Lindsay Clancy Trial: Psychiatrist Grilled Over Missed Warning Signs Before Killings

Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the psychiatrist who treated Lindsay Clancy, spent today under cross-examination in the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother's murder trial — and defense attorney Kevin Reddington didn't let her off easy. Clancy, 34, is accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and is mounting an insanity defense built on claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Reddington pressed Tufts on the basics of suicidal-ideation screening, then pointed out something that should give anyone pause: no blood tests were ever run to check whether Clancy's prescribed medications were actually working. He also zeroed in on what he characterized as thin, inadequate responses to Clancy's own cries for help. Tufts testified she doesn't put much stock in genetic testing for medication selection — a position Reddington used to needle her about a postpartum-thyroid article she admitted she'd never read. She also confirmed she and Clancy had discussed a possible undiagnosed bipolar disorder, prompted by an extreme reaction to SSRIs, along with a partial hospitalization program that never happened. And despite everything, Tufts told the court she didn't believe involuntary hospitalization was warranted.

Prosecutors maintain Clancy understood what she was doing despite the mental-health claims. After the killings, she allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.

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