Lindsay Clancy Trial: Psychiatrist Tufts Says She Saw No Psychosis — Then Reddington Pushed Back

Dr. Jennifer Tufts, a psychiatrist who spent four years as a resident treating thousands of psychiatric patients — roughly 50 of them dealing with postpartum depression — took the stand again today in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, this time on redirect from prosecutors. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, 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 building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Tufts told the court she's treated patients in the middle of active psychosis before — she knows what it looks like. And by her account, she didn't see it in Clancy. That's the kind of testimony that doesn't need a dramatic soundbite to matter; it goes straight at the foundation of the defense's entire theory.

Then came recross, and things got granular fast. Reddington and Tufts went back and forth over her own clinical notes — not just what was written, but what it actually meant. Two professionals, same document, competing readings. Juries tend to remember exactly this kind of moment, because it's not about who's lying. It's about how much room there is to argue over a diagnosis after the fact.

Clancy allegedly attempted suicide after the killings, jumping from a second-story window and leaving her 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, expected to run several more weeks.

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