Here’s a look at some of the key events and dates in the Lindsay Clancy case:
May 2022: Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, gives birth to her third child Callan. She lives in Duxbury with her husband Patrick and their two other young children Cora and Dawson.
September 2022: Clancy meets over telehealth with a psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Tufts, to address her anxiety, depression and insomnia. Clancy is prescribed about a dozen medications and meets with several other providers over the following four months as her mental health declines.
December 31, 2022: Clancy is admitted to McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility, after reporting thoughts of suicide and intrusive thoughts of hurting the kids. She is released after five days to attend her daughter’s birthday party.
January 23, 2023: Clancy tells Dr. Tufts she is “doing all right,” denies any suicidal or homicidal ideation and shows no signs of psychosis, according to Tufts.
January 24: Clancy sends her husband Patrick out of the house on errands. While he is gone, she fatally strangles her three children with exercise bands, cuts her own wrists and neck and jumps out of a second-floor window, according to trial testimony. Patrick comes home to the scene and calls 911.
January 26: Clancy, partially paralyzed and unable to speak, writes on a piece of paper she is “horrified” and asks for an attorney, according to a hospital psychiatrist.
Late January and early February: Clancy tells her husband and a hospital chaplain she heard a persistent male voice directing her to kill her children and herself.
February 7, 2023: From her hospital bed, Clancy is arraigned on murder charges and pleads not guilty.
October 2024: Patrick Clancy opens up to The New Yorker about the killings and expresses empathy for his wife. “I wasn’t married to a monster – I was married to someone who got sick,” he said.
January 2026: Lindsay Clancy files a civil lawsuit against her medical providers in which she says she strangled her children after hearing a voice in her head. “I lost all control. My body started acting without any control on my part,” she wrote in the suit.
July 20, 2026: Clancy’s murder trial begins with jury selection in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
July 26: Prosecutors and the defense make their opening statements, and Patrick Clancy testifies as the trial’s first witness.
August 17: The prosecution rests its case after calling over 70 witnesses, including Clancy’s family and friends, first-responders, investigators and medical providers.
August 21: Clancy’s defense rests its case after calling 10 witnesses, including psychiatric experts who said Clancy suffered from postpartum psychosis.
August 26: The prosecution rests its rebuttal case after calling three mental health experts who said Clancy was not psychotic at the time of the killings.
August 27: Prosecutors and the defense present closing arguments, and the jury begins deliberations.
September 1: On its fourth day of deliberations, the jury reports it is “unable to come to a unanimous decision.” The judge directs the jury to continue deliberating.
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