Lindsay Clancy Trial: Trooper Reveals No One Was Allowed to See Her
State Police Trooper Dan Lawlor 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.
Lawlor testified he responded to South Shore Hospital, where he served an evidence preservation order and collected Clancy's clothing and jewelry, along with other physical evidence. Under cross-examination, he confirmed she wasn't wearing shoes. But the detail that actually matters: Lawlor said his job at the hospital was to "maintain custody" of Clancy — meaning nobody, not a lawyer, not anyone, got near her until a court order let a psychiatrist in. That's not standard hospital protocol. That's a state trooper posted at the door.
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.
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