Lindsay Clancy Defense Opens: "A Good Nurse Who Begged for Help"

The defense had its say this week as opening statements continued in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, and has pleaded not guilty. Attorney Kevin Reddington is arguing an insanity defense, centered on claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Reddington's opening leaned hard into character and context: a good nurse, a great mother, a woma...