Shocking 911 call captured Lindsay Clancy’s husband Patrick Clancy ‘screaming in agony’ after finding children dead
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DUXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS: A Massachusetts nurse and mother told her husband that she tried to commit suicide after killing her three children with exercise bands, prosecutors have claimed. It was a normal afternoon just like any other day on January 24, but the world suddenly turned upside down for Lindsay Clancy's husband when he discovered the lifeless bodies of his children in his home and he allegedly shouted "she killed the kids", a court has heard.
Lindsay Clancy has been accused of killing Cora, five, Dawson, three, and fatally injuring eight-month-old Callan inside their Duxbury home on January 24. After examining the circumstances leading up to the murder, the prosecution concluded that Clancy planned and premeditated the killings, but the defense has remained steadfast in their assertion that she was mentally ill.
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On Tuesday, February 7, the attorneys claimed that according to the doctors' observations, Clancy was acting normally, and nothing seemed out of the ordinary.
What happened on the day of the killings?
According to NBC, the mother began the day by taking Cora to a doctor's appointment. She went back home and played in the snow with her daughter and Dawson. Prosecutors claimed that the three built snowmen and even sent photos to their family members. She then searched up "kids Miralax", a medicine used to treat children's constipation. The mother also looked up a nearby restaurant to order takeout and asked her husband Patrick what he wanted. "I didn't cook anything, It's been a long day," she allegedly texted her husband, according to The Sun.
They planned to get food at ThreeV Restaurant after she searched how long it would take to deliver. Prosecutors claim Clancy made a suspicious move here, but they admitted that the family had been there before. She asked her husband to pick up the food as well as the stool softener for one of the children.
The two even spoke for 14 seconds about what medicine she wanted while her husband was shopping at a local CVS. Patrick claimed that everything seemed to be normal when he was on the call but it seemed as if she was in the middle of something. Surveillance footage showed the father arriving at the home just after 6 pm but he did not see his wife or his children.
Clancy's husband called out her name and went inside the house only to find the bedroom door locked from the inside. He broke inside to see blood, attorneys allege. He found his wife outside the house on the ground and asked "What did you do?" She informed him that their children were in the basement and that she tried to take her own life. Patrick went to find the children deceased with the exercise band still wrapped around them while he was calling 911. The call captured him "screaming in agony and shock," attorneys said.
While Dawson was on the floor of their home office, Cora and Callan were in the den area of their finished basement. "She killed the kids", Clancy's husband Patrick allegedly shouted uncontrollably throughout the heartbreaking incident.
Clancy faces two counts of homicide, three counts of strangulation, and three counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. She is currently in the hospital with several broken bones in her back and rib cage. Her defense team said that she is likely going to be paralyzed in her lower portion.
The harrowing 911 call
A tormenting 911 call disclosed that Clancy tried to slit her neck before she jumped out of the window of her home. “A female party jumped off the top floor of the house,” a first responder is heard saying in the audio. “Impact injury, neck lacerations – she’s conscious at this time,” he continued, later detailing that it was a 20-foot-fall.
Another responder was also heard saying that they were unaware of where the knife “or whatever she used to slit” herself was. According to the New York Post, dispatchers also referred to the call as a “suicidal situation". Defense attorney Kevin Reddington has argued that Clancy was suffering a mental break and that she was overmedicated when she did the crime. "This continued even up until the week before when her husband went to the doctor and asked her for help and said, 'Please, you're turning her into a zombie,'" the attorney said.