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Four clinicians treated Lindsay Clancy in the months before her children died, and each of them has now testified about what they saw. None of them described psychosis. Her defense says she was hearing a voice instructing her to kill her three children and then herself.
Clancy's not guilty pleas cover three counts of first-degree murder in the Duxbury deaths of Cora, Dawson, and Callan on January 24, 2023. The defense has never argued she wasn't responsible for their deaths. Prosecutors contend she planned it and carried it out knowingly.
Tony Brueski brings in psychotherapist Shavaun Scott, who has practiced for more than thirty years across trauma, anxiety, depression, and the psychology of violence, for part one of a three-part conversation.
The starting point is how uncommon this is. Prevalence figures cluster around one to two cases per thousand deliveries. Researchers describe episodes where disorientation and total clarity trade places inside the same day, which is why a patient can look fine in a twenty-five-minute appointment.
Shavaun addresses the timing. This illness normally shows up within days or weeks of a birth. Callan had turned eight months.
She separates psychosis from psychopathy, explains where an intrusive thought stops and a command voice starts, and takes on why Clancy told her providers one thing and her husband another. She closes on the fact prosecutors lean on hardest: that Clancy scheduled her own appointments, advocated for herself, and presented with clear, linear thinking right up to the day before.
Her memoir, Nightbird, draws on the same clinical background. Two more parts follow this one.
Clancy survived a suicide attempt the same day and is paraplegic. She attends her trial in a wheelchair. Shavaun addresses what it means that her final appointment with a psychiatrist happened on January 23, the day before, and that the notes from it recorded a flat, anxious, numb mood with no motivation.

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One line of forensic testimony in the Lindsay Clancy trial has convinced an enormous number of people that her husband was the one holding those exercise bands. Search Lindsay Clancy fingerprints and you will find it everywhere, usually with his name attached to it.
Trooper Jonathan O'Loughlin testified that investigators recovered no usable fingerprints from the knife or the three bands. If her prints were not on them, the argument runs, somebody else was holding them. Tony Brueski takes that argument seriously enough to check it against the rest of the same testimony.
Then he keeps going down the list. What a forensic toxicologist told the jury about the four medications in her blood. What an interior bedroom door actually does. Who was on the other end of two phone calls that evening and what they heard. Who is testifying at Plymouth Superior Court, and which of those witnesses are named in the civil suits.
And a phone conversation from the first anniversary that has been sitting in the open for two years while everyone argued past it.
There is a difference between no usable fingerprints and no DNA, and the two keep getting blended together. Her DNA was on those bands, and both sides agreed to it in open court.
On August 4 she answered the judge out loud, more than once, agreeing that the Commonwealth would not have to prove certain forensic facts about the blood, the bands and the DNA. Her attorney told the court they had not been contesting the government's case in chief at all.
If you have argued about this case with anybody, get the whole list first. Then argue.

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One trial is live. One retrial is more than a year out. Tony Brueski takes listener questions on both in a single combined cut. His guest is Robin Dreeke, retired FBI Special Agent and former chief of the Bureau's Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.
The Lindsay Clancy trial is in the middle of medical testimony at Plymouth Superior Court, with the case expected to run six to eight weeks and more than a hundred and eighty witnesses on the list. Two treating psychiatrists have testified they saw no psychosis. One of them acknowledged she does not think she has ever treated a patient with postpartum psychosis, a condition that affects roughly one to two mothers per thousand births.
The Alex Murdaugh retrial is tentatively set for April 5, 2027 before Judge Debra McCaslin. Pretrial proceedings are running out of Lexington County. Prosecutors have moved to admit his 2023 trial testimony and to bar polygraph evidence and third-party guilt. The defense has demanded a fresh Brady and Giglio search with written certification inside thirty days, independent DNA testing, and a change of venue.
Different states, different crimes, different defendants. What lines up is the fight over what the record does not contain and who is responsible for that.
Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and is presumed innocent. Her defense argues she was not criminally responsible. Alex Murdaugh's convictions were overturned by the South Carolina Supreme Court. He awaits retrial and is presumed innocent. He has denied the killings throughout.
Robin Dreeke takes all three segments and listeners run the questions. Postpartum psychosis affects roughly one to two mothers per thousand births. 988 is available if you need it.

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A killing with an eyewitness account contradicted by the autopsy. Video of the defendant striking the victim. Neighbors calling 911 six times in three months. On True Crime Today, Tony Brueski asks what more a prosecution needs, because in the Courtney Clenney case, all of it added up to six years.
Clenney stabbed Christian Obumseli in their Miami apartment on April 3, 2022, and told detectives she threw the knife from ten feet away in self-defense. The medical examiner found a forceful downward thrust instead. She told the 911 operator the wound was in his shoulder. It was in his chest. For four months after his death she remained free, photographed at a hotel bar days later, until an arrest in Hawaii and a bond denial that cited her money and her history of violating court orders.
On August 10, 2026, the second-degree murder charge vanished. In its place came manslaughter with a deadly weapon, a guilty plea, and a six-year sentence with four years of jail credit already earned. Tony walks through the honest case for the deal, including the battered-partner evidence and the family's approval, and the harder case against it, built entirely from the state's own words and filings.
Then there is the twist from the hearing itself, a legal maneuver by her attorneys that concerns money, a Florida statute, and what Clenney is allowed to do once she is out. It is the detail that turns a sentencing story into something else.
Christian was twenty-seven, a young man his mother asked the world to remember as more than a case name. This one stays with the facts, in the order that makes them land.
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The Lindsay Clancy murder trial delivered its most clinical — and most brutal — testimony yet today. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — 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 attorney Kevin Reddington is building an insanity defense around claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.
Three witnesses took the stand. Nichole Bradley, Assistant Deputy Superintendent with the Plymouth County Sheriff's Department, described the security watch maintained on Clancy's hospital room. Then the medical testimony began. Renee Stonebridge of the Chief Medical Examiner's Office, trained in neuropathology, testified that all three children died from asphyxia, with significant brain swelling from lost oxygen and blood supply. Dr. Barbara Olson, who conducted the autopsies on Cora and Dawson, testified that bruises found on Cora were recent, though she couldn't specify exactly when they were inflicted, and that both children would have experienced pain as they lost consciousness during strangulation. Cause of death for both: mechanical asphyxiation.
The testimony proved too much for the courtroom more than once — recesses were called as Clancy had visible emotional reactions to what was being described.
Clancy allegedly attempted suicide by jumping from a second-story window after the killings and remains paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several more weeks.
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