{"id":4201,"date":"2026-08-20T10:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:38:32","slug":"psychologist-testifies-lindsay-clancy-was-not-criminally-responsible-in-killing-of-3-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=4201","title":{"rendered":"Psychologist testifies Lindsay Clancy was not criminally responsible in killing of 3 children"},"content":{"rendered":"

PLYMOUTH, Mass. \u2014 Lindsay Clancy didn\u2019t appreciate the \u201cwrongfulness\u201d of killing her three children because of her mental health issues, a psychologist testifying for the defense said at her murder trial Wednesday.<\/p>

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The testimony of Paul Zeizel is the strongest evidence yet to support the defense contentions that Clancy should not be held legally responsible for murder because she has bipolar disorder and was in the grip of a rare mental illness called postpartum psychosis when she killed her three children before trying to kill herself. Zeizel began seeing Clancy as a patient at a hospital after the deaths.<\/p>

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\u201cShe was unable to conform her behavior to the rule of law. She had no appreciation for the wrongfulness of her act,\u201d Zeizel said, adding that she had \u201ca mental disease or a defect.\u201d<\/p>

Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. Postpartum psychosis is linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. Researchers estimate that the condition \u2014 which is more serious and less common than postpartum depression \u2014 afflicts 1 to 2 per 1,000 women after delivery.<\/p>

Prosecutors say the former labor and delivery nurse planned the January 2023 killings and contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for the family.<\/p>

Clancy was not getting better<\/h2>

Zeizel, who said he spent more than 35 hours with Clancy over dozens of visits and reviewed her medical records, said she went to a perinatal clinic in December 2022 because she felt her \u201cbrain was damaged,\u201d \u201cshe should kill herself\u201d and that she \u201cis never going to get any better.\u201d She also showed signs of psychosis, was paranoid and feared that people could hear her thoughts and that she would lose her children.<\/p>

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\u201cShe was worried that her children would be removed from her and that she would never see them again,\u201d he said.<\/p>

But just because she was in a psychotic state, Zeizel said, that didn\u2019t mean she couldn\u2019t do \u201ceveryday tasks of living\u201d like driving and searching the internet, a reference to the fact that the day of the killings she took her daughter to the doctor, played with the children in the snow and searched online for a pharmacy and a restaurant.<\/p>

\u201cSo the fact she is not talking about the unicorns in the corner, she is not slurring her words and she is not unable to walk, to your opinion to a degree of medical certainty, does that mean she is not in a psychotic state?\u201d Clancy\u2019s attorney Kevin Reddington asked.<\/p>

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Zeizel responded: \u201cIt does not.\u201d<\/p>

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