Conflict · Clancy triple killing trialDefense Rests in Clancy Triple Killing Trial With Dream-State ClaimAired August 22, 2026 at 7:27 AM UTCWritten September 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:00The defense rested on August 21st after0:02calling 10 witnesses,0:03>> [music]0:04>> ending with forensic psychiatrist Philip0:05Resnick testifying that Lindsay Clancy0:08was in a postpartum psychosis-induced0:10dream state described as a puppet state0:12>> [music]0:12>> unable to distinguish right from wrong0:14when she killed her three children with0:16closing arguments possible Monday or0:17Tuesday [music] and a verdict possible0:19sometime next week. The case now turns0:21on a single question0:22>> [music]0:23>> because the act itself is not disputed.0:25The Massachusetts triple homicide on0:27Summer Street in Duxbury [music]0:28has moved to its final stage after0:30coverage across August 17th to 21st.0:33Lindsay Clancy, also rendered Lindsay in0:35transcripts, [music]0:36a former labor and delivery nurse at0:38Massachusetts General Hospital, age0:40about 35 [music] to 36 at trial, has0:43admitted strangling her three children0:44with exercise bands in the basement. The0:47victims appear in the record with0:48variant [music] spellings as Cora and0:49Cora, Callan and Ken. Research verifies0:52Cora and Callan with Cora and Ken as0:54transcription errors. Callan died days0:57later after being placed on life0:59support. After [music] the killings,1:00Clancy cut herself and jumped from a1:02second-story bedroom window and is now1:04paralyzed [music] from the waist down,1:06described in some reports as below the1:08sternum, held at Tewksbury State1:09Hospital under Department of Mental1:11Health custody. Her husband, Patrick1:13Clancy, described [music] as ex-husband1:14who has remarried in some profiles, is1:16not charged. The prosecution rested1:19after more than 70 witnesses [music]1:21with some reports above 80 arguing the1:23killings were planned and that Clancy1:24sent her husband out on errands for1:26takeout and CVS to empty the house. Its1:29central challenge is that Clancy never1:31reported hearing voices in1:32contemporaneous records against later1:34accounts of a commanding male voice.1:36Sheila Cavanaugh of Brigham and Women's1:38Hospital, [music] chaplain with more1:40than 200 conversations across Brigham,1:42Spaulding, and Tewksbury, described a1:44January 31st post-extubation [music]1:46exchange when Clancy said she was glad1:48her children were safe and was told they1:49were safe in heaven and later a1:51persistent male voice commanding [music]1:52her to kill the children and herself.1:55Resnick, who interviewed her and parents1:56about 4 months later for about 3 hours,1:59>> [music]1:59>> closed the defense case calling it a2:00dream-like puppet state. If the jury2:03finds not guilty by reason of lack of2:05criminal responsibility, commitment2:06follows under general laws chapter 1232:09section 16 to a state psychiatric2:11facility with [music] periodic2:12dangerousness reviews, not release, in2:15Plymouth Superior Court before Judge2:17William F. Sullivan. Rebuttal witnesses2:19began immediately after the August 212:21arrest with closings now framing whether2:24the dense medication history and rarity2:26of 1 to 2 per 1,000 explain the2:28contradiction the jury must resolve.2:30Like and follow for more stories that2:32matter.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