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- The Massachusetts mother who
strangled her three children and tried to kill herself
appeared in court virtually today from her hospital bed as
her attorneys revealed she is paralyzed.Â
Lindsay Clancy, 32, is charged with three counts of premeditated murder for strangling her
three kids on January 24 at their family home
in Duxbury, Massachusetts.Â
Clancy's attorneys say she was severely depressed, suffering with post-partum
depression and even psychosis, caused by a cocktail of prescription drugs that turned her into a 'shell' of
herself and robbed her of her personality and ability to
feel emotions.Â
They say Lindsay told her husband - who has forgiven her - she heard
a 'man's voice' telling her to kill the children and then herself because it was her 'last choice'.Â
Prosecutors today launched a merciless prosecution, claiming she was
well aware of what she was doing and that she even planned it out. Â
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Clancy remains in the hospital after trying
to take her own life; she slit her wrists and jumped from a top
floor window of her home after strangling her kids, Cora,
five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months
They told the court she had been behaving normally in the days before the incident,
and that she had only referred to having slight 'post-partum anxiety' in notes found on her
iPhone.Â
They also referred to notes where she described 'resenting'
the older two children because they stopped her from 'loving Callan like he was her first
baby'.Â
Prosecutors say she deliberately sent her husband out to a
takeout restaurant that was far enough away from the home to give her time to kill the kids, and even researched how long it would take him to
drive there and back using Google Maps.
They also noted that she would have had to have strangled each child for several minutes with the exercise bands
in order for them to stop breathing. Â
'The bands had to have been squeezing their minds for several minutes.Â
 She is not OK, at all...
she's paraplegic, unable to move her legs or feel sensation...
she is paralyzed
'She could have changed her mind,' they said, calling it a 'premeditated' crime with a
'extreme cruelty'.Â
They say the first thing Lindsay asked doctors in the hospital was whether she needed a lawyer,
using a pen and whiteboard to scrawl out the question because she was
intubated at the time.Â
They also claimed she'd been behaving normally all day before the attack,
taking her kids to the pediatrician and then playing with them at the
house.Â
Lindsay was denied bond but will be allowed to stay in hospital
before being transferred to a rehab center.
She was ordered to surrender her passport.Â
After attacking the children, Lindsay slit her wrists
and then jumpedfrom her bedroom window, landing
in the family's backyard.Â
She suffered several spine fractures and is now a paraplegic, her attorney said.
'She is not OK, at all.
She suffered several, severe spine fractions. She is not expected to recover meaningful
function below that level of the spinal chord.Â
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Lindsay Clancy with her husband Patrick and their oldest
children, Cora, five, and Dawson, three.
SheÂ
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After strangling the kids, Lindsay tried to cut her own wrists.
She then jumped from a window at the family home. Baby Callan, eight months,
died in the hospital. Cora and Dawson died at home
'She's paraplegic, unable to move her legs or feel sensation. She is
paralyzed. |
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