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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Allison Ozga is Lindsay Clancy's siser. She testified in Clancy's murder trial today for the Jan. 24, 2023, strangulation deaths of her three children. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington questioned her about her relationship with her sister and her observations of her while she was experiencing postpartum depression. "Are you close to Lindsay? Do you live near each other? Do you socialize? What type of relationship have you had with her?" "We're very close. We have not lived in the same state for about 10 years now, but we do communicate, and I do think we're very close. 01:18 "I will say, on Thanksgiving in particular, is when the first time I saw her in person after quite some time, I had known she had not been doing well via text message communication that we had. I think on Thanksgiving she, you know, her her mood did not look good. Her energy, you know, she didn't seem very energized. It definitely seemed off from how I've seen her in the past." 02:08 "The beginning of December, it seemed like she very much decompensated. I do remember her saying at one point, the beginning of December, something along the lines of, "I'm in a really tough spot. And knowing what she had shared with me previously about how her mental health had been struggling, I had this gut feeling that something was off and that she was really struggling. And I asked her if she was safe." 02:41 " Do you recall around Christmas itself, and perhaps a little bit thereafter, that you spoke with her and that she indicated, basically, I'm not doing okay?" "Yes." 03:04 "Based on communication with Lindsay, and I started communicating with Pat directly at that time. She was reporting her mood was worsening, as she described as depression. Her she was having more suicidal thoughts. ... Insomnia continued to be an issue. She was really not feeling like herself." 03:46 "first thing she said about the doctors was back in October when she said that she saw a doctor for Zoloft and had a very awful reaction to that Zoloft." 04:37 "At the end of December, so I think it was more along the same, of you know that she is really not feeling well. Her mood is down. She's feeling numb. She's feeling hopeless. I believe at the very end of the month, she told me she had had suicidal ideation every day for a month." 06:14 "So, was your sister, in your opinion, grant that she's your sister and you're biased, obviously, but was she a complainer?" "No." "And and obviously she didn't share with you in detail her doctors and medicines and things of that nature. Is that fair?" "No." "But you were aware of the struggles and the and the hurt that she was going through?" "Yes." 06:55 Cora's birthday party "How did she appear at that?" "I think she looked like she was going through the motions of putting together a birthday party for her daughter, but she looked tired. She looked like she was still struggling." "So there was a difference in your observation of of what you had known your your sister to have as a personality." "Yes." 07:22 " Did somebody call you and tell you that the children had been killed?" "Yes." "One of them still survived and ultimately passed?" "Yes." "And do you recall who told you that?" "Yes." "Who was that?" "My mother." 07:42 "I jumped in a car, packed a bag, and I sped up to South Shore Hospital, which is where I was told she was." "Did you see her in South Shore Hospital?" "No." 08:25 "Can you tell the jury from the time of this incident in January 24 of 2023 up until now, 2026? Where have your mother and father been living?" "My parents have been spending the majority of their time up here in Massachusetts." "Why?" "So that they could visit Lindsay as much as possible." "Almost on a daily basis?" "Yes." 09:01 prosecutor cross-exam "Now, when Lindsay was at McLean Hospital and she was discharged, did she tell you that she asked to be discharged early to go to Cora's birthday party?" "I can't recall." "And do you recall speaking to the police on January 25, just a day after this all happened back in 2023?" "Yes." "And do you recall telling them that you saw Lindsay two weeks prior to the 24th, roughly around the birthday party time, and that she seemed okay?" "Yes." 10:55 "Just so we make sure we have the date correct, after she was discharged from McLean in January of 2023 up until January 24, 2023, all of your communications were via text. Yes. Did you visit her at her home that month?" "No." 11:44 "You are a licensed social worker, correct?" "Correct." "And you're a mandated reporter, correct?" "Yes." "And at any point in time between January 1st, 2023, and January 24th, 2023, did you have enough concern about the safety of the kids or the safety of your sister to file a report as a mandated reporter?" "No."