Lindsay Clancy: Horrific details emerge about events leading up to tragic murder of 3 children by mom
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DUXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS: The bodies of the two children allegedly killed by their mother Lindsay Clancy, 32, were found in the basement of their home. Clancy pleaded not guilty to killing the children -- Cora, five, and Dawson, three, and seven-month-old Callan who died later in the hospital. New details about how the bodies were found have now emerged.
The children were found lying in the basement of their house and were discovered by their father, Patrick Clancy, it was confirmed at the hearing. Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague explained Patrick came back after he went out to get takeout food for the family in Duxbury, and found his bedroom door locked, according to WCVB. However, he managed to get in and subsequently found that his wife had allegedly slit her wrists and jumped out the second-story window.
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"He called 911. During this time, he asked the defendant [Lindsay], ‘What did you do?’ She responded to him, ‘I tried to kill myself and jumped out the window,'" Sprague told the court. "During the 911 call, Patrick can be heard asking the defendant, ‘Where are the kids?’ He later told police that she replied 'in the basement.'"
The children were found in the basement of the house
Patrick then headed downstairs to the basement, and reportedly screamed as he found Cora, Dawson, and Callan on the ground. All the children had an exercise resistance band around their necks that was used to strangle them, Evie Magazine reported.
Cora and Dawson reportedly died of ligament strangulation that night. It could have taken anywhere from 10 seconds to one minute for the child to fall unconscious. This would have followed by four-five minutes of the band remaining around their necks before they died. When Callan was taken to the hospital, his heart rate was resuscitated. However, his brain function did not return. The child had to be kept on life support for some days but he eventually died.
Lindsay Clancy's 'moment of psychosis'
Clancy was reportedly diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder in December last year. In the presence of Patrick, a psychiatrist told her that she did not suffer from postpartum depression. Clancy later told her husband she had suicidal ideations, and even admitted she thought about harming the children.
For some days after that, her life went on normally and she even told Patrick at one point that she no longer had suicidal thoughts. A few days ago, after the murders, Clancy was allowed to call her husband. She allegedly told him she had "a moment of psychosis" and when he left the house on January 24, a male voice told her to kill the children and herself as it was her last chance.