's clinically described as "hazitation marks." It's a pattern that is sometimes seen in attempts. When the dust later settled, Lindsay Clancy was paralyzed from the waist down. For that moment on, she was a paraplegic with no expectation of ever regaining function blur of abdomen or walking again. In the years since, Lindsay has separately filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against several of the providers and institutions that treated her in the months leading up to the killings. This would include her psychiatrist and a nurse practitioner, along with McLean Hospital and other facilities. That civil case remains pending, held largely on the shadow of much larger criminal trial. That is, though, a part of the same underlying argument, Lindsay's defense was spent years building for the trial that's happening right now. That defense was a woman walked into a psychiatrist's office in September 2022, anxious but functional, but four months and 13 medications later, she was unrecognizable even to herself. She was arranged two weeks later on February 7, 2023. Right away, she played not guilty, and a prosecutor stood up until the court. She planned these murders, gave herself the time and privacy to commit these murders, and then strangled each child in the place where they should have felt the safest at home with their mother. Her attorney, 75-year-old Massachusetts defense lawyer Kevin Reddington, stood up and said the opposite that she's been thoroughly destroyed by more than a dozen psychiatric medications and that it was clearly a product of mental illness. He said, Lindsay Clancy, whatever she had done, loved her children. He then was spent the next three and a half years building that argument one hearing at a time. While followed, it was more than three years of hospital transfers, competency evaluations, and legal maneuvering, most of it happening far from public view. It was one procedural fight bleeding into the next. Lindsay had moved from Brigham and Women's Hospital to spotting rehabilitation hospital that March, and by that spring she'd been transferred again to Talksbury State Hospital. This was a department of mental health facility where she would remain without bail for years until trial. That may, following what's called a section 18 hearing, a judge ordered her held there for a minimum of six months. In September of 2023, a Plymouth County grand jury formally indicted her on three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She was ran again in Superior Court that October appearing remotely from Talksbury that medical facility she was in. Now she was appearing before the judge who would oversee the case from Menon. That was Judge William Sullivan. At that hearing, a prosecutor made a remark about the authenticity of her suicide attempt saying, "I don't think she took into account the fact the ground was frozen." Her attorney's response was, "It's readily apparent that this woman was a troubled soul." Through 2024, the case moved in small increments or hearings over the sheer volume of discovery material. There was a January 2024 motion approving a DNA cheek swab. That waived court appearances because the logistics of transporting a paralyzed, hospitalized defendant were genuinely difficult. And one of those hearings, a judge found she posed a serious risk of imminent self-harm, which became part of the record supporting her continued hospitalization rather than a jail cell. More than a year and a half after the killings, her attorney filed on December 13, 2024, in writing, that Lindsey would present a defense of lack of criminal responsibility. That's the formal name, basically, it's an insanity defense. This defense doesn't dispute that she did it. It conceives the act and argues instead that her mental state at that moment made her legally incapable of understanding right from wrong or incapable of controlling her actions, even if she did understand. You've all seen court shows, if the jury accepts it, then she doesn't go to prison. She'll be committed to a psychiatric hospital and definitely subject to periodic safety review. Rather than going to prison. That filing set off a bunch of fights that would eat up most of the following year and a half. There was a fight over how the government's own psychiatric experts would be allowed to evaluate her. Things like whether their standardized testing sessions could be recorded, whether the defense could at least watch the live feed, all tangled up in copyright concerns over proprietary test materials. At the same time, there was a separate legal battle with the New Yorker magazine. Prosecutors were trying to understand Patrick Clancy's state of mind and credibility, so they subpoenaed a contributing writer named Aaron Orby who had profiled Patrick for an October 2024 article. The prosecution was seeking raw interview notes, audio recordings, and correspondences with Patrick, his family, and friends. The magazine's publisher Condé Nast faulty subpoenaed as a violation of New York's reporter's shield law and the First Amendment. They called it a "fishing expedition," a judge initially cited, though, with prosecutors and ordered disclosure. The