Lindsay Clancy Trial: Her Psychiatrist Testifies — The Forms Said No Risk At All

Dr. Jennifer Tufts, the psychiatrist who treated Lindsay Clancy in the months before the killings, took the stand today in the Duxbury, Massachusetts murder trial — and her testimony reads like a paper trail that missed everything. Clancy is accused of strangling her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan, with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and her attorney Kevin Reddington is mounting an insanity defense built on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Tufts testified that Clancy filled out suicide risk and mental health screening forms, and on paper, she checked out — not suicidal, not homicidal, not manic. No signs of psychosis. No auditory hallucinations. What the forms didn't capture: Clancy told Tufts she was worried about her own drinking, up to five days a week, on top of a long list of other mental health concerns — and impulsive behavior was never flagged. Tufts prescribed Zoloft, a first-line option considered safe for breastfeeding, and referred Clancy to therapy. Clancy was hesitant about medication. When the dose went from 25 to 50 milligrams, she had side effects — including intrusive thoughts that she might die, though Tufts said there was no active suicidal ideation attached to it. Tufts testified Clancy's depression worsened as January 23 approached. She still didn't consider her a threat.

Prosecutors argue Clancy understood what she was doing regardless of her mental state. After the killings, she allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.

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