Officers Recount Finding Lindsay Clancy’s Children In Basement

The 2 constabulary officers initially focused connected Lindsay Clancy, who was drifting successful and retired of consciousness successful nan snowfall aft jumping from a second-floor model of her Massachusetts home. Minutes later, they rushed into nan basement aft her then-husband screamed that their 3 children were dead.

“I can’t aftermath them up — I can’t get them up!” he told officers successful a frantic call. Along pinch firefighters and paramedics, nan officers gave jurors a firsthand relationship Thursday of nan aftermath.

The execution proceedings has centered connected Clancy’s intelligence authorities astatine nan clip of nan deaths. Her attorneys do not conflict that she strangled her children utilizing workout bands but reason she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, a uncommon intelligence unwellness associated pinch childbirth, terrible slumber deprivation and hormonal changes.

Prosecutors allege Clancy, a erstwhile labour and transportation caregiver astatine Massachusetts General Hospital, acted deliberately and should beryllium held criminally responsible for nan January 2023 deaths.

The grounds came aft jurors spent 2 days proceeding from Patrick Clancy and listening to his affectional 911 call. He remained connected nan telephone arsenic he discovered nan bodies of 3-year-old Dawson, 5-year-old Cora and 8-month-old Callan, aft returning location from an errand his woman had asked him to run.

Patrick Clancy has said successful interviews that he forgives his ex-wife, whom he viewed arsenic sick alternatively than evil. The proceedings marks nan first clip he has seen Lindsay Clancy since nan killings.

She remains paralyzed from nan waist down aft utilizing aggregate methods to effort to extremity her life that night. She says a sound told her, “This is your past chance. Kill nan children truthful you tin termination yourself,” according to her lawyer.

Officers Stephen Hall and Brian Josephine testified Thursday that they were each dispatched separately to nan location successful Duxbury, a coastal municipality southbound of Boston. Hall said they arrived to find Patrick Clancy yelling for thief from down nan home.

Patrick Clancy testified earlier this week that his injured woman told him nan kids were successful nan basement, but she didn't opportunity they were dead.

When nan officers followed nan sound of his screams downstairs, only 8-month-old Callan had a faint pulse, Josephine testified.

“Based connected my training acquisition from erstwhile incidents, I knew it wasn’t going to beryllium good,” Josephine said. They began rendering assistance pinch thief from firefighters.

PJ Hussey, a occurrence section supervisor, arrived successful clip to glimpse done a basement model arsenic Patrick Clancy unwrapped an workout set from his child's neck.

“It turned very chaotic very quickly” arsenic much ambulances rushed to nan house, Hussey testified. Duxbury firefighter and paramedic Jennifer Stratton said nan babe ne'er regained a pulse.

If convicted of murder, Lindsay Clancy faces life successful situation without parole. If recovered not blameworthy owed to a deficiency of criminal responsibility, she would beryllium committed to a authorities intelligence wellness facility.

In opening arguments Monday, her lawyer said she had bipolar disorder, and that antidepressants prescribed aft nan commencement of her 3rd kid worsened her condition.

Patrick Clancy testified astir his wife’s deteriorating intelligence wellness successful nan months starring up to nan killings. He said she told him astir intrusive thoughts of harming nan children, arsenic good arsenic thoughts of suicide.

She sought attraction from experts successful postpartum temper disorders and was put connected aggregate psychiatric medications. When thing worked, she checked into a psychiatric hospital. She killed nan children 19 days aft she was discharged.

Clancy and her ex-husband impeach her aesculapian providers of failing to decently diagnose, dainty and show her, according to lawsuits revenge earlier this year.