Lindsay Clancy Murder Case: Mistrial Officially Declared

During the trial—which began on July 27—Reddington argued that Lindsay could not be held criminally responsible for their deaths as the former labor-and-delivery nurse wasn’t in her right mind due to postpartum psychosis.

However, Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham said in his opening statement that, on the day of the murders, Lindsay had sent Patrick out of the house on purpose before she strangled the children with exercise bands “deliberately and meticulously.” He said she then jumped out of a second-story window in a fall that left her paralyzed from the waist down.

Patrick—who has since remarried—took the stand during the trial, testifying that he’d left their home to pick up dinner and medicine. He’d returned less than an hour later to find “blood everywhere” in their bedroom and Lindsay lying in the backyard, per the BCC.

The 36-year-old recalled that Lindsay had “deep cuts on her wrists,” as well as “a red line across her neck,” and that he found their children in the basement. 

Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead at a Plymouth hospital, according to a D.A.’s Office news release, while Callan was airlifted to Boston Children’s Hospital, where he died three days later.

Patrick noted that Lindsay struggled with mental health issues after Callan’s birth in 2023, according to CNN, and also sought treatment after Dawson was born in 2019, although he shared “it didn’t last very long.”

He said that Lindsay’s “big spiral” occurred in December 2023 after she began taking a new medication, testifying that Lindsay had confided in him that she’d had “intrusive thoughts” about harming their children and herself.

However, the software salesmansaid he was never worried about the kids’ safety, as he didn’t believe she had “any intention” of actually hurting them.

While Lindsay herself never took the stand, excerpts from her journal were read for the jury, according to ABC 7, in which she’d written, “I want help. I want to be well.”

“I have crazy brain fog. I feel like I can’t make a plan,” she’d written in another entry. “I live moment to moment waiting for the next nap time. I’m terrified of Cal getting overtired now because I feel can’t help him.”

Paul Zeizel, a clinical and forensic psychologist who met with Clancy in early February 2023, also took the stand, testifying that while Linday has “bad days and worse days,” she spoke of her children often. 

“She really loves them and misses them and thinks of them every single day,” he said, per CNN, “almost every moment of the day.”

For more revelations from Lindsay’s trial, keep reading.