Jury hears 911 call as mother on trial for killing children

A Massachusetts mother on trial for murdering her three young children sobbed in court this week as jurors heard the harrowing 911 call her husband made after discovering the tragedy. Lindsay Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, on January 24, 2023. The central question of the trial is whether she was criminally responsible for the killings or was experiencing a severe postpartum mental illness.

The court heard testimony that Patrick Clancy returned to their Duxbury home after a brief errand to pick up takeout food and children's medicine. He found the house unusually silent and, after searching, discovered blood in the main bedroom and an open window. He found his wife lying injured on the ground outside after she had jumped from a second-floor window. She told him she had tried to kill herself and that the children were in the basement, but did not say they were dead.

Jurors listened to the 911 recording in which Patrick Clancy, still on the line with a dispatcher, is heard speaking to his wife and then going to check on the children. Moments later, he screams, "She...