LINDSAY CLANCY WAS “IN CONTROL” WHEN SHE KI-LLED HER THREE CHILDREN, FORENSIC PSYCHIATRIST TELLS COURT — A BOMBSHELL TESTIMONY THAT COULD DESTROY HER DEFENSE AND REWRITE EVERYTHING JURORS THOUGHT THEY KNEW ABOUT THAT H0RRIFIC NIGHT
Testimony in Lindsay Clancy’s high-stakes murder trial is likely to wrap up today as the final witness is slated to continue his testimony this morning.
Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Saathoff is expected to finish telling the jury in Plymouth, Mass., court what his evaluation was of the 36-year-old Duxbury mother and whether. He is testifying as the last prosecution rebuttal witness.
Clancy – a former labor and delivery nurse – by reason of insanity based on claims she was experiencing severe postpartum psychosis and hearing a voice telling her to kill herself and murder kids Cora, 5, Dawson, 3 and 8-month-old Callan.
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He said he had in the late 1980s and 1990s.
Clancy’s defense is that she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible for strangling her three kids because she had postpartum psychosis and was hearing a voice telling her to carry out the heinous acts.
One of the many meds Lindsay Clancy had been prescribed in the four months before she killed her kids was a dose so low it would have been safe for a child to take, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Saathoff testified.
Clancy was on 10 to 20 milligrams of antidepressant Amitriptyline which was one of the lowest doses someone could be prescribed and was safe for kids, the psychiatrist said.
Part of Clancy’s defense is that she was misdiagnosed and overmedicated by healthcare providers, contributing to her severe postpartum psychosis.
Jurors have heard she was given 30 prescriptions for 13 powerful psychiatric medications from September 2022 to when she strangled her kids on Jan. 24, 2023.
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has begun grilling forensic psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Saathoff — the final witness at trial.
She made sure there were no witnesses home, she concealed the crime and she executed the crimes during a short period of time — all of which showed she was aware of what she was doing.
“Throughout the day she was methodical, quite controlled and organized,” Saathoff said.
He said he thinks Clancy is criminally responsible for the crimes.
“Well in the small amount of time that Ms. Clancy had in the home without her husband, it was important in order to carry this out to do this quickly, methodically and the like,” Saathoff said.
“This is having no instructions as to how to do it but being able to execute those decisions including being able to get a phone call and return it to her husband in the process of all of this,” the doctor continued.
“That is surprising that she was able to accomplish all of this without any kind of direction or plan,” he said.
He said it showed “she had control of the sequence of what she was doing throughout.”
“I truly believe that her suicide attempt was very, very serious,” the psychiatrist said. “Which was why she employed three different methods.”
Clancy cut her wrists and neck with a knife, she tried to overdose on pills and she threw herself out of a second-story window on a frigid evening dressed in light clothing, jurors have learned.
“The fact that the lacerations were not deep doesn’t meant she was not intending to kill herself with a knife,” Saathoff said.
The potential last day of testimony in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial kicked off this morning with forensic psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Saathoff back on the witness stand.
Clancy was wearing a beige long sleeve shirt and her long brown hair was flowing loose down her back. She sat somberly in her wheelchair at the defense table.
After Saathoff’s testimony the jury will be let go for the day so that the lawyers can prepare the jury instructions and closing arguments.
“We are going to finish the evidence today, we will then excuse you… then hopefully arguments [tomorrow],” Judge William Sullivan told the jury.
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