Boston Gloves on editorial board weighed in against the DA's office, accusing it of undermining the free press. In the end, after months of legal wrangling over improper service, the original subpoena was withdrawn and quashed. Prosecutors were told to reissue it properly in New York, and as far as public reporting shows, they never successfully did. That fight kind of fizzled out. Just something I thought I'd throw in there. There's a lot going on in this case. I understand why people are slightly confused. That's why I'm here. Going from the beginning to what we have today on August 20th, 2026. At the same time, there was a more human fight over how to physically get a paralyzed woman, two and from a courthouse for a trial expected to run six to eight weeks. Her attorney argued she needed medically trained two-person assistance for transfers that she can't use a handicap bathroom stall that she needed, and in his words, a nurse that's not a veterinarian. Basically, what it looks like to me is, hey, she needs specialized people to be with her at all time, so no, she can't come do this stuff. The County Sheriff's Office responded and proposed a standard wheelchair accessible van. Her attorney, Reddington, pushed back hard on that. Warning the court at one hearing, she's not a danger to others, but she's surely a danger to herself. If this woman kills herself during the trial, which there is a very real probability that could happen, it's on somebody and it's not on me. This dispute dragged on privately, wasn't open to the public through multiple disputes, but by the time the trial actually started, some workable arrangements had clearly been reached, because she did appear in court in her wheelchair every day that it was in session. There's another fight. It was over whether the trial should even be a single trial at all. In February of 2026, her attorney Reddington filed a motion asking Judge Sullivan to split the proceedings into two separate phases. Those phases would be one jury phase to decide simply whether she committed the killings and a second phase if necessary to decide whether she was legally responsible for them. In a March 2026 hearing, his argument was, if your honor denies the motion, we try the case the way they're all tried. Then I have an obligation to present evidence consistent with a lack of criminal responsibility, and that will obviously implicate criminal liability. Prosecutors countered that there's no constitutional right to split a trial, that the two phases would be nearly identical in substance, and that such motions are almost always denied. At the end of March 2026, Judge Sullivan agreed with the prosecution. His ruling was, the two issues were overlapping and didn't require separating, that splitting the evidence clearly between two phases would be nearly impossible, and a single trial was the most efficient and least confusing way to present the case to a jury. One trial, one jury. Gilton Sanity argued side by side in front of the same 12 people. In February of 2026, Lindsay made her first in court appearance since her rest three years earlier. Every other hearing before that had been conducted remotely by video from her hospital bed or her room at the psychiatric hospital. She was wheeled into the courtroom by sheriff's empties dressed in a black suit and set largely silent through the proceeding. Along the way, the trial date itself moved repeatedly from an initial target in late 2025 to January 2026 to February 2026, and finally after a November 2025 hearing, citing the sheer volume of expert reports and discoveries still outstanding to July 20, 2026. At that same hearing, Judge Sullivan also denied a defense request to move the trial out of Plymouth County entirely over concerns about how saturated local coverage of the case had become. The judge noted the coverage was available statewide regardless of the venue where the trial is being held at. We're finally getting a present time here by early July 2026 with the trial bearing down. The district attorney's office quietly dropped the three strangulation charges, not really as an act of mercy, but because as a spokesperson put it, the murders of the three Clancy children resulted from strangulation, the charges would be subsumed and in the murder charges indicted and therefore redundant. Now we're back to being left with the three counts of first screen murder heading into the trial. One for little Korra, one for little Dawson, and one for little Callan. Jury selection took roughly four days in late July. By multiple accounts, it was an unusually emotional process with a handful of prospective jurors reduced to tears during questioning. Some of them even asked to be excused on the spot with two of the 18 people initially seated being replaced at the last minute. Lindsay herself sat in the witness box during parts of the jury questioning so she could hear. In the end, 18 jurors were seated, 12 who would deliberate with six alternatives, 12 women and six men. The judge ruled that the 911 call that you're never going to hear, and the children's autopsy photographs at the request of Patrick Clancy himself, father, would be impounded, which