Killing of the Clancy children

Legendary card · No. 168

On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy fatally strangled her three children—five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan—at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, United States. She then cut her wrists and neck and jumped from a second-story window, sustaining injuries that left her paralyzed from the waist down. Lindsay later said she heard an auditory hallucination commanding her to commit the acts and felt unable to resist. Lindsay was prosecuted for three counts of murder in a criminal trial that began on July 20, 2026. She pleaded not guilty; her defense argued that she had been suffering from postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder and therefore lacked criminal responsibility for her actions. Much of the trial focused on her mental health in the months prior, during which she repeatedly sought treatment for symptoms including insomnia, intrusive thoughts, and suicidal ideation. Prosecutors argued that Lindsay was mentally aware at the time of the killings...

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