Trial of Lindsay Clancy, the mom who killed her 3 children, enters second week of testimony

Editor's note: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988. PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial resumed Monday with more testimony about the killings in a coastal Massachusetts town in 2023. Monday's witnesses included emergency room doctors who treated Clancy and two of her children, building on testimony some of their colleagues gave for the prosecution last week. Witnesses in ensuing days could shed more light on the mental health issues at the heart of the case.

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Scoop News DeskU.S · Published Monday, August 3, 2026 at 4:07 PM UTCUpdated Monday, August 3, 2026 at 8:57 PM UTC

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In anguished testimony, Patrick Clancy told jurors last week about returning to a horrible scene at that house: a bloodied bedroom, an open window, his wife on the ground below it, the children in the basement, throttled with exercise bands. "She killed the kids!" he told a 911 dispatcher on a call played in court. It says those clinicians told her to taper off the antipsychotic drug and then discharged her after a day.