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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Paula Musgrove is Lindsay Clancy's mother. She testified as a defense witness in Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, today (Monday, August 17, day 14). Defense attorney Kevin Reddington questioned her in direct-exam. 00:36 "She was a very good kid and an excellent student. Very excellent student all through, all through school, through high school, college. Yes, excellent." "Ever been in trouble, you know, law enforcement or schools or discipline or anything?" "No." 01:48 "Tell the jury what observations you made of Lindsay as a mother through the years after Cora was born, and then Dawson, and then of course baby Callan." "Lindsay was a very loving mother. She was dedicated to her children. She was a fun mother. She was always doing things for her kids. She always wanted to be a mother, have many children, and it. I felt it was the best thing that ever happened to her, and she would do anything for her children. She was just a loving mother." 02:52 "Myself and my husband would travel from Connecticut to Duxbury at least two or three times a month, as well as them coming to Connecticut to visit us." 03:16 "Did you observe in the summer of 22 any changes at that point in her personality and the way she was acting with her friends and in society?" "in the summer, no" "And they were having a fairly good good summer?" "Yes." 03:35 "Did you notice at some point a change in Lindsay's demeanor?" "Yes." "Tell the jury when that was." "It was sometime, probably around the second week of October." "What happened that you noticed?" "I noticed that she was had become very anxious. She was. She told me she was anxious about going back to work because Callan was having trouble taking a bottle, and she didn't feel right about leaving him." 04:15 "Did you know at that point that she was going through any issues involving depression or anxiety or having any suicidal ideation or anything like that?" "At that point, no." "At what point, if any, did you become aware that your daughter was suffering from this symptomology?" "In late October." "And how did that come about?" "She sent me a text message." 06:25 Lindsay message to mother: "Will you please come up and stay with me for a bit? I'm really sick. Something is wrong. I had horrible insomnia all night, and I just don't know how I'm going to get through the day. I started taking the medicine my doctor prescribed for anxiety, and I think it's made things worse. It's just really scary, and I don't want to be alone." 07:54 "What happened that day at the end of October?" "Lindsay had been. been, I believe, she went to the emergency room that day, and she had come home. She was feeling a bit better. She told me that she couldn't sleep. She was very anxious, and she was afraid." "And how long did you stay with her?" "At that point?" "Yes." "I believe at that point I stayed for about a week." 09:16 "While you were staying with Lindsay, can you tell us your opinion as to her condition was it decompensating? Was she getting better as time went on through November and December into the holidays?" "Through November into December, it was not getting better into and and into the holidays." 11:18 "And it's fair to say that Pat's parents, mom and dad also stepped up, taking care of the kids, helping out during this period of time?" "They were there, I guess, when we weren't there. I didn't really see them." 11:53 "Lindsay had lost a lot of weight. She had become, during this whole time, paranoid about different things that really she shouldn't have, you know, really weren't logical to become paranoid about. She would mention that her this wasn't her mind. She would say to me, "I've never. This isn't me. I've never been like this before, and I would agree because she wasn't. She she was attempting to go through the motions of her day, take care of the kids as best she could. She stopped. She didn't want to drive, so at times when Pat didn't go pick the kids up at school, I would drive Lindsay to pick the kids up at school because she didn't. She was afraid to drive." "Did she express to you concern that in this time frame, that people at the school, teachers, and other people would be able to know what she was thinking and would think that she wasn't a good mother because she was sick?" "Yes, she said the school knows some something's going on because I'm not driving my car, to you know they see that I'm not driving my car to pick the kids up." 13:33 "Now, I know that this is difficult. In December of 2022, do you recall a time that you were in the kitchen with Lindsay and Patrick, and she made a statement about her state of mind to her husband Pat, and you were there?" "Yes." "I know it's difficult. Just tell us what you remember." "I remember her being very nervous. I remember her saying, 'I just have to tell you guys something,' and then she told us." "What did she tell you?" "She told us that she had thoughts of harming the children."