means barred from being recorded displayed and distributed by the media. It was for the court in the jury alone. Yeah, the dad didn't want the pictures of his dead children getting out to the press. So on July 27, 2026, three and a half years after the three children died in that basement, the trial finally began. Let's talk about the trial that as of today looking at my phone about an hour ago, actually, there are multiple women, dozens of women wearing pink, standing outside the courthouse, holding up little hearthands, providing their support for Lindsay. Some of them are even holding their children. Let's get to the trial. The prosecutor who delivered the opening statement, assistant district attorney Shannon Buckingham didn't waste time, softening any of it. She called Lindsay Clancy in controlling meticulous and manipulative and laid out the state's theory in plain terms that Lindsay had deliberately engineered her husband's absence that evening, meaning the CVS run, the takeout dinner, all of it timed and requested by her, specifically to buy herself more time and privacy to kill her children before staging her own attempt to follow. Lindsay's attorney Reddington opened with a very different defense. He said, "Normally, I'd thank you to the jury and said, 'But in this case, God bless you.' He didn't dispute what happened in that basement he never would throughout the entire trial." A few days into the trial, the defense formally stipulated to most of the physical facts of the killings, specifically to avoid dragging dozens of redundant chain of custody witnesses throughout the courtroom. Well, he disputed from the opening was, "Why?" He argued there was no motive, no history of harming her children, nothing in this woman's life before that afternoon except a mother being consumed, slowly and then all at once, by chemical and psychiatric collapse that the people treating her kept missing, minimizing or catching too late. Patrick Clancy, dad, took the stand first and his testimony ran through the second day of trial. He described watching his wife disappear into her illness that autumn. He said in rough shapes, she wasn't talking much, she had low energy and was really depressed. He said the December medication changes were where her big spiral started. He described her disclosing thoughts of hurting the children and asking her in that moment, whether she thought she needed to be kept away from them. She said no. He said the next minute, she was making them lunch or putting them to bed. During the trial, he said more than once without hesitation that he never once saw her hurt them, not even a flicker of it right up until the day it happened. He pointed to the signs he'd taken as real improvement in the weeks before. There was a family trip to the museum of science on January 8th. There was a stay at Cape Cod Resort on January 15th, where her mood seemed noticeably better. There was a ski day on January 16th, where he felt comfortable enough to leave the younger two along with her while he was on the slopes with Korra. He testified on the day itself she was having one of her best days. During cross examination, the defense attorney Reddington pressed him gently on the medication question saying, "Did he watch her take every single pill?" He stated, "I was not standing next to her every time she took pills." Prosecutors for their part entered photographs of prescription bottles showing large quantities dispensed but comparatively few pills actually missing. It was evidence they used to argue she hadn't been taking her medication as consistently as the defense would suggest. And then, of course, there was the surveillance footage it showed the CVS timestamps, the restaurant timestamps of Patrick going in there, the drive times map down to the second. It corroborated everything Patrick had said about where he was and when during the stranglings. On day two came the 911 call itself, played for the jury and no one else. Lindsay turned her face to the courtroom wall and sobbed audibly through the entire recording. Reports state that several jurors were visibly shaken by that 911 call also. Patrick asked to step outside before it played and the judge warned the jury before in that whatever they were about to feel they had to set it aside from the evidence itself. On day three, they brought in the first responders. That would be the paramedics, the officers, the fire captain that was there. They described in devastating detail exactly what they found in that basement in the backyard. They forced the jury out to the actual house on summer street and small groups to see the scene before themselves. They went through the bed. bedroom. They saw the windows she jumped out of and the basement where the children were killed. Before returning to hear emergency room doctors described almost by B, the 40 minutes spent trying and failing to save Dawson, and then the 10 minutes took to restart Kalan's heart before realizing his brain had already gone still. On day 5, they brought in her private journal entries. These were read aloud by both sides for very different purposes. Prosecutors read the journal entries as evidence of intent