Boston.com34%
Livestream: Lindsay Clancy murder trial enters second week after jurors hear from more first responders 18%
By Abby Patkin36%
8/3/2026, 6:00:24 AM
Keywords: Crime, Lindsay Clancy
BS Summary: This article contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Appeal to Emotion, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 30% saturation with 113 hits. Analysis detected 551 faulty-reasoning hits from 377 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 26.7% and a BS Rank of 18% (23,249 of 28,112 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 82.70% of the article peer group.
Testimony resumes Monday following an emotional first week in the Duxbury mother’s trial.
Clancy, now 35, does not deny that she killed 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan at home in Duxbury on Jan.
24, 2023.
However, she has pleaded not guilty under what’s commonly known as an insanity defense as she argues she was wracked by postpartum mental illness and heard a voice in her head that instructed her to kill.
Prosecutors, meanwhile, argue Clancy no longer liked her life as a mother and “deliberately and meticulously” strangled her children with exercise bands before attempting suicide — an act that left her paralyzed.
After visiting the Clancy family’s former home Friday morning during a view, jurors heard from two Duxbury police officers who testified that Clancy seemed to be “sedated and unconscious” in the hospital the night of Jan. 24, with several cuts to her arms and neck.
One of them, Officer Richard Lippard, told jurors Clancy experienced a life-threatening medical emergency known as a “code blue” while under his guard at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
“That kind of amped up the bedlam at that point, didn’t it?”
defense attorney Kevin Reddington asked.
“Yes, sir,” Lippard replied.
“There were people running from all over and you could hear on the [overhead] microphone, ‘code blue,’ with the room being identified, right?”
Reddington questioned.
“And that meant that she was dead or dying, right?”
Lippard answered “yes” to both questions.
Separately, two doctors who treated Dawson and Callan Clancy at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth testified about their resuscitation efforts.
Former emergency physician Dr.
Mark Tenerowicz recalled that hospital staff worked on Dawson for about 40 minutes before realizing his heart would likely never restart.
He said he declared the boy dead at about 7:28 p.m.
Emergency physician Dr.
Benjamin Kaufman testified that hospital staff were able to regain a pulse for Callan and continued life-saving efforts as they prepared to transfer him to Boston Children’s Hospital.
“At no point did he exhibit any brain function,” Kaufman testified.
Callan ultimately died days later at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Across the courtroom, Clancy covered her face as she wept during the doctors’ testimony.
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