Lindsay Clancy is accused of killing her three young kids before attempting suicide on Jan. 24, 2023. (image via Facebook)
A Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three young children to death in the basement of her home and trying to take her own life by jumping out of a window on Jan. 24 was indicted by a grand jury Friday on charges of murder and strangulation, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz revealed.
Lindsay Clancy, a 32-year-old from Duxbury, was indicted on three charges each of murder and strangulation in the asphyxiation deaths of 5-year-old Cora Clancy, 3-year-old Dawson Clancy, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy. Authorities said that the day cops responded to the grisly scene it was clear the children were “unconscious and with obvious signs of severe trauma.” Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead that day at the hospital, and Callan died days later.
“As a result of information gathered during the ongoing investigation, detectives developed probable cause, obtained an arrest warrant for Lindsay Clancy and she was taken into custody,” the DA’s office said.
Clancy appeared in court for the first time via Zoom from a hospital bed back in February.
Lindsay Clancy appears on Zoome during her arraignment from a hospital bed on Feb. 7, 2023.
When she was asked if she was present for the arraignment and understood what was taking place, Clancy replied: “Yes, your honor.”
Since then, Plymouth County prosecutors and the defense have clashed on what the case is all about.
The defense maintained that Clancy was overmedicated on 13 different psychiatric drugs and that there was possibly “a component of post-partum depression” to the case.
The prosecution, on the other hand, alleged that Lindsey Clancy, in a calculated manner, asked her husband Patrick Clancy out for a time-consuming errand that she knew would give her enough time to annihilate her children in the basement of her home before jumping out of a window to take her own life.
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In support of the argument that Clancy planned the murders, prosecutors said there was evidence that she searched how long it would take for her husband to pick up from the Plymouth restaurant ThreeV.
While running an errand at CVS, Patrick Clancy called his wife to make sure he had grabbed the product she wanted him to buy. Though he didn’t think of anything of it at the time, he said it “seemed like she was in the middle of something.”
When he got home, he immediately knew that something was wrong, as the house was completely silent. Prosecutors said Patrick Clancy “saw blood on the floor” and “the window open.” When he ran downstairs, he found a seriously injured Lindsay Clancy outside and asked her: “What did you do?”
Lindsay Clancy allegedly replied that she tried to kill herself and told her husband that the children were “in the basement.”
“Each child still had the exercise band that was used to strangle them around their necks when their father found them,” Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague said. “She had to strangle each of them to unconscious and then make sure the bands were squeezing their little necks for several minutes.”
Clancy’s defense lawyer Kevin Reddington countered that his client was suicidal and that the slayings were “a product of mental illness.”
Prosecutors said Clancy would be arraigned on the indictment in Plymouth Superior Court but they did not say when.
To this day, Lindsay Clancy is receiving treatment at a medical facility as she is held without bail, prosecutors said.
Colin Kalmbacher contributed to this report.
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