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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Dan Lawler is a sergeant with the Massachusetts State Police who used to work with the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office though the State Police Detectives Unit. Lawler investigated the strangulation deaths of the Clancy children in their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023. He testified in mother Lindsay Clancy's murder trial this morning (Wednesday, August 12, day 12) in Plymouth County Superior Court. 01:58 "And in this case, did members of those two units, respond as well to the South Shore Hospital at the time that you were there." "Yes." 02:15 "Did you have the occasion to observe Lindsay Clancy at the South Shore Hospital?" "Yes." "And she was in the emergency department, correct?" "Correct." "And was she able to speak, or was she intubated?" "She was unable to speak." 03:16 "And in addition to serving the preservation order, did you collect some items that were removed from medical staff that were on Lindsay Clancy, the defendant?" "Yes." "What did you collect, or what did they provide you?" "It was her clothing and wedding ring and wedding band." 05:20 "What do you know this item to be?" "Not sure." "Is it a piece of clothing that you obtained from the hospital?" "Yes." "Does it appear to be a woman's tank top?" "Yes." 06:03 "And what are these?" "Jeans." "And these were also cut and off the defendant and received by the medical staff at Social Hospital." "Yes." "And on these jeans, you see a little bit of staining on the front?" "Yes." 07:40 "Now, in addition to going to the South Shore Hospital on January 24, 2023, did you go to any other hospitals?" "Yes." "Which hospital did you go to?" "Boston Hospital." "And why did you go there?" "I was advised to go there by my supervisor." 08:17 "Now, in the early morning hours of January 25th of 2023, were you aware that a search warrant was obtained for the home of 47 Summer Street in Duxbury?" "Yes." 08:37 "So the house would have been frozen pending the search warrant being signed. Once it's signed, we begin the execution, and crime scene would document the the residents inside and outside before we would go in." 09:40 "And what was your role that night or that morning in the execution of the warrant?" "I was the evidence officer." "And what does that mean?" "I document evidence that is located by investigators during the search warrant." 10:26 "And your role was just to document items that were going to be collected and returned to the state police detectives unit?" "To document items that would be collected and either go back to the state police detective unit or to the crime lab." 11:12 "And so you, as the evidence officer, were aware that Trooper Rabbit located some prescription pill bottles in the kitchen that that morning, correct?" "Correct." "And so, as the evidence officer, were you responsible for kind of keeping custody of those bottles?" "Correct." "At some later point, after those bottles were photographed and collected, did you inventory those bottles?" "Yes." 14:32 "Did you search in the upstairs master bedroom of the house during the search warrant?" "Yes, I assisted with the search." "Did you locate anything that you documented or collected to take back to the state police?" "Yes." "In the master bedroom?" "Yes." "What did you locate?" "I believe it was a baby monitor and a Google Nest camera." 15:52 " When you went to the Brigham and Women's Hospital, was she in her own room or was she in like a open area?" "She was in her own room."