Lindsay Clancy Trial: What the Medical Examiner Said About How Cora and Dawson Died

The Lindsay Clancy murder trial delivered its most clinical — and most brutal — testimony yet today. 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 attorney Kevin Reddington is building an insanity defense around claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Three witnesses took the stand. Nichole Bradley, Assistant Deputy Superintendent with the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department, described the security watch maintained on Clancy's hospital room. Then the medical testimony began. Renee Stonebridge of the Chief Medical Examiner's Office, trained in neuropathology, testified that all three children died from asphyxia, with significant brain swelling from lost oxygen and blood supply. Dr. Barbara Olson, who conducted the autopsies on Cora and Dawson, testified that bruises found on Cora were recent, though she couldn't specify exactly when they were inflicted, and that both children would have experienced pain as they lost consciousness during strangulation. Cause of death for both: mechanical asphyxiation.

The testimony proved too much for the courtroom more than once — recesses were called as Clancy had visible emotional reactions to what was being described.

Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window after the killings and remains 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 and is expected to run several more weeks.

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