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A Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three younger kids is providing to formally admit she killed them in a dramatic authorized transfer that might shift the main focus of her trial to her psychological state — and doubtlessly hold her out of jail.
Lindsay Clancy, who was a Duxbury labor and supply nurse, is keen to formally admit in writing to her position in the killings, in accordance to a new motion filed by protection legal professional Kevin Reddington.
The submitting, obtained by WCVB5, comes only one week after a choose denied Clancy’s request to break up her trial into separate phases that might have divided the query of whether or not she dedicated the acts from her psychological state on the time.
In asking the court docket to rethink, Reddington argued that Clancy’s admission would depart her psychological situation because the central challenge for a jury to determine. The submitting states that she is keen to formally acknowledge her involvement in the conduct that led to the deaths of her three kids.
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Lindsay Clancy is wheeled into the Plymouth Superior Court on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. Clancy grew to become paraplegic when she harmed herself and jumped out of a second-story window at her dwelling after the deaths of her three kids. She is charged with homicide in the kids’s deaths. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK through Imagn Images)
If she is in the end deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, she might be dedicated to a safe psychological well being facility somewhat than face jail beneath Massachusetts regulation.
Prosecutors haven’t agreed to the proposal. They beforehand opposed the concept of separating the trial, arguing that the proof offered in every part could be practically an identical.
Clancy was indicted in September 2023 on three counts of homicide and strangulation in reference to the deaths of her kids, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan.
Prosecutors allege that Clancy used train bands to strangle the kids contained in the household’s Duxbury dwelling on Jan. 24, 2023, earlier than trying to take her personal life.
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Exterior view of the house of Patrick and Lindsay Clancy in Duxbury, MA on Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Lindsay Clancy, 32, allegedly killed their three kids right here earlier than trying to take her personal life on January 24, 2023. (David McGlynn/Fox News Digital)
Her husband, Patrick Clancy, returned dwelling to what court docket paperwork describe as silence. He discovered blood on the ground and an open window earlier than discovering his spouse outdoors with cuts to her wrists and neck. She survived the obvious suicide try.
Previously unsealed information, spanning practically 300 pages, element Clancy’s actions in the hours main up to the killings.
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According to court docket paperwork, she had taken one of her kids to a pediatrician appointment earlier that day and contacted a CVS pharmacy a few prescription. She additionally ordered takeout from a neighborhood restaurant and used Apple Maps to calculate journey time from her dwelling.
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Lindsay Clancy with two of their three kids in this undated picture. (Lindsay Marie Clancy/ Facebook)
Investigators say she then requested her husband to decide up the meals and medicine, leaving her alone with the kids.
Authorities later executed a number of search warrants and picked up gadgets from the house, together with train bands, drugs, digital units, notebooks, clothes and a knife.
Lindsay Clancy listens to the Plymouth Superior Court proceedings on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, from Tewksbury Hospital. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK through Imagn Images)
Clancy’s protection group has indicated it is going to argue she was affected by severe postpartum depression and was overmedicated on the time of the killings.
Court information present she had been prescribed a quantity of psychiatric drugs, together with Zoloft, Prozac, Valium, Ativan, Klonopin, Trazodone and Seroquel.
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Her husband beforehand advised a household good friend he was involved she might have been experiencing withdrawal from an anxiety medication in the weeks earlier than the tragedy.
Clancy has additionally filed a lawsuit in opposition to her medical suppliers, alleging a catastrophic failure in diagnosing and treating her psychological well being situation.
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Lindsay Clancy, charged with the homicide of her three kids in Duxbury in 2023, seems in Plymouth Superior Court on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK through Imagn Images)
Clancy stays paralyzed from the chest down following her suicide try, her legal professional has stated, and is being held at Tewksbury State Hospital the place she continues to obtain psychiatric care beneath fixed supervision.
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She is anticipated to endure a court-ordered forensic psychological well being analysis between April 10 and April 12, with a standing listening to scheduled for April 23, according to NBC10 Boston. Clancy’s trial is scheduled to start July 20 after being delayed a number of occasions.
Fox News Digital’s Sarah Whitten-Rumpf and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
