Lindsay Clancy trial spotlights her psychiatric care before she killed her 3 children
Latest update from CBS News: Two psychiatrists who treated Lindsay Clancy, the mother from Massachusetts who's charged with murdering her three kids, took the stand Friday. Updated on: August 7, 2026 / 6:29 PM EDT / CBS Boston Psychiatrists who treated Lindsay Clancy before she killed her three young children in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on Jan. 24, 2023, testified in her high-profile murder trial on Friday. Clancy is facing first-degree murder charges in the deaths of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. The defense says she was overmedicated and suffering from an extreme episode of postpartum psychosis when she strangled the children. Jennifer Tufts, Clancy's first psychiatrist, took the stand just before 12:30 p.m.
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6, 2023, Tufts and Clancy met again, just one day after Clancy was discharged from a five-day inpatient stay at McLean Hospital.