Lindsay Clancy Trial: Doctor Testifies No Signs of Psychosis, Then Notes Get Contested

A psychiatrist with four years of residency and roughly 50 postpartum depression patients under her belt told jurors today she's seen real psychosis up close — and she didn't see it in Lindsay Clancy. Dr. Jennifer Tufts returned to the stand for redirect in the Duxbury mother's murder trial, where Clancy, 34, 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 mounting an insanity defense built on claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Tufts's testimony cuts directly against that theory — she's not speculating, she's speaking from experience with patients who were genuinely in the grip of psychosis, and by her read, Clancy wasn't one of them.

On recross, Reddington didn't let it sit. He and Tufts sparred over her own clinical notes, disagreeing on what was written and, more importantly, what it meant. It's the kind of exchange that reminds you medical records aren't verdicts — they're interpretations, and this trial is going to be full of dueling ones.

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

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