rather than illness. Trees like I feel like I'm drowning every day or I want to die. The defense read entries emphasizing the same crisis but from an opposite angle. Entries like I have no appetite, I don't know what's wrong with me, I have crazy brain fog, I feel completely disconnected from my baby. On day 6, the forensic evidence was introduced to the court. Forensics like the blood stain pattern analysis walking the jury through the smears found on the bedroom windowsill and the exterior siding beneath it, debating openly in court whether the pattern was consistent with a straightforward fall. On cross examination, the defense attorney Reddington raised the argument that a controlled, hand-over-hand climb down the exterior would have left a continuous smear the entire way down the siding, rather than the isolated contact points investigators actually found. The toxicology reports came back clean of everything except her own prescribed medication. Toxicology came back, there was no alcohol, there was no illicit drugs, and nothing at all and either children's systems. A state trooper testified that four pill bottles were recovered from the kitchen the night of the killings, and that nine more described as discontinued prescriptions were handed over by Patrick's attorney nearly two weeks later. On day 7, the defense brought in a toxicology expert who testified that her medication levels were consistent with therapeutic prescribed doses rather than anything, approaching a dangerous or title concentration. They said that blood levels alone without clinical context don't tell the entire story. On the same day, the family's former nanny also testified saying Lindsey was a wonderful mom who loved her kids and was very concerned with her safety. Day 8 brought in the medical examiner's account of Collins' autopsy, whose injuries of course were consistent with mechanical esphyxia. The pictures weren't shown to the gallery or the public only to the jury, reports say at that point Lindsey Crite-Loudley and had to be walked through a recess, while several jurors wiped away tears of their own. They also brought in chorus pediatrician, three of the children's preschool teachers, a former father-in-law, a longtime nursing colleague, a family therapist, and several old friends. Nearly all of them, regardless of which side, had called them to describe the same two things in the weeks and months before the killings, that it was a mother who was unmistakably devoted to her children, and a mother who was unmistakably visibly struggling. That she had gotten thinner, quieter, and exhausted. Days 9-13 belonged almost entirely to the medical providers who had actually treated her. They walked the court through every appointment. Dr. Goodhart and Dr. Tuss laid out nearly every visit from September through January in sequence. They even brought in nurse practitioner Julie Paul, who, years earlier, had prescribed some of the earliest medications. They brought in nurse practitioner Rebecca Jolada, who had pushed the Sarah Quill dose highest of anyone and who testified that Lindsey never indicated she had a plan to hurt herself or her children at any point in their work together. Nearly every one of them, though, under crossed the gamination was forced to admit a gap. They had never been communicating with each other. None of them had ever requested a record from each other. There had never been a hit or release signed. None of these people who prescribed this medication were treating her and ever talked to each other. During the time, a mountain of digital evidence was produced to the court, too. There was a state police cybercrime investigator who traced a suicidal method website access on the household laptop back to August 23rd to 2022, months before the killing. There was a cell phone for Inzes Esper, who cataloged a stream of increasingly specific searches in Lindsey's final weeks, like psychosis, hallucinations, benzo withdrawals. Can you treat a sociopath? This is alongside notes Lindsey had put into her phone, like "I am strong, I will overcome postpartum anxiety. I'm waiting for the day I wake up feeling like me." The prosecutor's case ended on day 14 after calling roughly 70 witnesses across 13 days on trial. Its final witness was a digital forensic expert who walked the jury through Apple Watch data. This data was heart rate elevated through the afternoon of January 24th, then two separate flights of stairs climbed within a five minute window, around 5.33 and 5.38 pm. Along with phone searches from days earlier, reading ketamine for suicidal, ideation, and symptoms of postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors used that data to argue their central theory outright that Lindsey had planned that evening to take her on life and had decided in that same window to take her children with her rather than leave them motherless. Immediately after the prosecution arrested, the defense attorney read to ask the judge for an outright acquittal. He argued that the evidence clearly and unequivocally showed a woman suffering from mental illness rather than committing a calculated crime. The judge outright denied that and the case moved