Lindsay Clancy's Attorney Asked About the Voices and Got This Answer

Lindsay Clancy Trial: Detective Reveals What Was Really on Her Phone

Detective Timothy Chiappini of the Massachusetts State Police, a specialist in cell phone forensics, took the stand today in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. Clancy faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She has pleaded not guilty and is mounting an insanity defense, with attorney Kevin Reddington arguing she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication at the time of the killings. Chiappini walked jurors through the digital trail pulled straight from Clancy's phone — starting with a journal entry in which she wrote about resenting her older children, feeling they were standing between her and bonding with Callan, and struggling with sleep training and weaning him off breastfeeding. He testified she wanted to parent each child "as her first." He also detailed photos on the phone that were edited on January 23, 2023 — the day before the killings — and laid out the calls, texts, and map searches from that night. On cross, Reddington steered jurors toward a different set of searches on that same phone, and toward messages between Clancy and her mother — material the defense will lean on to argue psychosis, not clarity. Prosecutors are expected to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions despite the defense's mental-health claims. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out of the home running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial, underway in Plymouth Superior Court, is expected to last several weeks. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] Disclaimer This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #CellPhoneForensics #Breaking

Lindsay Clancy's Attorney Asked About the Voices and Got This Answer

Kevin Reddington asked a state police sergeant whether the prosecution believed a defense psychologist told Lindsay Clancy to say she had heard voices. The question triggered a twenty-minute sidebar and a hearing outside the jury's presence.Clancy faces three first-degree murder charges in the deaths of her children at the family's Duxbury home on January 24, 2023. She has admitted to the killings. Her attorneys argue postpartum psychosis left her unable to distinguish right from wrong. Prosecutors contend she planned the deaths and carried them out with intent.Sgt. Daniel Lawlor had been guarding Clancy's room at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He testified he stayed outside the door while psychologist Paul Zeizel was with Clancy. She used Zeizel's phone to reach Patrick Clancy and reported to him that she had heard commanding voices.Lawlor confirmed under questioning that detective Josh McKelligan raised the coaching theory. He also confirmed no investigation had produced evidence for it. Buckingham denied it reflected the prosecution's thinking and pointed out that theories in active cases change.Later in the day, doctors from the state medical examiner's office testified about the mechanism and timeline of the children's deaths. Reddington chose not to cross-examine. Clancy was escorted from the courtroom after breaking down during testimony. Therapist Latiesha Dukes also told jurors she never saw signs of psychosis or mania across four sessions with Clancy. Listen Anywhere You Get Podcasts: https://pod.link/1655749292Want [https://pod.link/1655749292Want] to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin [https://www.youtube.com/@UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJgJoin] Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/Instagram] https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/Facebook] https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/Tik-Tok] https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspodX] Twitter https://x.com/tonybpod [https://x.com/tonybpod] This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LindsayClancy #ClancyTrial #TrueCrime #PostpartumPsychosis #PlymouthSuperiorCourt #DuxburyMA #HiddenKillers #MaternalMentalHealth #CriminalResponsibility #KevinReddington

Lindsay Clancy's Phone Told Its Own Story — A Detective Laid It Out

A Massachusetts State Police detective specializing in cell phone forensics spent today's session in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial reconstructing exactly what was on her phone in the days and hours before her three children died. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, is charged with murdering 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan by strangling them with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She's pleaded not guilty and is pursuing an insanity defense — attorney Kevin Reddington arguing severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication left her not criminally responsible. Detective Timothy Chiappini read a journal entry pulled from the phone in which Clancy described resentment toward her older kids, saying they were getting in the way of her bonding with Callan. He testified about her struggles with sleep training Callan and stopping breastfeeding, and her stated desire to parent each child like a first child. Chiappini also flagged photos edited on the phone on January 23 — one day before the killings — and mapped out the calls, texts, and location data from that final night. Reddington used cross-examination to redirect attention to a different category of searches on the same device, and to a series of texts between Clancy and her mother, laying groundwork for the defense's psychosis argument. Prosecutors maintain Clancy knew exactly what she was doing. After the killings, she allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window and is now paralyzed from the waist down. Husband Patrick Clancy was running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several weeks. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] Disclaimer This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #DigitalForensics #Breaking

Clancy Trial Bombshell Unravels: Suicide Search Wasn't Even Hers, Trooper Admits

A digital forensics witness delivered one of the more whiplash-inducing moments of the Lindsay Clancy trial today, and it happened in the space of a single cross-examination. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is charged with murdering her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — allegedly strangling them with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and her attorney Kevin Reddington is mounting an insanity defense built around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication. Kyle Pavao, a Massachusetts State Police cyber crime unit examiner, testified he pulled a search for "how to commit suicide" off the family's Surface Pro, along with searches tied to Tom T. Hall's suicide and Wikipedia's suicide methods page. On direct, it read like a roadmap to the state's timeline. Then Reddington got up. Pavao conceded the search actually ran on Patrick Clancy's computer in August 2022 — months before the deaths — and that there's no way to identify who was actually typing. He also confirmed the machine held a wide range of other searches about medications, side effects, and bipolar disorder. Context the state didn't lead with. Prosecutors are expected to argue Clancy understood the nature of her actions despite the defense's mental-health claims. After the killings, Clancy allegedly attempted to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out of the home running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial, underway in Plymouth Superior Court, is expected to last several weeks. Links Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] Disclaimer This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. Hashtags  #LindsayClancy #DuxburyTragedy #PostpartumPsychosis #TrueCrime #PlymouthCounty #CoraDawsonCallan #InsanityDefense #KevinReddington #TrueCrimeToday #Breaking

Was Lindsay Clancy's Doctor Qualified To Rule It Out?

Ruling out a condition you have never encountered is a different act than ruling out one you know. That question runs through the medical testimony in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial. Clancy stands charged with three counts of first-degree murder, all pleaded not guilty, in the January 24, 2023 deaths of her three children. She has not contested causing their deaths. The defense claims postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder are why she is not criminally responsible. The state's argument is that she acted knowingly and should be held accountable. Dr. Alia Goodheart of McLean Hospital testified her caseload had never included one, and could not say how many postpartum depression patients she had treated in twenty years. Dr. Jennifer Tufts testified she was not certain how rare the condition is, and that she had not treated any such patients in the period before Clancy came to her. Psychotherapist Shavaun Scott joins Tony Brueski for part two of three. Shavaun has practiced for more than thirty years across trauma, anxiety, depression, and the psychology of violence. The conversation covers the records that were never requested, the releases that were never signed, and fourteen video appointments with a psychiatrist who was never in the same room with her. It covers what it means that Clancy spent her career as a labor and delivery nurse and was treated as a reliable reporter by everyone who saw her. It also covers the care that held up. A psychiatric nurse practitioner gave Clancy her personal cell number and called her on a day off. Neither has admitted liability. Julie Paul launched South Shore Hospital's Perinatal Behavioral Health Program in 2018 and met Clancy through Clancy's then-mother-in-law, a nurse at the same hospital. Their contact lasted about ten days because Paul was leaving for another job. Tufts finished her residency in July 2022, the month before Clancy's first appointment. END LINKS Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ [https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/] Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1] Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ [https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/] Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod [https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod] X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod [https://x.com/TrueCrimePod] DISCLAIMER This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. HASHTAGS #LindsayClancy #JenniferTufts #HiddenKillers #McLeanHospital #ClancyTrial #TrueCrime #AliaGoodheart #PostpartumCare #MedicalMalpractice #PlymouthSuperiorCourt