Jury in Lindsay Clancy trial ends second day of deliberations without a
verdict
[August 29, 2026]
By MICHAEL CASEY
PLYMOUTH,
Mass. (AP) — Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial ended a second day of
deliberations on Friday without a verdict in the case of the
Massachusetts woman charged with killing her three children in 2023.
Clancy doesn't deny strangling her children, but her lawyer said she did
it because she had lost her grip on reality due to postpartum psychosis,
a rare mental illness that can follow childbirth. In the months before
the killings, Clancy sought treatment for her worsening mental health,
including a stay in a psychiatric hospital. |
Lindsay Clancy watches jurors as they enter the courtroom to start their
second day of deliberations in her murder trial at Plymouth Superior
Court on Friday, Aug. 28, 2026 in Plymouth Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot
Ledger via AP, Pool) |
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Prosecutors said Clancy knew what she was doing. They say she
strangled the children because she was depressed and tired of
living, and made a conscious choice to kill them before
attempting suicide.
The jury began deliberating Thursday afternoon and met again
Friday, asking at one point to take a look at a knife that
Clancy used to cut herself and bags with empty prescription pill
bottles found in her house.
Jurors are expected to return to the courthouse Monday. Members
of the panel could find her guilty of murder or the lesser crime
of manslaughter, or acquit her if they decide she wasn't in
control of herself due to her psychiatric problems.
Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal
responsibility. She did not testify during the trial, but jurors
heard at length from medical professionals who treated her, as
well as from friends and relatives she had told about her mental
health problems.
Jurors also heard from medical experts called by prosecutors and
the defense who disagreed about her likely state of mind when
she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy, ages 5, 3 and 8
months, at their Massachusetts home.
The killings happened less than three weeks after Clancy was
discharged from a psychiatric hospital. She cut herself before
jumping from a second-floor window after strangling the
children. She remains paralyzed from the waist down.
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