Handcuffed to a Hospital Bed: What Lindsay Clancy Told Her Psychologist First

Two state troopers outside the door. A court order just to get in the room. That's the scene Dr. Paul Zeizel, Lindsay Clancy's clinical psychologist, described today at the Duxbury mother's murder trial, testifying about the first time he was allowed to see her in the surgical ICU after the killings. Clancy 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 arguing an insanity defense centered on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Zeizel, who's met with Clancy more than 40 times, said that once he finally got access on February 4, she was handcuffed to the bed, disoriented about time and place but clear on who she was. She remembered the killings only faintly. He let her use his own phone to reach her husband Patrick — the first call went unanswered, the second got through — and on it she told Patrick she loved him, then described hearing a male voice commanding her to kill their children and herself. Zeizel testified he saw no sign she was lying, and noted that hearing voices shows up in roughly 80% of people experiencing psychosis. He also clarified the limits of his own role: psychologists handle testing, therapy, and treatment, but not medication.

Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down. Patrick Clancy has since relocated to Manhattan. Zeizel returns to the stand Wednesday morning in Plymouth Superior Court.

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