Lindsay Clancy advised her husband in a bone-chilling cellphone name after strangling their youngsters that she heard a male voice telling her to “kill her kids and kill herself,” a shrink testified Tuesday.
Clancy, 36, had requested hospital psychologist Paul Zeizel if she may borrow his cellphone Feb. 6, 2023 — 13 days after killing her and her then-husband’s three younger kids, the skilled advised jurors in Plymouth, Mass., court docket.
Clancy then phoned partner Patrick Clancy from her hospital room at Brigham and Ladies’s, the place she was being held and recovering from a suicide try after strangling the children with train cords.
“She advised Patrick that she liked him very a lot,” Zeizel testified. “She stated she heard a male voice ordering her, telling her that she didn’t have any alternative, that she needed to kill her kids and kill herself.”
Zeizel stated he first visited Clancy within the hospital two days earlier — however that Patrick didn’t reply when she tried him that day.
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The shrink was referred to as to testify by Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, who requested Zeizel if he had instructed that Clancy mislead her husband about listening to voices.
“Completely not,” Zeizel shot again.
Reddington desires the jury to seek out Clancy not responsible by purpose of madness based mostly on the very fact she was allegedly troubled with extreme postpartum psychosis worsened by a slew of highly effective psychiatric medicines her docs prescribed her.
However prosecutors declare Clancy rigorously deliberate the slayings, proving she couldn’t have been experiencing psychosis on the time.
Jurors have already heard testimony from her psychiatrists and different medical suppliers who stated they didn’t consider she was in a psychotic state.
She additionally by no means advised any of them about listening to voices, prosecutors have repeatedly emphasised.
However Reddington has instructed that Clancy was seemingly hiding the severity of her psychological break earlier than the slayings out of concern she would lose custody of her youngsters.
Dr. Donald Condie, a psychiatrist referred to as by the protection earlier Tuesday, stated Clancy could have been “anxious that her kids could be taken away from her if she reported extreme signs.”
Condie stated he had by no means spoken with Clancy and solely reviewed her medical data whereas admitted he was merely speculating about her mind-set on the time.
The Duxbury killer mom cried in the course of the testimony of one other protection witness Tuesday, Dr. Elizabeth Laposata, as she was questioned in regards to the deadly accidents of Clancy’s kids.
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Laposata advised the jury that since Clancy used elastic train bands to strangle her youngsters, they in all probability misplaced consciousness in 10 seconds and died minutes later.
The physician additionally testified that Clancy seemingly hit the bottom head first when she later threw herself out of the window of her bed room on the second ground of her residence — the autumn inflicting her to interrupt her backbone in a number of locations. Clancy is now a paraplegic and wheelchair-bound.
One other surprising second got here Tuesday when Condie advised the jury Clancy ran a race simply hours after delivering her third youngster, Callan, in Might 2022.
Reddington made inconsistent statements at trial about when Clancy ran the 5K. He agreed with a witness Tuesday that Clancy did it the day of her supply.
The primary witness Tuesday was Clancy’s former mother-in-law, Sue Clancy, who prosecutor Hanan Buckingham bizarrely requested if she was Catholic and knew homicide was a “mortal sin.”
Decide William Sullivan instantly minimize off the reply to the query and had the attorneys come to facet bar, and Buckingham didn’t ask additional questions alongside these strains afterward.
Sue — Patrick’s mother — testified that Clancy was “very nurturing, very loving. She was an exquisite mother.”
However the ex-mother-in-law stated she knew that Clancy had been battling with psychological well being within the months earlier than the slayings and added that she had assisted Clancy in entering into perinatal clinic.
“She was begging for assist,” Sue advised jurors. “Lindsay was struggling, and we have been all very involved.”
Clancy killed Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan whereas Patrick was out operating errands. The pair divorced, and Patrick has since remarried.
The jury is due again in court docket Wednesday morning when Zeizel is predicted to proceed testifying.
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