Lindsay Clancy’s chilling calls to husband before murder of children may prove crime was 'premeditated'
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DUXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS: Prosecutors working on the trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy who strangled her three children to death before attempting to kill herself, claim they are looking for any evidence that hints she "premeditated" the killings. They are probing Clancy's behavior, moments leading to the tragic killing after the mother allegedly called her husband and chatted with him.
"What is going to be an issue is her mental state and whether she was legally responsible," Defense attorney Duncan Levin said. Whilst prosecutors connect the dots in the ill-fated tragedy, the defense team has pleaded an insanity plea, citing mental health issues that allegedly culminated and wrecked Clancy's postnatal mind. She is accused of killing Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and seven-month-old baby Callan but is yet to face charges related to the children's death.
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What can the phone calls and evidence prove?
The evidence could prove the killings were "premeditated and that she was in a calm, collected frame of thinking," Levin told The Sun. "This case is not going to center around whether she committed the murders or not. That's something that is not going to be an issue in this case. What is going to be an issue is her mental state and whether she was legally responsible," he said.
The 32-year-old nurse was battling postpartum depression and was given 13 different drugs over the course of eight months which gave her side effects such as "homicidal and suicidal ideation." Prosecutors have charged her with two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of strangulation and suffocation, and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
What really happened?
Clancy had sent her husband Patrick to get food, and when the father returned, he was horrified. Patrick found a bloodied Lindsay with broken bones outside in the yard. He found his toddlers strangled to death in the basement. The mother of three is believed to have thrown herself from the window of the Duxbury home. She was taken to the hospital and remains there for treatment after the horrific ordeal left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Prosecutors allege the mother who had asked her husband Patrick to collect takeout, could have been made "in an effort to lure him away for a longer period of time so that she had more time to commit these murders," Levin claims. "The prosecution is going to have to prove that even if she was mentally ill, she still knew that what she was doing was wrong or illegal." "They will use [that evidence] to show that she was not suffering from psychosis at the time of the murders," reported the source.