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Lindsay Clancy Googled Psychosis, Hallucinations Days Before Killings
Phone data shows Lindsay Clancy searched psychosis, hallucinations and suicide methods before the killings, while defense experts say bipolar disorder drove her actions.
- On Thursday, Massachusetts State Police cellphone forensics expert Tim Chiappini presented phone data at Lindsay Clancy's murder trial revealing searches for psychosis, hallucinations, and suicide methods in the weeks before she strangled her three children in January 2023.
- Defense attorney Kevin Reddington argues Clancy suffered from bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis, citing an October 2022 note where she wrote she was "not enjoying any of my children, it was really sad."
- Prosecutors allege Clancy was an intentional killer who manipulated her husband, Patrick Clancy, by sending him to get takeout and medicine on January 24, 2023, to clear the house before the attack.
- Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham urged jurors not to view the trial as "a public debate about women," as the livestreamed proceedings attract intense public attention with conflicting medical evidence regarding Clancy's mental state.
- If convicted of murder, Clancy faces life in prison without parole; an acquittal based on lack of criminal responsibility would result in commitment to a state mental health facility.
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Before killing her kids, Lindsay Clancy searched about hallucinations, psychosis and ways to die
The trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy has turned to her search history about mental health concerns and medication side effects in the weeks before she strangled her three children in January 2023.
·New York, United States
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What Lindsay Clancy’s phone revealed about her trial’s central question
Lindsay Clancy used her phone to search for schizophrenia and psychosis just days before she killed her three children in January 2023, a Massachusetts State Police investigator testified Thursday at Clancy’s trial.
·Springfield, United States
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In the trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother of Massachusetts, she has analyzed her track record of searches for mental health problems and side effects of medications in the weeks leading up to the strangulation of her three children in January 2023.
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