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The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy is underway in Plymouth Superior Court, and the diagnoses on the table just multiplied. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is charged with killing her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — allegedly strangling them with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She then allegedly tried to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window, an injury that left her paralyzed from the waist down. She's pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. Her defense, led by Kevin Reddington, rests on an insanity claim built around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.
The prosecution's rebuttal witness had a different diagnosis in mind entirely. Dr. Avram Mack, a psychiatrist who reviewed Clancy's medical records and evaluated her in April 2026, told jurors that assessing someone's mental state requires looking at who they were at the time of the act itself. He described a patient who showed no interest in her hygiene, the hospital's food, or the other patients around her — though she did have visitors on occasion. Mack noted she's taking numerous psychiatric medications, all at low doses.
His diagnosis: a major depressive episode within major depressive disorder. Not bipolar disorder — he testified he saw nothing in her records pointing to mania or hypomania. And notably, not postpartum psychosis either, which is the diagnosis the defense has built its entire case around.
Patrick Clancy, her husband, was running errands when the killings happened and has since moved to Manhattan. The trial is expected to continue for several more weeks.
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Lindsay Clancy has told one person the same account for three years, and on Day 17 of her murder trial that person finally testified. Hospital chaplain Sheila Cavanaugh — roughly two hundred visits at Tewksbury Hospital, plus fourteen at Brigham and Women's — took the stand for about twenty minutes, and those minutes may shape the verdict more than any expert who preceded her.
Cavanaugh testified that Clancy described a persistent male voice commanding her to kill her children and then herself, and that Clancy's first words after her breathing tube came out were about her children being safe. Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague countered that Cavanaugh's notes never documented a single mention of any voice, and Cavanaugh conceded the point. The stakes of that exchange are structural: Clancy admits the acts, so the entire trial is her state of mind, and Massachusetts law requires the Commonwealth to prove her criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt. The state's roughly seventy witnesses described a devoted nurse and mother. Its own phone evidence shows searches about hallucinations, psychosis, and postpartum psychosis symptoms before the killings — evidence Tony argues cuts directly against the theory that the voice was invented afterward.
Closing arguments are expected the week of August 24, and deliberations will follow soon after. This is the episode to hear before the verdict comes in.
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The defense's biggest witness took the stand today — and then the defense rested. Dr. Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist who specializes in filicide, the rare and specific category of a parent killing their own child, testified by Zoom 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's pleaded not guilty, and her defense, led by attorney Kevin Reddington, centers on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.
Resnick spent over three and a half hours evaluating Clancy in person about four months after the crime, plus another hour and a half with her parents. He said she was blunted and matter-of-fact while heavily medicated — and, notably, he pointed out the prosecution's own doctors didn't get to her until three years after the fact. No one, Resnick testified, found evidence she was lying or exaggerating; if anything, she minimized what she'd been through. His diagnosis: Bipolar II with severe depression, postpartum symptoms that got worse with each child, and on the day of the crime, postpartum psychosis — command hallucinations, a dreamlike disconnection from her own body. His bottom line: she couldn't conform her conduct to the law. She believed, he said, that she was doing right by her kids. On cross, prosecutors leaned hard on how statistically rare this is. Then the defense rested its case.
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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The prosecution opened by telling the jury that Keffe D is the one person who couldn't stay quiet about Tupac Shakur's murder. They described a pattern: FBI interviews, a federal task force session, on-camera appearances, and a published memoir called "Compton Street Legend" — all telling the same story about the night of September 7, 1996. The defense stood up and called the entire narrative fiction. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke sit down with the listener questions cutting through this trial. The prosecution concedes the book has inaccuracies and "at least one substantial lie." The defense says law enforcement knew for years that Keffe D was unreliable and never charged him because they had nothing. The case sat cold for nearly three decades. Orlando Anderson, the suspected shooter and Keffe D's nephew, died in 1998. The other two passengers in the white Cadillac are also dead. This trial may be the last chance to hold anyone accountable for one of the most famous unsolved killings in American music — and the jury has to decide whether a man's own repeated words are enough to prove he meant them.

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Lindsay Clancy told her journal she was drowning every day. She told her doctors she wasn't enjoying her children. She wrote that she wanted to feel happy and didn't know if the medications were real help or a mask. Her psychiatrist had fourteen appointments with her, including one the day before she allegedly killed her three children. That psychiatrist told the jury Clancy never seemed psychotic. Tony Brueski and retired FBI Special Agent Robin Dreeke answer the listener questions burning through this audience. How does a medical professional miss what a patient's own writing describes in plain language? The prosecution says Clancy was doctor shopping and switching medications to game the system. Nurses and mothers in this audience hear that and recognize desperation, not manipulation. After fourteen days on the prosecution's clock, the state rested. The defense is building its case around a woman who asked for help from every direction and got prescriptions instead of answers. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old.

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