Lindsay Clancy's Discharge Papers Said She Wasn't a Threat — Then What Happened?

Lindsay Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is on trial for the deaths of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — allegedly strangled with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She's pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is mounting an insanity defense built on postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Three witnesses this week gave the jury three very different windows into who Lindsay Clancy was before that day. Kimberlee Hardy, former Child Service Director at the Kingsbury Club, described a mother who was shy, reticent, and reluctant to even bring baby Callan around — she said she was worried about him catching a cold. On cross, Hardy conceded Clancy always seemed happy with her kids. Sarah Carney, closer to Patrick Clancy than to Lindsay, testified Lindsay had been exercising heavily and had grown noticeably thinner through the fall and winter of 2022 — but otherwise just "quiet."

Then came the witness that actually matters: Dr. Alia Goodheart, a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital. She walked the jury through how patients land at McLean — through the ER, either involuntarily under Section 12 or voluntarily under Section 10. Clancy came in voluntarily in January, unable to sleep without medication and struggling with side effects. Goodheart's own records showed suicidal ideation with no plan, no notations of psychosis, and a "minimal risk" rating. Clancy described feeling emotionally numb and rejected a possible bipolar diagnosis. Goodheart considered postpartum depression, diagnosed insomnia tied to a mental health condition — and cleared her as no threat to herself or anyone else.

That last part is the one the defense wants this jury to sit with.

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