Lindsay Clancy trial hears psychiatrist never met her in person

The trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children, continued on Monday, August 10, 2026, with intense cross-examination of her psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Tufts. The defense questioned Tufts about her treatment decisions and limited in-person contact with Clancy in the months before the January 2023 killings.

Prosecutors allege that Clancy, 35, strangled her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, with an exercise band in their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023, after sending her husband out on errands. She then jumped from a second-story window and was paralyzed from the waist down. Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder charges, with her defense arguing she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible.

During Monday's hearing, Dr. Tufts testified that all 14 of her appointments with Clancy between September 2022 and January 2023 were conducted via telehealth. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington pressed Tufts on this point, and she acknowledged she had never met Clancy in person until taking the stand to testify. Tufts stated that during video sessions, she could not observe Clancy's hands...