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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Kevin Reddington finished his cross-exam of forensic psychologist Kirk Heliburn in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial today (Tuesday, August 25, day 20). This is the final 77 minutes of Heliburn's testimony, including re-direct. You can watch the first 67 minutes of Reddington's cross here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvt8fLaS2cA 01:06 " when you were talking with Lindsay, did you ask her what she meant by saying she can't feel love?" "Yes, she said that she felt like a shell. She felt hollow. She felt like a zombie. She felt emotionally flat as a pancake, which is also one of the phrases that was used in those records to describe her mood." 02:49 "one of her goals, and I quote, was to come off meds and be able to sleep. End quote?" "Yes." "Now, insomnia, you agree with me, is is very serious?" "I would absolutely agree with you." "Yes, and that can lead to any number of things, right?" "Yes." "It can even lead to psychosis, right?" "Yes." 06:21 "Would you be surprised, sir, that she had significant damage not only to her back, her spine, and was hemorrhaging, but also to her throat?" "No, I would not be surprised." 09:10 "After discharge, would you agree, sir, that she had what she described as a small shred of hope after discharge because she thought that she was off the Seroquel, and felt that was what was causing her a lot of her problems. Right?" "Yes, I would." 11:23 "The counseling was limited, but yes, that is correct. She was involved in some counseling." 11:42 "It was short-term and supportive, as opposed to something where, in the field, you might pick a cognitive behavioral therapist, which is empirically supported for things like anxiety and depression and patients and things like that." 16:59 "She also had psychotropic medication with adverse reaction. Your words to this jury yesterday?" "Yes." 17:40 "These medications are available because, for what they're prescribed for, they help most people. They have to go through clinical trials and all sorts of things." "But for a few people, there are side effects and what we call adverse reactions, and they don't help. In in fact, they they might make things worse, and it appeared to me from reviewing the records that for Ms. Clancy, that's she's one of those few people where the the reactions were very very different, very poor, very they were not the kind of reactions that were designed to have the medication prescribed for and improve the symptoms." 21:21 "Would you agree that at the same time she was doing the beach blanket bingo or whatever it is on television, where she's she's she's selling people things like videos and lost money doing it?" "Would I agree what?" "Would you agree that she was selling videos online and it turned out that it was a scam, and she lost her money?" "I would agree that she was involved in something like that. I didn't know that she lost her money." 26:51 "You recall this morning indicating that you recounted that Lindsay told you that she felt quote like it wasn't her end quote as though she were watching herself commit the killings, and that she was simply responding to the voice rather than consciously deciding what to do. Do you remember saying that this morning?" "Yes." "Would you agree that that description is consistent, almost black letter definition with profound disassociation?" "My testimony was ..." "no, no. Is that, sir, consistent with profound disassociation? "No, it is consistent." 43:45 " those are all of the postpartum depression symptoms that a person can have, according to Mass General Hospital's three-year review of postpartum depression and psychosis. So she hit all of these symptoms, right?" "Those are symptoms of postpartum depression. They're also symptoms of depression." Prosecutor re-direct 47:44 "those symptoms that Attorney Reddington just read you about postpartum depression are those also symptoms for general depression?" "They are symptoms for general depression..." 51:25 "Did anyone from my office, or myself, or Ms. Buckingham, ever tell you what your decision or what your evaluation should say in this case?" "No." 56:44 "She had a number of diagnoses that people assigned to her, a number of symptoms, and one of the things that she she experienced is that people were saying that she had something pretty minor, adjustment disorder with anxiety, or adjustment disorder with mild depression, or things like that, all the way up to things that were really major and really severe postpartum psychosis, that sort of thing, and there were a number of things in between." 01:08:59 "Symptoms of psychosis, including command hallucinations, don't necessarily take away your knowledge, your understanding, or your self-control..." 01:10:04 "If can someone who is experiencing psychosis with a command hallucination can that person know the difference between right and wrong?" "Yes." 01:11:16 re-cross by Reddington