Newly unsealed documents in the case of a Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three young children list multiple items collected from the family’s Duxbury home in the days after the fatal incident.
The nearly 300 pages of documents contain 11 search warrants of Lindsay Clancy’s house, located at 47 Summer St. in Duxbury.
Among the items taken were Lindsay’s phone, which the documents claim have evidence of conversations and internet searches suggesting that she planned her attempted suicide and strangulations of her children.
Other items collected were exercise bands, medications, tablets, computers, notebooks, cameras, a bloody knife and even the receipt from the restaurant from which Lindsay’s husband picked up food that fatal night.
The documents also provided a list of injuries on two of the children’s bodies as well as Lindsay’s.
Clancy, 32, faces two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation, and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon stemming from the deaths of her children, 5-year-old Cora Clancy and 3-year-old Dawson Clancy. Prosecutors said Lindsay Clancy also injured her infant son Callan Clancy, who died days later in a hospital.
Duxbury police said they received a call from Clancy’s husband Patrick on Jan. 24, who, according to prosecutors, had returned home from ThreeV, a restaurant in Plymouth, to find three unconscious children with “obvious signs of trauma” and an attempted suicide by his wife.
Clancy was taken to a local hospital. She was later moved to Tewksbury State Hospital and ordered to stay for six months so doctors could provide extensive mental health care.
Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague described Clancy in the days leading up to the death of the three children as a person in control and aware of her emotions, often consulting her husband when she had suicidal thoughts.
The prosecutor said Clancy asked her husband on the day of the murders to run a handful of errands, including picking up products at a CVS and food from a restaurant. It was in that time, prosecutors argued, that Clancy deliberately strangled her three children, killing two of them and leaving the youngest injured.
She later jumped out of a window after injuring herself, prosecutors said.
But her attorney, Kevin Reddington, said Clancy was a woman with severe mental illness, was heavily medicated, and had postpartum depression following the birth of her youngest child.
Reddington has previously described the number of medications she was on as “stunning.” They included, according to Reddington, a common form of antidepressant, benzodiazepine, and Seroquel, among others.
“She was clearly overmedicated on top of that state of mind that she was in either from postpartum psychosis or postpartum depression,” Reddington said in an interview with MassLive in February.
An online donation drive to support Patrick Clancy surpassed $1 million. In a message posted there, Patrick Clancy asked people to “find it deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay, as I have.”
“The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring towards everyone – me, our kids, family, friends, and her patients,” he wrote. “The very fibers of her soul are loving. All I wish for her now is that she can somehow find peace.”
