Clancy Psychiatrist Admits No Blood Tests Were Run on Her Medication

No blood tests. That's the detail that stuck out most from today's cross-examination of Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the psychiatrist who treated Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother 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. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She's pleaded not guilty, and her defense — led by attorney Kevin Reddington — argues she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Reddington walked Tufts through standard suicidal-ideation screening protocols, then noted no bloodwork was ever done to confirm her medications were actually functioning as intended. He also highlighted what he framed as insufficient responses to Clancy's own pleas for help. Tufts testified that she doesn't consider genetic testing particularly useful for guiding psychiatric medication choices, which set up an awkward moment when Reddington asked about a specific article linking postpartum depression to thyroid function — one Tufts admitted she'd never read. She also confirmed discussing a possible undiagnosed bipolar disorder with Clancy, tied to an extreme SSRI reaction, plus a partial hospitalization program that was discussed but never carried out. Even so, Tufts said she didn't believe involuntary hospitalization was the right call at the time.

Prosecutors continue to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions regardless of her mental state. After the killings, she allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands that day and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.

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