Lindsay Clancy trial spotlights psychiatric hospital stay before she killed her 3 children

Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial centered Friday on nearly five days she spent in a psychiatric hospital shortly before killing her three children. Prosecutors questioned a McLean Hospital psychiatrist, emphasizing that Clancy denied to clinicians that she wanted to harm others or planned to kill herself. Clancy’s defense, meanwhile, sought to support its claim that she tried to get mental health help for months but was not properly diagnosed as she moved among providers, and that medications left her worse off. Clancy, 35, is charged in the January 2023 strangling deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, ages 8 months to 5 years. Prosecutors say she intentionally attacked after sending her husband out of the home. The defense argues she was so mentally ill she heard voices instructing her to kill her children and herself.