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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Psychologist Paul Zeizel returned to the witness stand today in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial to finish testifying about his analysis of Clancy after she killed her children in 2023. Zeizel is friends with Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington, and he visited Clancy in the hospital at Reddington's request. Clancy's parents hired Reddington to defend her in the days after she strangled the children on Jan. 24, 2023. You can watch the first day of Zeizel's direct-exam here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSchA9wRW8Q 00:40 "Do you know what she complained on November 29 that her symptoms were?" "She was having issues with unstable mood, depression and psychotic symptoms of disassociation." "Did she also, on that date, November 29 of 22 complained that she had what is referred to as a flattened effect?" "Yes, and that was also paired with derealization." "And what does that mean?" "That an individual experiencing derealization doesn't feel things are real when they look around..." 01:42 Patrick Clancy "was working for Microsoft, but in a home office that was in the basement of the house." 02:25 "What were her complaints that brought her to South Shore Perinatal Clinic on December 2?" "She felt that her brain was damaged. She felt that she should kill herself, and She's never going to get any better." 02:45 "Did she also express fear that people could hear her thoughts and that anything adverse would happen in her life regarding being a mother and having children?" "Yes, that's ... called thought broadcasting." 03:44 "She called the suicide hotline." "And do you know when that was, sir?" "That was December 4, 2022." "Did she receive any help from the suicide hotline?" "She did not." 05:16 "She was worried that her children would be removed from her and that she would never see them again." "Now, at this point, what medication was she on?" "She started to take at that point Seroquel, Remeron and Klonopin." 05:45 "Did she make any complaints at that point about the effect, if any, of medications?" "Yes." "What did she say?" "She said she felt like a zombie." 06:50 Dec. 15 "She went to the clinic in Rhode Island, Parents and Women's Clinic, partial day hospitalization program." "And she didn't get any help there either, right?" "That's correct." 07:36 "On December 15th, did Pat Clancy, her husband, get involved with her medical treatment?" "Yes." "And do the medical records indicate that he did something with her?" "Yes, he he brought her to the partial hospitalization program in Rhode Island." 08:40 McLeaen discharge "it's not against medical advice. She was following hospital guidelines. She was discharged accordingly." "And she wanted to go to her daughter's - some function?" "She wanted to go to her daughter Cora's birthday party, which was held on the 7th of January." 08:56 "Now, at this point, what was her status? She had been, was she had was she weaned off of medication or on her way to being weaned off of medication when she got out of McLean?" "I believe so. Yes, she was being tapered down on her medication." "And what was the medication that she was tapered down on?" "I believe it was Seroquel and Klonopin." 10:08 "She wasn't just having everyday thoughts that we all have, reminding ourselves to do something, which we make note of and then we move on. Intrusive thoughts are unrelenting; they don't stop. They're what we call egos dystonic. You don't want them; they keep interfering with your ability to get through the day." 10:28 "Did she have, at this point, intrusive thoughts continuing regarding voices that in her head that she heard constantly?" "Yes." "What were these voices saying to her?" "They were getting worse, and they were telling her to kill herself." 10:45 "And as January continued, she was, to your knowledge, using her computer to look up drugs and interactions and side effects and things of that nature?" "Yes." "If a person is in a psychosis, or as I think you said, premorbidly psychosis, are they able to do things like look up things on a computer?" 'Yes." 13:16 "And is it your understanding, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, that a person who's in a psychotic state is able to drive a car for a short distance, go to an appointment, and interact and talk to people?" "Yes, they can do everyday tasks of living." 14:19 "Did the voices or the intrusive thoughts ... to your understanding abate a stop at that point on January 24?" "No." "Did they continue?" "Yes." 16:47 "And do you have an opinion to a reasonable degree of medical certainty based upon the scale that you use to assess whether or not Lindsay Clancy had antipersonality disorder?" "Yes." "What was the result?" "The result is that she does not have any type of antisocial personality disorder, also known as sociopathy." 18:02 "And would you agree, sir, that the symptoms of postpartum postpartum psychosis would be depression? Is that one?" "Yes."