Lindsay Clancy

# Lindsay Clancy

Reviewed: 2026-09-02 - every claim on this page checked against the trial transcripts in this archive; unsupported and contradicted claims removed or attributed.

Source: Trial transcripts in this archive (Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy, Plymouth Superior Court, Docket 2383CR00198), with dates and biography from published reporting where the record does not carry them.

Entity Type: Person (Defendant)

Role: Defendant in Commonwealth v. Lindsay Clancy

Age: Reported as 36 during the 2026 trial (NBC News, Boston.com, September 2026)

Occupation: Labor and delivery nurse, Massachusetts General Hospital

Status: No verdict. The jury has been deliberating since the afternoon of Day 22 and reported on 1 September 2026 that it could not reach a unanimous decision; Judge Sullivan declined to declare a mistrial and sent it back.

How to read this page. Lines marked (record) are established in the trial

transcripts held in this archive and can be checked against them. Lines marked

(reported) come from published journalism and are not in the record. Lines

marked (contested) are disputed between the parties and are not settled

facts. Nothing here should be read as a finding: no verdict has been returned.

## Background

## Mental health history

### How her condition was characterised

### Medications named in the record

Sertraline (Zoloft), fluoxetine (Prozac), trazodone, amitriptyline, mirtazapine

(Remeron), quetiapine (Seroquel), diazepam (Valium), clonazepam (Klonopin),

zolpidem (Ambien), lorazepam (Ativan). The prescribing sequence, and whether the

combination and pace of changes contributed to her deterioration, is argued at

length by both sides (record; interpretation contested).

### Reported symptoms

Commonwealth argues she withheld them from her clinicians while telling

family, and the defence disputes the significance of that (contested)

## 24 January 2023

Times below are as established in testimony and surveillance evidence. Where the

record gives a range or an approximation, that is what is shown.

The children were strangled with exercise resistance bands (record). Cora and

Dawson were pronounced that evening; Callan was found with a faint pulse, taken

to hospital, and died on 27 January 2023 (record: Day 3; date reported).

## Case history

## The trial

Defence. Argued she was psychotic and not criminally responsible. Dr. Phillip

Resnick, forensic psychiatrist, gave the opinion that she was psychotic

(record: Day 18).

Commonwealth. Argued she understood what she was doing. Dr. Kirk Heilbrun

addressed criminal responsibility (record: Day 20), and Dr. Gregory Saathoff

testified in rebuttal (record: Day 20).

Whether she testified is not established from the transcripts in this

archive and is not asserted here. Her name appears as a speaker label on a small

number of turns, which the speaker roster treats as unresolved.

## Legal representation

(record: all four appear throughout the transcripts)

## Related entities

in testimony to her "separation or estrangement from her then husband"

(record: Day 18). This archive does not state that a divorce was completed,

because the record does not establish one.

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In the trial record

Generated from the transcripts. Every figure below is counted from the record itself, not estimated.

Speaks in the record: 31 turns across 12 days.

Named elsewhere in the archive: 810 times across 148 sources.

Also appears in the transcripts as: Lindsey Clancy

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