PLYMOUTH, Mass. – The judge overseeing Lindsay Clancy’s closely watched murder trial has instructed jurors to keep deliberating after the panel sent a second note saying it could not reach a verdict.
The jury, made up of nine women and three men, told the court again Wednesday that it remained deadlocked over whether Clancy should be convicted of first-degree murder in the strangling deaths of her three young children.
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Plymouth Judge William Sullivan responded by reading jurors the “Tuey-Rodriguez” instruction, a legal directive often referred to by Massachusetts lawyers as the “Dynamite Charge,” urging them to make another good-faith effort to reach a unanimous decision.
The panel first alerted the judge Tuesday that it had been unable to agree on a verdict.
At the center of the case is whether Clancy, a 36-year-old mother from Duxbury, should be held criminally responsible for the Jan. 24, 2023, deaths of her children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. Authorities say she killed them before attempting to take her own life.
Clancy’s defense is asking jurors to find her not guilty by reason of insanity, arguing she was experiencing severe postpartum psychosis and hallucinated a voice commanding her to commit the killings.
Prosecutors have rejected that explanation, contending Clancy was not psychotic at the time and instead deliberately planned and carried out the crimes.
Both sides rested their cases after a total of 21 days of testimony, which began with Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, taking the stand as the first witness last month.
Patrick Clancy — who has since moved to New York City and remarried infertility specialist Rachel Danis — told jurors that Lindsay Clancy repeatedly sought help for her worsening mental state in the months leading to the killings.
She began seeing a psychiatrist, called a suicide hotline twice, checked herself into a mental institution for five days and sought help from two perinatal clinics – but still, she “kept getting worse and worse,” Patrick Clancy testified, and said Lindsay Clancy had even opened up to him about having thoughts of harming the kids.
Lindsay Clancy’s “big spiral” was further fueled, according to Patrick Clancy and Reddington, by at least 13 psychiatric medications prescribed to her by five separate providers from November 2022 up until a day before the murders, including drugs for anxiety, depression, sleep disorders and anti-psychotic meds.
Patrick Clancy hauntingly recalled returning to the family’s home to find Lindsay Clancy in the backyard with slits on her wrists and throat after plunging from a second-story window — before racing inside and discovering his three children dead in the basement.
“She killed the kids,” the father could be heard screaming during the 911 call played for jurors.
Lindsay Clancy, who attended the trial in a wheelchair after becoming paralyzed from the waist down, repeatedly broke down in tears during the harrowing testimony.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or text Crisis Text Line at 741741.
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