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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Michael Casey

Trial begins for Lindsay Clancy, mother on trial in deaths of her 3 children

Children Killed Postpartum Defense - (USA Today 2026)

In the months after the birth of her third child, Lindsay Clancy 's mental health collapsed. Manic, unable to sleep and stricken with thoughts of harming herself, she sought care from experts in postpregnancy mood disorders, was put on multiple psychiatric medications, and when nothing worked, checked in to a psychiatric hospital.

Nineteen days after she was discharged, she strangled her three children at their Massachusetts home.

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