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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Prosecutors rested their case against Lindsay Clancy today after Kevin Reddington finished his cross-exam of Gregory Saathoff, a senior psychiatrist in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Behavioral Analysis Unit. This is the final 37 minutes of cross. You can watch the first hour of Reddington's cross here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gotIqqdBXV8 You can watch the end of direct-exam today here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tw1ihA8fqk 01:15 "Neurotransmitters function in the brain and have responsibility for not only aspects of mood but also psychosis. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is significant in terms of psychosis when it's too high." "...From the standpoint of psychiatric illness and brain dysfunction, medication can be very helpful in regulating the neurotransmitters and difficulties." 05:25 "Did you hear her response to Patrick's comment? What did you do?" "No." "Did you hear her respond to anything other than what would be described as guttural grunts?" "Not on that call." 08:48 "And you told the jurors that one of the things that was of interest to you was the fact that there was a glass or a wine mug or something that had crushed narcotics, or I think he used the word antipsychotic drugs, crushed up inside that cup. Do you remember that?" "Yes." 09:14 "How do you know they were antipsychotic drugs?" "I don't recall saying that they were antipsychotic drugs. Oh, did you say they were drugs?" "I thought I said medications. Medications." 13:16 "Is it your understanding, sir, that a person can be in a state of psychosis and and and and I guess misremember something?" "Yes." "Or have a false memory?" "It's possible." "Did Lindsay tell you that she slashed the screen with the big turkey knife?" "I'm sorry. Can you repeat that?" "Yeah. Did she tell you that she slashed the screen with the knife before she went out the window?" "Yes, that's what she told me." "But the screen wasn't slashed, was it? Do you think she was malingering and lying to you at that point, sir, when she told you that?" "No." 14:02 " I think, you made reference to the fact that Lindsay betrayed her family by misleading her family. Remember saying that to this jury yesterday, sir?" "Portrayed." "Betrayed is what you said." "No, I said portrayed." "So Lindsay portrayed and misled her family is what you said to the jury?" "Yes." "How did she mislead her family?" "Well, in text messages, for example, in the days prior to the to the event, her parents had visited over that weekend, and the community." "Occasions that she was providing did not give a sense of her state of mind regarding suicidality." "You kidding me? They stayed up in her house to help them —" objection sustained. "They stayed at the house, didn't they?" "Yes." 16:27 "Following their departure, there were the photographs that Lindsay Clancy sent to her mother. She didn't send her mother photographs showing that she was smiling or happy with her family, did she?" "No." 19:20 "I did not call the mother." "Who told you that you couldn't talk to the mother?" "Ms. Sprague?" "Attorney Sprague?" "Right. Attorney Sprague." "Now, when Attorney Sprague called you and said you cannot talk to the mother. Did it ever occur to you to reach out to me? You're being objective and all." "No." "Did you know, sir, that Lindsay had signed repeatedly every and any HIPAA form that was needed by the DA or other cops to get access to every single medical record that she had? Probably going back to when she was in grammar school? Did you know that?" "I know she's been open to it, and and she told me that I would." 21:00 "And you told this jury that you wanted to establish a rapport with Ms. Clancy." "Yes." "Do you think for one minute, when you're trying to put her in jail for her life, that she wants to talk to you and have a rapport?" Objection sustained." "Did you establish a rapport?" "I believe so." "She was cooperative?" "Yes." "She was polite?" "Yes." "She was pleasant? " Yes." "And I asked her at the end if there was any question that I had asked that made her feel uncomfortable and she responded in a in a positive way." 21:37 "One of the things that you told the jury is that you felt that she was malingering, or basically lying. I guess you were telling the jury, in your opinion, that she was making stuff up to make herself look like she's crazy when she killed the children. Is that what you told the jury?" "I didn't use those words." 25:44 "When the tests were administered and the results were provided, would you agree with me, yes or no, that specifically the test indicated that she was not malingering?" "Yes." 30:20 "The voice that Ms. Clancy told me about during the time of this event, she said was external." "Okay, and is that consistent with your understanding, sir, of the research on auditory hallucinations?" "Well, some auditory hallucinations can can be internal."