Crime
Clancy is going through three counts every of homicide and strangulation within the January deaths of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy.
The Duxbury mom accused of killing her three youngsters in January has been indicted on homicide costs, the Plymouth County District Legal professional’s Workplace introduced Friday.
Lindsay Clancy, 32, is going through three counts every of homicide and strangulation within the deaths of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy. She was beforehand charged in Plymouth District Courtroom; Friday’s grand jury indictments shift the case to Plymouth Superior Courtroom, which usually handles extra severe crimes.
Throughout her preliminary arraignment in district court docket earlier this yr, prosecutors described the violent sequence of occasions that allegedly unfolded within the household’s Duxbury dwelling on Jan. 24. They accused Clancy of strangling the kids with train bands whereas her husband was out selecting up dinner, then leaping from a second-story window in an try and take her personal life.
Based on court docket paperwork, Clancy’s husband, Patrick, arrived dwelling and located her injured on the bottom outdoors. He referred to as 911 and could possibly be heard asking his spouse, “The place are the children?” He later informed police that she replied, “Within the basement.”
“The 911 name saved going,” Assistant District Legal professional Jennifer Sprague informed the court docket in February, including that Patrick Clancy could possibly be heard heading to the basement and calling out for his youngsters.
“He can then be heard screaming in agony and shock as he discovered his youngsters,” she mentioned. “His screams appear to get louder and extra agonized because the time passes.”
Cora and Dawson have been pronounced lifeless later that evening, whereas Callan succumbed to his accidents three days later at Boston Kids’s Hospital.
The state Workplace of the Chief Medical Examiner decided that Cora and Dawson died of asphyxia, and that Callan died from problems of asphyxia, the DA’s workplace mentioned Friday.
Throughout February’s arraignment, Sprague and protection lawyer Kevin J. Reddington provided vastly totally different accounts of Clancy’s psychological well being main as much as the alleged murders.
Reddington described Clancy as a loyal mom whose psychological well being had been worsening within the months following the beginning of her youngest baby. He has additionally mentioned that Clancy had been prescribed greater than a dozen psychiatric medicines between October 2022 and January 2023.
Greater than per week after the alleged murders, Clancy reportedly informed her husband she had a “second of psychosis” after he left the home and heard a person’s voice telling her to kill the children and herself. Prosecutors mentioned Patrick Clancy later informed police that his spouse had by no means heard voices or used the phrase “psychosis” with him earlier than.
Sprague argued that Lindsay Clancy fastidiously deliberate a deadly assault on her youngsters, alleging that she “gave herself the time and privateness wanted to commit the murders, after which she strangled every baby within the place the place they need to have felt the most secure: At dwelling with their mother.”
Clancy was hospitalized for her accidents and later dedicated to Tewksbury Hospital for psychological well being care. The DA’s workplace confirmed Friday that she is being held with out bail and handled in a medical facility.
She is scheduled to be arraigned on the brand new costs in Plymouth Superior Courtroom at a later date. Boston.com has reached out to Reddington for touch upon the brand new costs.
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