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Edward Helmore

Lindsay Clancy had ‘thoughts of harming the children’, her mother testifies at trial

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Lindsay Clancy during her trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Monday 17 August 2026. Photograph: Greg Derr/Pool The Patriot Ledger/AP

The defense in the Lindsay Clancy filicide case called the defendant’s mother as one of its first witnesses Monday, after three weeks of prosecution evidence laid out, in often harrowing detail, events surrounding Clancy’s killing of her three children.

Under questioning from defense attorney Kevin Reddington, Clancy’s mother, Paula Musgrove, testified that her daughter’s statements and actions had unsettled her in the months leading up to 24 January 2023.

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