Why a Defense Witness Visited Lindsay Clancy Forty-Five Times

The defense in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial called its first four witnesses on Tuesday in Plymouth Superior Court. After the prosecution rested with seventy-two witnesses across fourteen days, the defense began building its insanity case in a single afternoon.

Lindsay Clancy is charged with three counts of murder for the deaths of her three children on January 24, 2023. She has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

Susan Clancy, Lindsay's mother-in-law and a labor-and-delivery nurse practitioner for thirty-eight years, told the jury Lindsay was a wonderful mother who was begging for help. On cross-examination, the prosecutor revealed that Lindsay told her therapists she was not close with her in-laws and did not generally allow them to watch the children.

Forensic psychiatrist Donald Condie testified that Lindsay went through more than thirteen medication changes in four months after her youngest son was born. He called her medical records somewhat sparse and said one doctor who cleared her for outpatient treatment twenty-three days before the deaths had never treated a single patient with postpartum psychosis.

Psychologist Paul Zeizel has visited Lindsay forty-five times at the hospital where she remains paralyzed from a fall through a second-story window. He testified that Lindsay told her husband Patrick she heard a male voice telling her she had no choice. If the jury believes the voice was real, the insanity defense stands. The prosecution asked whether Zeizel suggested she fabricate the claim.

The prosecutor held up an exercise band in front of the jury to demonstrate the force required in the deaths of the three children.

Court resumes Wednesday with the cross-examination of Paul Zeizel. Over two hundred witnesses are expected before the trial concludes.

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