Lindsay Clancy's Own Witness Said She Killed Out Of WHAT?

Prosecutors called Kirk Heilbrun to help prove Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children. Instead, the forensic psychologist told jurors this was a serious suicide attempt accompanied by killing her children out of love, because Clancy couldn't bear to leave them behind — testimony that sounds a lot more like a defense argument than a prosecution one. He wasn't the only one. Forensic psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff, another prosecution witness, agreed under defense questioning that the state's own opening statement had minimized what Clancy was actually experiencing. He also flagged what he called significant inconsistencies in her account of the voice she says ordered her to kill Cora, Dawson, and Callan — a voice that appeared once, lasted roughly eighteen minutes, and stopped the moment the children were dead. The defense used the opening the state's witnesses gave them. Attorney Kevin Reddington showed jurors a chart of Clancy's prescriptions — lorazepam, sertraline, hydroxyzine, buspirone, trazodone — stacked up by providers who never coordinated her care, alongside a December 2022 journal entry he said had deteriorated into chicken scratches a month before the killings. His final witness, forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick, who evaluated Andrea Yates decades earlier, told the jury Clancy was clearly psychotic. ADA Jennifer Sprague's closing argued something entirely different: that Clancy made a rational choice, that her children were the only thing keeping her alive, and that she left them in the basement and went upstairs to finish what she'd started for herself. The jury deliberated three and a half hours on their first day with no verdict. Bob Motta and retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer break it down with Tony Brueski — and they don't agree on who won the day.

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