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Lindsay Clancy’s husband confided in a household pal about his spouse’s psychological well being struggles and expressed considerations that she was struggling withdrawal from an anxiousness prescription a month earlier than she allegedly killed their three kids after which tried suicide.
Clancy, a 32-year-old nurse, allegedly used train ropes to strangle and kill her three kids – Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months – earlier than she lower her personal wrists and neck and jumped from the bed room window of her Duxbury, Massachusetts, dwelling on Jan. 24.
Tuesday’s court docket look was rescheduled for July 25, and Clancy was transferred to Tewksbury State Hospital, based on court docket information.
Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, revealed throughout her Feb. 7 arraignment that she is paralyzed from the waist down. He declined touch upon Tuesday however informed Fox Information Digital that he plans to file a movement to alter the venue if the case reaches superior court docket.
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Lindsay Clancy with two of their three kids on this undated photograph. (Lindsay Marie Clancy/ Fb)
At this level, the case is in Plymouth District Court docket, the place Clancy was arraigned from her hospital mattress through Zoom, and seen carrying a neck brace and facemask. Felony circumstances go to superior court docket in Massachusetts after a grand jury indictment.
Clancy and her husband, Patrick, had dinner with their buddies on Jan. 22 – two days earlier than the incident – and Lindsay “appeared pretty regular, principally quiet whereas on her cellphone and maintaining to herself,” their pal informed authorities, based on court docket information obtained by Fox Information Digital.
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The pal was “truly stunned she was there as a consequence of Pat’s statements about her well being, and (the household pal) did not know she was coming that night time,” the court docket doc says.
It was the primary time they noticed Clancy “in a pair months.”
Lindsay Clancy holding her youngest baby, Callan, who was solely 7 months previous when he died. (Lindsay Marie Clancy fb)
Patrick has been buddies with the couple since school, and each households despatched their kids to the identical daycare.
Over the month and a half earlier than the incident, the paperwork word, Patrick informed his buddies that Lindsay was prescribed extra remedy, and he was involved that she was affected by withdraws from Benzodiazepines, a medicine prescribed for anxiousness, court docket information say.
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He mentioned Lindsay “had the worst unwanted effects attainable.”
Throughout a morning daycare drop off, “Pat appeared as if he was having a tough morning” and opened as much as his pal’s spouse, court docket paperwork say.
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On Jan. 5, Patrick texted her about his concern concerning Lindsay’s therapy and drugs and famous that he felt Lindsay “was prescribed too many medicines,” based on court docket information, which didn’t embrace the message exchanges.
Clancy’s protection staff has urged that Lindsay, now charged with homicide, assault and battery with a lethal weapon, and strangulation for the deaths of every of her three kids, was being mishandled by a “flawed” psychological well being care system, and that her remedy had turned her right into a “zombie.”
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Reddington detailed what number of completely different medicines she was prescribed in a brief period of time, how typically the medication have been modified, or the dosages have been altered, and mentioned she checked herself in for psychiatric assist as a result of she had suicidal ideas.
Patrick didn’t inform his buddies that he feared his spouse would harm herself, based on court docket paperwork.
Lindsay Clancy’s three kids, 5year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 7-month-old Callan, who died. (Lindsay Marie Clancy fb)
In the meantime, prosecutors have portrayed Lindsay’s alleged actions as premeditated homicide, presenting proof of Google searches and argued she purposely despatched her husband out of the home and timed how lengthy she had.
“The defendant didn’t make the most of the state of affairs when her husband left the house that night time, she created it,” Assistant District Legal professional Jennifer Sprague mentioned throughout Clancy’s Feb. 7 arraignment.
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Patrick had been gone lower than half-hour to run a pair errands for his spouse that night, and he got here dwelling to a wierd silence.
He finally discovered his spouse of their yard following her suicide try, and requested the place the children have been. She replied, “within the basement,” ADA Sprague mentioned.
Exterior view of the house of Patrick and Lindsay Clancy in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023. Lindsay Clancy, 32, allegedly killed their three kids right here earlier than trying to take her personal life on Jan. 24, 2023. (David McGlynn for Fox Information Digital)
First responders heard his screams when he discovered his three younger kids within the basement, based on detailed court docket paperwork.
The incident shook the suburban seaside neighborhood, together with the primary responders who discovered the younger kids and tended to Clancy.
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Patrick Clancy has stored out of the media highlight apart from a Jan. 28 assertion on a GoFundMe web page, the place he mentioned he had forgiven his spouse and desires everybody else to do the identical.
“The true Lindsay was generously loving and caring in direction of everybody — me, our youngsters, household, buddies, and her sufferers,” he wrote. “The very fibers of her soul are loving. All I want for her now’s that she will in some way discover peace.”
