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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Gregory Saathoff, a senior psychiatrist in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Analysis Unit, finished testifying in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial today. He was the final witness. Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprauge questioned him in re-direct exam. 01:14 "During the course of your many many years working in that system and treating these patients, have you treated patients with psychosis?" "Yes." "And does that include treating women with psychosis?" "Yes." 02:58 "And did you treat patients with psychosis during those 15 years" "Yes." "And did those include women with psychosis?" "Yes." "And in terms of your treatment of women with psychosis, were you responsible for diagnosing them with their underlying mental condition" "Yes." "Diagnosing psychosis as being one of their symptoms." 03:59 "The case report about postpartum psychosis that was written on the the medication interaction?" "Yes." "Are you asking how how those patients presented?" "Yes. "...one was an 18-year-old woman who had delivered her child and had decided not to take, or that she did not want to breastfeed." "So in those days, this medication, bromocriptine, also called Parlidel, was given, and we found that within I think just a couple of days of the time that she was given this medication, she became convinced that she had to kill her child, and I believe that she was experiencing auditory hallucinations." "And she was so distressed about that that she wanted to kill herself and was was suicidal. And that was what how she was brought to our attention in evaluating her." 05:37 "The other case, I believe, was somewhat someone another female, a bit older, maybe mid 20s, and she was also given this medication and also became psychotic." "For her, it was more a manifestation of mania. She was hypersexual with her husband, she I think was quite hyper religious, and she was in terms of her delusions. Those were more of religious delusions." 10:37 "you were asked about whether blood testing would be appropriate for a patient, and you said that it would depend on the the history of the patient, the symptoms, the medication. Do you recall that?" "Yes." "Okay. Did you see anything in the records about Lindsay Clancy that would have required blood testing?" "No." 11:57 "You were asked about Lamictal and the serious rash that could occur. You said that the serious rash is rare. How rare is it" "Approximately one in 1000." 15:08 "looking at the looking back to the McLean records, would it be accurate to state that her sleep got progressively better while at McLean?" "Yes." "And then directing your memory to the text messages that Ms. Clancy had with her mother from January 7 through January 22 of 2023. Would it be accurate to state that she she told her mother she was sleeping better during that time?" "Yes." 19:10 "I think early December it might have been December 1. She then went to Dr. Tufts, and Dr. Tufts wrote a note saying that she felt uncomfortable making prescriptions while Ms. Clancy was going to another provider" 21:36 "She decided that even though she had the prescription of Zoloft. She decided not to take it. The anxiety that she experienced after Callan's birth was more significant and lasted longer. And so she went to Dr. Tufts, who got a history of Ms. Clancy having taken the Prozac and done well on it, having seriously considered Zoloft to the extent that she she got a prescription for it, decided not to take it." 23:10 "after seeing the effects from the Zoloft and stopping that prescription, the various prescriptions that Dr. Tufts tried with the defendant, did you have an opinion based on your training experience about whether that trial and error process and what she prescribed and what she tried with the defendant whether that was reasonable ... Was it reasonable?" "Yes." "Ms. Clancy, after having the insomnia, was very upset and concerned, as anyone would be. I think that was around October 21, and so Dr. Tufts assessed her and told her to stop the Zoloft and started her on Ativan. I understand and Benadryl, and that medication was helpful for a while, but Ms. Clancy was concerned about about benzodiazepines being addictive, and and concerned about getting hooked on on these types of medications, and that is a concern over the long term." "And so, part of the process was to see if she could be treated effectively by decreasing the benzodiazepines, or maybe giving her a longer-acting benzodiazepine, the the medication Buspar Buspiron was prescribed by by Dr. Tufts." 36:40 re-cross