A Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children to death with elastic bands while suffering from postpartum psychosis has been charged with murder.
Lindsay Clancy, 32, was indicted Friday by a Plymouth grand jury on three counts of murder and strangulation.
Clancy allegedly attacked and killed his three children Cora Clancy, 5, Dawson Clancy, 3, and Callan Clancy, 8 months, on January 24 at the family’s Duxbury home.
The mother, a labor and delivery nurse, then attempted suicide and therefore remains in the hospital.
Clancy suffered from severe postpartum depression and was prescribed a cocktail of “over-the-top” pills that her indulgent husband, Patrick Clancy, believes were to blame for the tragedy.
Clancy allegedly attacked and killed his three children Cora Clancy, 5, Dawson Clancy, 3, and Callan Clancy, 8 months.
Lindsay Clancy, 32, was indicted Friday by a Plymouth grand jury on three counts of murder and strangulation.
The mother, a labor and delivery nurse, then attempted suicide and therefore remains in the hospital.
Postpartum psychosis is defined by the National Institutes of Health as the most severe form of mental illness in this category and is characterized by extreme confusion, loss of contact with reality, paranoia, delusions, a process disorganized thinking and hallucinations.
It usually occurs within the first six weeks after delivery and “warrants immediate medical and psychiatric care and hospitalization if there is a risk of suicide or filicide.”
Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin J Reddington, previously told a judge that the drugs Lindsay was prescribed made her feel like a “zombie”.
Chilling audio of the 911 call Patrick made that night reveals the extent of the horror.
Clancy suffered cuts to her wrists and lacerations, allegedly self-inflicted before jumping from a window in her home.
Patrick found his wife lying outside their house after returning from collecting takeaways for the family.
As first responders arrived on scene and tended to his wife, Patrick could be heard screaming in the basement of the home.
There he found the children unconscious and bruised with exercise bands around their necks.
The state’s chief medical examiner would rule that the two older children died of asphyxiation, while little Callan died from complications related to asphyxia.
Clancy was arrested Feb. 7 from her bed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Clancy suffered from severe postpartum depression and was prescribed a cocktail of “over-the-top” pills that her indulgent husband, Patrick Clancy (second from left), believes are to blame for the tragedy.
The tragedy occurred on January 24 at the family home at 47 Summer Street in Duxbury.
A well-wisher visits the makeshift memorial which has sprung up outside the family’s Duxbury home
“The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring to everyone – me, our children, our family, our friends and her patients,” Patrick said of his wife.
The state’s chief medical examiner would rule that the two older children died of asphyxiation, while little Callan died of asphyxiation.
“One of the major problems here is the horrible overmedication of medications that has caused homicidal and suicidal ideation,” Reddington said in February.
“They (Lindsay and her husband Patrick) went to doctors several times and said ‘please help us.
“It was turning her into a zombie…the medications prescribed were over the top, absolutely over the top.”
“She received regular medical care and treatment. And her husband was very proactive in trying to protect her and help her with the medications prescribed to her by the doctors.
“They went through hell and they didn’t come back,” he said.
He intends to use it as a defense against the murder charges. Patrick, her husband, says he has forgiven her.
In a GoFundMe message to friends and strangers who raised $1 million for him, he said, “I want to ask you all to find deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay, as I have.” ‘have done.
“The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring to everyone: me, our children, our family, our friends and her patients.
“The very fibers of his soul are loving. All I wish for her now is that she can find peace somehow.
