A jury is to determine whether Lindsay Clancy is criminally responsible for killing her three children in 2023 in Duxbury, Massachusetts. She was being treated for postpartum mental health issues when she killed the children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, who was 8 months old. Plymouth County Superior Court Judge William Sullivan is presiding over the jury trial, which began on July 27 and is expected to last six to eight weeks.
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Warning: This case involves serious mental health issues and could distress people. If you or someone you know needs help, you can call or text 988 to speak to a trained crisis counselor. You also can visit 988lifeline.org or dial 800-273-8255 [TALK]. Lindsay Clancy researched self harm five months before she killed her children in what she says was a postpartum psychosis that rendered her incapable of understanding her actions. Jurors heard about Clancy's Internet search history this morning (Thursday, August 13, day 13) during the testimony of Kyle Pavao of the Massachusetts State Police. Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague questioned Pavao in direct-exam. In cross-exam, Clancy's lawyer Kevin Reddington informed Pavao that Patrick Clancy used his wife's account to access the websites, which Patrick testified to earlier in trial. You can watch the cross here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFlNcGAvfQ 00:47 "How long were you in the cybercrime unit?" "Roughly three and a half years or so." "And what is the cybercrime unit?" "It's the state's primary child exploitation unit. Assigned to that, or included in that is also a forensic branch, which deals with multiple other crimes other than child exploitation." 01:10 "Would it be accurate to state that you you are able to examine digital forensics like computers and phones that are related to other cases?" "Yes, correct." 01:27 "I am a certified forensic computer examiner. I'm a certified forensic Mac examiner. I'm a Cellebrite certified mobile examiner, and I'm a Magnet certified digital video examiner." 04:44 "Did your initial review of the extraction show a visit to a website entitled "Suicide Methods" on August 23, 2022?" "It did." 09:53 "Now, what is the Wayback Machine?" "The Wayback Machine is a website. ... It's created and maintained by the Internet Archive as a company, a 501 3c nonprofit. And what that does is it goes out on the internet. It takes snapshots of the internet web pages all over the entire internet, and then archives that so you can go back in later." 10:46 "with regard to this case and looking into how that site suicide methods was accessed, what did you learn, or what did you see when I when I went back?" "Yeah." "So I saw the first thing I saw was a Facebook visit at 940 that morning." "940 a.m. on August 23, 2022?" "Correct." 11:39 "There was a search in Spotify music for the singer Tom Hall." "What time was that at?" "It was shortly after." 12:42 "There was a Google search for Tom Hall." 13:35 "Could you see what happened next once the the Wikipedia page for Tom Hall was visited?" "So I saw there was an anchor on the URL to the death section. So an anchor would be put at the end of a URL, so a web address. So what an anchor does, it's a pound sign followed by a section of that page. So if you think of it as, say, you go on your banking website and it lists like a table of contents, and it has login, mortgages, rates. If you click on, let's say, rates, it's going to it's going to jump all the way down to that page, just to that section. So it's a so it's a table of contents that's going to direct you directly to a certain section of the web page." "And so, on the Wikipedia, someone clicked on death, and it brought them down to that portion?" "Correct." 16:34 "Could you tell how long the person spent on that page, the suicide methods page, or how long it was accessed?" "No." "Was could you tell what time it was accessed?" "Yes." 17:53 "I observed after that another Wikipedia page that went to the Grafton Bridge." 18:46 "Now you said that the suicide methods page was accessed at 9:45 a.m. What time was the Grafton Bridge web page accessed?" "That was shortly after that."