What Lindsay Clancy Told Her Doctors She Feared

Sep 06, 02:00 PM
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In the months before her three children died, Lindsay Clancy was prescribed more than a dozen psychiatric medications, kept a journal tracking her symptoms, and told multiple doctors she was having intrusive thoughts about harming Cora, Dawson, and Callan. The defense says that history proves a medical system that failed her at every step. The prosecution says it proves the opposite — that a woman capable of documenting her own crisis and seeking help was fully aware of what she was doing. That argument came to a head over twenty minutes: prosecutors told the jury that Lindsay sent her husband Patrick to CVS and a Thai restaurant, then used that window to kill all three children in their Duxbury basement, timing a pickup order and a pharmacy run with a clear head. Criminal defense attorney Bob Motta of Defense Diaries sat through all five weeks and more than eighty witnesses of this trial, close enough to watch the reaction of the nine mothers on the jury as both arguments were laid out. He tells Tony Brueski which side actually landed — whether the CVS timeline convinced the jury Lindsay was calculating, or whether the defense's point, that organized behavior and psychosis coexist every day in hospitals across the country, carried more weight with parents watching from the jury box. 

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