Her legal team has argued<\/a> she was “suffering from psychosis at the time” and does not dispute she carried out the killings.<\/p>\nClancy, who has attended both days of her ex-husband’s testimony – seated in a wheelchair after being paralysed from her jump – became visibly emotional as he testified on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
The court’s camera showed her holding her lawyer’s hand, head turned away from view, wiping tears from her eyes. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors questioned Patrick Clancy in great detail over the incidents that day, as they seek to convince the 12-member jury that his ex-wife made a “calculated” decision to kill their children.<\/p>\n
Clancy recalled that on 24 January 2023, he left their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts and returned later with takeout food. <\/p>\n
Finding the house “unusually quiet”, he checked multiple rooms, including the basement briefly, before heading upstairs to discover the bedroom door was locked.<\/p>\n
Inside the bedroom, Clancy said he saw blood “everywhere”.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors presented photos of the bedroom and then questioned Clancy on his description, asking him to affirm that there was no blood pictured on the walls or bedding. <\/p>\n
“Correct,” he replied. “On those walls and the bedding.” <\/p>\n
Clancy said he then ran downstairs and went outside where he found his wife on the ground with cuts on the wrist and neck. He then called emergency services.<\/p>\n
Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham questioned Clancy about the severity of the cuts, asking him to affirm that he told emergency services he did not feel there was a need to apply pressure to his ex-wife’s wounds. He agreed. <\/p>\n
Clancy said after emergency services arrived and his wife told him his children were in the basement, he sprinted there next. <\/p>\n
Patrick Clancy testified that when he reached the basement, he saw his 5-year-old daughter Cora first.<\/p>\n
“She had a band around her neck,” he said, referring to an exercise band. “She was face down.”<\/p>\n
“I immediately ran over and tried to take the band off,” he said, adding that she was “unresponsive”. <\/p>\n
He then saw 8-month-old Callan next to her with an exercise band around his neck as well.<\/p>\n
Clancy said he then looked for 3-year-old Dawson and found him in his office, also with a band around his neck.<\/p>\n
“I knew he was gone,” Clancy said. He said he went “back and forth” between the children, attempting CPR until first responders arrived and took over.<\/p>\n
Clancy told the court his wife said to him roughly a week after the incident that she “heard a man’s voice” directing her to kill the children. He said he had not heard of psychosis before this. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors submitted evidence, including the children’s bloodied pajamas, before playing a recording of the 911-call between Clancy and emergency services – sending Lindsay Clancy into an emotional spiral.<\/p>\n
She dropped her head in her hands and began sobbing audibly, before the court broke for recess. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors will be calling additional witnesses to testify, and have said they expect the trial to last weeks.<\/p>\n
If convicted, Lindsay Clancy faces life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n
If you are suffering distress or despair and need support, you could speak to a health professional, or an organisation that offers support. Details of help available in many countries can be found at Befrienders Worldwide. www.befrienders.org.<\/p>\n
In the UK a list of organisations that can help is available at bbc.co.uk\/actionline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: This story contains distressing details and discussion of attempted suicide Patrick Clancy, the ex-husband of the Massachusetts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[102,6591,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-718680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-medication","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}