The long-awaited murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the former Massachusetts labor and delivery nurse accused of killing her three young children in January 2023, has officially begun. Prosecutors allege Clancy strangled her children, who were 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan, inside the family's Duxbury home before attempting to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window while her husband was away picking up dinner. She survived with serious spinal injuries, while all three children later died from their injuries.
The case has drawn national attention not only because of the devastating deaths of three children, but also because Clancy's defense team argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, a rare but severe psychiatric emergency that can profoundly impair a person's perception of reality. As the trial gets underway, jurors are expected to hear competing testimony about her mental state in the days leading up to the tragedy and whether she should be held criminally responsible for her actions.
