What Lindsay Clancy's Chaplain Left Out of Her Notes

Lindsay Clancy sat through fourteen telehealth sessions with her psychiatrist in the weeks before her three children died in their Duxbury home, and that doctor told the jury she never appeared psychotic. Then came the hospital chaplain — the person who has spent more hours with Clancy than nearly anyone alive, roughly two hundred visits across three years at Tewksbury Hospital. She testified that Clancy described a male voice commanding her to kill her children and then herself, or none of them would be safe. On cross-examination, the prosecutor got her to admit something the defense didn't want said out loud: in two hundred visits, she never wrote that voice down.
That gap now sits at the center of the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Once an insanity defense is raised under Massachusetts law, the burden shifts — prosecutors must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy was criminally responsible when she used exercise bands on her three children. To carry that burden, the state needs jurors to conclude the chaplain either missed the most important thing Clancy ever told her, or that Clancy invented it after she survived her own suicide attempt. Phone forensics don't make the answer easier — Clancy had searched "symptoms of postpartum psychosis," timed her husband's errand, and ordered the takeout that cleared him out of the house.
The defense calls it a woman failed by a medical system that kept adjusting her prescriptions without hearing her. The prosecution calls it premeditation with a convenient excuse attached. Tony Brueski lays out both sides of a case that keeps getting harder to call, with closing arguments expected the week of August 24.
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