Lindsay Clancy Trial: Dr. Kirk Heilbrun Testifies — She Never Warned Anyone She'd Harm Her Kids

Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, a forensic psychologist called as a prosecution rebuttal witness, spent another day on the stand in the murder trial of 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 bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She has pleaded not guilty and is mounting an insanity defense, with attorney Kevin Reddington arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication at the time of the killings.
Cross-examination resumed after a morning recess, and Reddington kept working the same angle he's been on for days — how severe was this, really, and why hasn't Heilbrun published on postpartum psychosis specifically. He walked through a list of symptoms and got Heilbrun to agree they line up with postpartum depression, all of which Clancy