on to the defense. What followed over the final three days covered here was the defense's most direct answer to the insanity question. Family members then took to the stand. Her sister who is a social worker described Lindsey as feeling numb and feeling hopeless in the weeks before and at a birthday party two weeks before the killing simply going through the motions. Lindsey's mother took to the stand describing a desperate October text that read, "I'm really sick, something is wrong, I don't want to be alone." That's when her mom flew back to stay with her for a week. Her mother said weeks later, "Lindsay looked at both her and Patrick and said nervously I have to tell you guys something that she was having thoughts of harming the children." Her former mother in law took to the stand who was a nurse of 40 years and read into the record a text Lindsey had sent her that said, "I'm not okay and I'm terrified of taking meds tonight." She said, "Lindsay was struggling. We're all very concerned about her." A forensic psychiatrist who reviewed her medical file testified that the records were thin, heavy-on-check boxes in light on real clinical narrative and that no one along the way had ever run basic blood or thyroid tests that might have caught a physical cause for what was happening to her. He raised bipolar disorder as a serious, under-exploid possibility and noted that antidepressants alone are considered the wrong treatment for bipolar depression which typically calls for mood stabilizers instead. A forensic pathologist appeared by video and walked the jury back through the physical evidence of the jump itself. Several evidence like the spinal fracture, the severe hypothermia from laying outside in the winter and the hesitation marks on her wrist and neck. They testified that all of this was consistent with a genuine suicide attempt. On cross-examination, prosecutors pushed back hard though, pointing out that despite a roughly 13-footfall in the frozen ground, there was no bump, no scrape, no bleeding on her brain at all. Reports say the single most important defense witness was a forensic psychologist named Dr. Paul Ziesel. He was the only expert on either side who had actually spent meaningful time with Lindsey and person, meeting with her more than 45 times beginning just days after the killing, continuing through her transfer to Tukesbury Medical Facility. He testified that standard psychological testing showed no evidence whatsoever that she was faking or exaggerating her symptoms. He stated she was not faking, she presented as an honest citizen. Andy prescribed in detail a phone call he personally facilitated between Lindsey and Patrick from her hospital bed in early February 2023, which would be about two weeks after the killings, where she told her husband that she loved him but struggled to express any emotion and disclosure. She also disclosed for the first time that she'd heard a male voice ordering her and telling her that she had no choice, that she had to kill her children and then herself. His diagnosis delivered near the very end of the testimony was she had bipolar disorder with postpartum psychosis. His opinion stated plainly to the jury was that on January 24th, 2023, Lindsey Clancy was unable to tell right from wrong and unable to conform her behavior to the law, even if she had understood it. Cross-acuters came after that testimony hard during cross-examination. They asked him directly, does any medical record from any of the dozen plus providers who saw her during the five months before the killing document her hearing a voice telling her to kill anyone? Zizel had to concede that that was nowhere. That specific detail existed only in what she told him weeks after the fact not in anything she told a single doctor beforehand. The prosecution made a point where if she did ever hear these voices, did she ever seek help for them? And in the most recent day covered here in this video, just me talking about everything that happened, the trial did something pretty unusual. Partway through the afternoon with no explanation offered to the jury of the press, the judge sent everyone home early, citing only an unforeseen circumstance. The judge told jurors not to speculate about why. More resumed the next morning as though nothing had happened and right now whatever it was hasn't become public. That's roughly where the record currently stands and as of today, I believe it's the 16th day of trial. It's the middle of the defense's case, there have been no closing arguments. No verdict has been reached and the judge has indicated that the trial could run several more weeks before it's over. Without putting my own opinions in here, I said at the beginning, I wasn't going to put my own opinions in here. I just wanted to lay out the facts that they have right now, the facts available to the public. Because the trial isn't over yet, we're just going to have to wait and see what happens. I just want everyone to remember TikTok is not a reliable source, just like a guy on YouTube isn't a very reliable source other than I read exactly what is out there at the moment. And that's all I have for this episode of Crime is fun.