Why Lindsay Clancy Needed Her Husband Gone for Fifty-Four Minutes

Lindsay Clancy's murder trial begins in days. Jury selection opens July 20 in Plymouth. She is charged with ending the lives of all three of her children during a fifty-four-minute window while her husband was picking up takeout she asked him to get. Prosecutors say she checked Apple Maps to time the drive.

The defense says she was drowning. Nine medications prescribed across dozens of appointments — eight of those medications added in a single three-week stretch. Virtual psychiatric visits that lasted seventeen minutes. A hospital that evaluated her, concluded she was overmedicated and misdiagnosed, and discharged her anyway. Her attorney offered to formally admit she was responsible for all three deaths if the judge would let the jury consider guilt and sanity separately. The judge declined.

The judge also blocked fifteen women who wanted to testify about their own postpartum psychosis — women who had experienced command hallucinations like the ones Lindsay described. The court ruled medical experts are sufficient. The defense lost the most emotionally powerful testimony it had.

Jennifer Coffindaffer, retired FBI Special Agent, sits down with Tony and Robin to dissect the case heading to trial. She addresses whether the Apple Maps evidence is as damning as the prosecution believes, how a jury handles hearing a confession and an insanity defense in the same breath, and what happens when Patrick Clancy — the father who forgave — takes the stand and tells the jury his wife got sick.

Lindsay Clancy is paralyzed. She's in a wheelchair. The doctors who prescribed her nine medications are named in two civil lawsuits — but not a single one of them is sitting at a defendant's table.

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