Jury selection starts in Lindsay Clancy trial

Jury selection began on Monday, July 20, 2026, in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother charged with murdering her three young children in January 2023. Clancy, 36, appeared in a Plymouth courtroom in a wheelchair, showing little emotion as the process to select 18 jurors, including six alternates, got underway. The trial, expected to last several weeks, will center on whether she was legally insane due to severe postpartum psychosis when she killed her children.

Clancy is accused of strangling her three children-Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months-inside the family's home in Duxbury on January 24, 2023. Prosecutors allege she deliberately asked her husband, Patrick Clancy, to leave the house to pick up food and medication before using exercise bands to carry out the killings. After the incident, authorities say she jumped from a second-story window in an apparent suicide attempt, an act that left her paralyzed from the waist down.

Her defense team, led by attorney Kevin Reddington, does not dispute that she caused the children's deaths but plans to argue she is not guilty by reason of insanity. They contend she was suffering from a severe postpartum...