Lindsay Clancy had a cocktail of six highly effective psychiatric medication in her system after strangling her three youngsters — however nothing she took would have been a deadly dose, in keeping with professional testimony.
Clancy, a 35-year-old former labor and supply nurse, had prescribed drugs in her blood together with anti-anxiety medicines Ativan and Valium, antipsychotic meds Seroquel and Lamictol and antidepressants Remeron and Trazodone, toxicologist Dr. Justin Brower testified Wednesday.
The dosages present in Clancy’s blood of the Lamictol, Remeron and Trazodone had been all inside “therapeutic” ranges, that means she had a recurrently prescribed quantity of them in her system, Brower, who works at NMS Labs, defined to the jury in Plymouth, Mass.
The Seroquel in her blood was double the common dosage however “it’s not in a focus that I might take into account to be poisonous or deadly,” the physician mentioned.
Brower’s firm was solely tasked with analyzing 4 of the medication in Clancy’s system. However when he was proven one other lab’s toxicology report of the Valium and Ativan present in her blood, he mentioned they had been barely beneath the prescribed vary.
All six of the medication had been prescribed to Clancy by 4 medical doctors, nurse practitioners and one hospital throughout her four-month wrestle with extreme postpartum earlier than she strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan with train bands at her Duxbury dwelling on Jan. 24, 2023, in keeping with testimony and proof.
She then tried to kill herself by throwing herself out of the second-story window of her dwelling. She is now a paraplegic.
Along with the six medication in her blood, Clancy was additionally prescribed seven different psychiatric medicines throughout these 4 months as she labored with well being care suppliers to seek out the proper cocktail and dosage to assist her battle crushing insomnia and nervousness, and insupportable unintended effects, in keeping with testimony and proof.
In all, Clancy was given over 30 prescriptions for 13 medication in various dosages from Sept. 15, 2022 by way of January 2023, the jury has discovered.
Prosecutors have claimed that Clancy fastidiously deliberate the slayings as a result of she was bored with caring for her youngsters.
However Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, will ask the jury to seek out her not responsible by purpose of madness, as a result of she was within the throes of extreme postpartum psychosis and was listening to voices — partially due to all of the medicines she was on.
Clancy had landed within the hospital twice within the months earlier than the murders for suicidal ideas and he or she instructed her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, and her mother about having ideas of harming the youngsters.
And he or she journaled about her excruciating internal torment and darkish ideas, saying she needed to die whereas she sleep-trained Callan, and needed a psychological break from caring for everybody.
Clancy and her husband Patrick — who has since remarried — have each filed separate lawsuits in opposition to the medical doctors who handled her claiming they misdiagnosed and overmedicated her.
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