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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Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham cross-examined defense witness psychologist Paul Zeizel for 75 minutes today Zeizel is friends with Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington and has worked with him on other cases. At Reddington's request, he met with Lindsay Clancy in the hospital several days after she killed her children on Jan. 24, 2023. 08:52 "You indicated that you've been with the case since February 4 of the year 2023, correct?" "Yes, 41 months." ... "So in July of 2025, it was your opinion that she was stable and she would be, hopefully, as you say, transferred to a different facility. Correct?" "Yes." "And you're aware that currently she's still at Tewksbury Hospital?" "Yes." "And currently, she's still taking psychotropic medications?" "That's true." 13:10 "I was examining her as a colleague and friend of Attorney Reddington to see how she was faring. There was no predetermined notion whether I would be interested or willing or even offered the opportunity to take the case." 19:03 "And at that time, when you were now second time meeting with her and having this phone call, were you aware that she had already changed her healthcare proxy from Patrick to her parents?" "I did not know that." "Did you talk to Patrick in between the 4th and the 6th to find out if he had tried to come in to visit her?" "I didn't speak to him at all, so I knew nothing about what his plans or intentions were." 22:26 "who did she tell that she heard voices telling them to kill, telling her to kill herself?" "I believe she told family members." "I believe she may have said that to her mother." 28:51 "Now, in your report, you indicate that part of her the timeline of her medication and her decline is the September time period where she was prescribed the Zoloft, right?" "Yes." 34:41 "So so when you quote in your report, when questioned about the nature and content of these horrible thoughts, Ms. Clancy stated, "Quote, like a really bad and intrusive thought that I didn't feel like it was mine, telling me I should kill myself. Your brain is damaged. You're never going to get better. End quote. Where does the quote come?" "Where does the quote come from?" "She had said that to me." /// "Okay, and this is well after the incident occurred, correct?" "Yes." 39:00 "And you'd agree that there's a difference between the idea that somebody believes their thoughts would be or could be heard by others, and the belief that they are being heard by others, right?" "Yes, it's a matter of semantics, and it's a level of degreeism. Believing and knowing, two totally separate things ..." 45:03 "my testimony is based on my evaluation of her. This is what Ms. Clancy shared with me. Who am I to doubt what she believes or doesn't believe about the offer for treatment or help? It's her opinion." 50:14 "Were you aware that on May 26, 2023, that the defendant was observed by staff in a note stating that she was visible along the unit hallways, self-propelling her wheelchair with her one-to-one staff. That she had a visit with her mother, who brought dinner for her. They ate and played games during the visit?" 57:17 "And on September 30th, 2025 of the Tewksbury record on page 2056 reads: Patient was visible in the hallway using her phone. No SIB or behavioral issues observed or reported. Do you have any doubt? Do you have reason to doubt that that is an accurate read of page 2056." "I have no reason to doubt that that's not accurate." "And that would have been September 30, which would have been Dawson's sixth birthday, right?" "Yes." 57:59 "on December 24 of 2025, page 76 of the patient notes in the Chewsbury Hospital records reads: Ate breakfast, refused lunch, took snacks, utilizing phone, assisted with ADLs, spent some time in the TV room, attended PT, resting in bed after lunch. Do you have any reason to doubt that is contained within the Twerksbury records on page 76?" "No." "And December 24 would have been Cora's 8th birthday, correct?" "Yes." 01:01:40 "As far as confirmation bias for psychiatry or providers, it's fair to say that clinicians are warned that they may lean towards or support their own theories and overlook contradictory evidence. That you have to be aware of that, correct?" "Yes." 01:07:38 clip from press conference 01:16:06 Kevin Reddingon re-direct 01:25:40 "Is it your understanding, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, that the fact that a woman who is paralyzed is propelling herself down the hall from one room to another is indicative of anything?" "Not at all." 01:26:59 " Lindsay Clancy has bad days and worse days. "And when you speak with her and meet with her doctor, has she ever mentioned her children? Because apparently, according to the questioning that you underwent, she never talks about her kids." "She does speak about her children." "What does she say?" "She really loves them, and misses them, and thinks of them every single day, almost every moment of the day."