Lindsay Clancy trial today: After woman killed her 3 kids, first responders tell a jury what they found
PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- First responders offered jurors a firsthand account Thursday of what they found after Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and tried to end her life, during what her lawyers argue was an episode of postpregnancy psychosis. The two police officers focused first on Clancy drifting in and out of consciousness in the snow after jumping from her Massachusetts home's second-floor window. Within minutes, they were racing into the basement after her then-husband screamed that all three of their children were dead. "I can't wake them up - I can't get them up!" he frantically told the officers who, along with firefighters and paramedics, gave jurors firsthand accounts on Thursday of the aftermath. The murder trial has centered on Clancy's mental state at the time. Her lawyers do not dispute that she strangled the children with exercise bands.
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Kill the children so you can kill yourself," according to her lawyer. Patrick Clancy testified earlier this week that his injured wife told him the kids were in the basement, but she didn't say they were dead.
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PLYMOUTH, Mass. -- First responders offered jurors a firsthand account Thursday of what they found after Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and tried to end her life, during what her lawyers argue was an episode of postpregnancy psychosis. The two police officers focused first on Clancy drifting in and out of consciousness in the snow after jumping from her Massachusetts home's second-floor window. Within minutes, they were racing into the basement after her then-husband screamed that all three of their children were dead. "I can't wake them up - I can't get them up!" he frantically told the officers who, along with firefighters and paramedics, gave jurors firsthand accounts on Thursday of the aftermath. The murder trial has centered on Clancy's mental state at the time. Her lawyers do not dispute that she strangled the children with exercise bands.