Jury Deliberations Continue in Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial

Jury deliberations in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy continued without a verdict as of August 29, 2026, in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The panel of nine women and three men is weighing whether the former labor and delivery nurse should be held criminally responsible for the strangulation deaths of her three young children in January 2023. Both sides agree Clancy killed her children, but they sharply dispute her mental state and legal culpability at the time. The case centers on the events of January 24, 2023, at the family's home in Duxbury. Prosecutors allege Clancy, then 32, deliberately sent her husband, Patrick Clancy, on errands to get him out of the house before strangling their children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan, with exercise bands in the basement. She then jumped from a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down. Patrick Clancy discovered the scene upon his return, finding his wife injured outside and the children unresponsive in the basement. The defense argues Clancy was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis and should be found not criminally responsible.