A timeline of Lindsay Clancy’s postpartum struggles, killings and legal case

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Lindsay Clancy’s case began with a bout of insomnia and anxiety several months after the birth of her third child with her husband, Patrick, in a quiet suburb outside Boston.

A few months later, all three children of her children were dead, and Lindsay Clancy was hospitalized and partially paralyzed from a suicide attempt.

What happened in between those events was at the heart of Clancy’s triple murder trial, which ended in a hung jury and a mistrial in early September.

Prosecutors argued she intentionally and deliberately strangled her children, while her defense argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time and so was not criminally responsible for her actions. The dueling arguments raised questions about maternal mental health , the legal strategy known as the “ insanity defense ” and the American jury system.

Prosecutors have not yet said whether they plan to retry her. The next court hearing is set for November 2.

CNN reviewed documents, interviews and court proceedings to put together a timeline of her case. Here’s a closer look at Clancy’s spiraling mental health, the killings of her children, her triple murder trial and her ongoing legal situation.

May 2022 : Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, gives birth to her third child. She lives in Duxbury with Patrick and their three young children Cora, Dawson and Callan.

September 2022 : Clancy meets over telehealth with a psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Tufts , to address her anxiety, depression and insomnia. Clancy is prescribed about a dozen medications and meets with several other providers over the following four months as her mental health declines.

December 31, 2022 : Clancy is admitted to McLean Hospital , a psychiatric facility, after reporting thoughts of suicide and intrusive thoughts of hurting the kids. She is released after five days to attend her daughter’s birthday party.

January 23, 2023 : Clancy tells Tufts she is “doing all right,” denies any suicidal or homicidal ideation and shows no signs of psychosis, according to Tufts.

January 24, 2023 : Clancy sends Patrick out of the house to pick up dinner and medication from CVS. While he is gone, she fatally strangles her three children with exercise bands in the basement, cuts her own wrists and neck and jumps out of a second-floor window, according to trial testimony.

Patrick comes home to the gruesome scene and calls 911 .

January 26 : Clancy, partially paralyzed and unable to speak, writes on a piece of paper she is “horrified” and asks for an attorney, according to a hospital psychiatrist .

Late January and early February : Clancy tells her husband and a hospital chaplain she heard a persistent male voice directing her to kill her children and herself.

February 7 : From her hospital bed, Clancy is arraigned on murder charges and pleads not guilty .

September 15, 2023 : Clancy is indicted in Plymouth County on three counts of murder.

October 2024 : Patrick Clancy opens up to The New Yorker about the killings and expresses empathy for his wife. “I wasn’t married to a monster – I was married to someone who got sick,” he said.

January 2026 : Lindsay Clancy files a lawsuit against her medical providers in which she says she strangled her children after hearing a voice in her head. “I lost all control. My body started acting without any control on my part,” she wrote in the suit.

July 20, 2026 : Clancy’s murder trial begins with jury selection in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

July 26 : In opening statements , prosecutors say Clancy “acted intentionally, rationally and swiftly” when she killed her children, while the defense says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time.

Patrick Clancy, now divorced from Lindsay, testifies as the trial’s first witness.

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August 17 : The prosecution rests its case after calling over 70 witnesses, including Clancy’s family and friends, first responders, investigators and medical providers.

August 20 : More than 100 people wearing pink demonstrate outside of Plymouth Superior Court in support of Clancy and to raise awareness for maternal mental healthcare.

Women dressed in pink gathered outside the Plymouth, MA courthouse to show their support for Lindsay Clancy. They shared their reasons for showing up with CNN.

August 21 : Clancy’s defense rests its case after calling 10 witnesses, including psychiatric experts who said Clancy suffered from postpartum psychosis .

August 26 : The prosecution rests its rebuttal case after calling three mental health experts who said Clancy was not psychotic at the time of the killings.

August 27 : Prosecutors and the defense present closing arguments , and the jury begins deliberations.

September 1 : On its fourth day of deliberations, the jury reports it is “unable to come to a unanimous decision.” The judge directs the jury to continue deliberating.

Outside court, a 56-year-old woman is arrested for allegedly filming jurors leaving the courthouse. She later pleads not guilty.

September 3 : A jury note to the court indicates the jury is split 11 to 1 and says the holdout “refuses to listen to the law” on reasonable doubt, according to defense attorney Kevin Reddington . After a heated discussion with Reddington, Judge William Sullivan asks each juror individually whether they can follow his instructions on the law, and each says they can.

September 4 : Jury notes to the court indicate the jury cannot reach a unanimous verdict due to a single holdout juror . Clancy’s defense files an emergency appeal to further question the holdout juror, but the appeal is denied.

Judge Sullivan declares a mistrial due to the deadlocked jury, ending the trial without a clear resolution.

Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz says the prosecution will decide “shortly” on whether to retry the case . Reddington says the defense won the case and criticizes the holdout juror.

September 8, 2026 : Three jurors tell NBC10 Boston a single male juror “admitted he had reasonable doubt” but still declined to find her not guilty by reason of insanity.

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Lindsay Clancy’s holdout juror shows ongoing skepticism of the ‘insanity defense’

September 9 : Reddington expresses an openness to a plea deal in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

September 17 : The holdout juror issues a statement saying he believed the evidence pointed to a guilty verdict. “I didn’t have any doubts,” he says.

September 20 : Patrick Clancy and his new wife, Dr. Rachel Danis, speak to “ 60 Minutes ” about his late children, the trial and whether he feels anger at himself. “I think I did the best I could with what I had at the time, and I live with the outcome,” he says.

September 29 : At a court hearing, Clancy’s defense argues prosecutors did not provide sufficient evidence that she killed her children. “Where is the evidence that she did this?” Reddington said. The prosecution calls that argument “laughable.”

October 1: Judge Sullivan denied Clancy’s motion, finding prosecutors presented sufficient trial evidence for a reasonable juror to convict Clancy of murder.

Sullivan is still considering other defense motions. He set a follow-up hearing for November 2 .

CNN’s Nicki Brown and Lauren del Valle contributed to this report.

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林赛·克兰西的病情始于她与丈夫帕特里克在波士顿郊外一个安静的郊区生下第三个孩子几个月后，她开始出现失眠和焦虑症状。

几个月后，她的三个孩子全部去世，而林赛·克兰西因自杀未遂住院，并部分瘫痪。

这些事件之间发生的事情是克兰西三重谋杀案审判的核心，该案于 9 月初以陪审团意见不一和审判无效而告终。

检方指控她蓄意勒死了自己的孩子，而辩方则辩称她当时患有产后精神病，因此不应承担刑事责任。双方的辩论引发了人们对产妇精神健康、被称为“精神错乱辩护”的法律策略以及美国陪审团制度的质疑。

检方尚未透露是否计划对她进行重审。下次庭审定于11月2日举行。

CNN查阅了相关文件、采访记录和法庭诉讼程序，整理出了克兰西案件的时间线。以下内容将详细介绍克兰西日益恶化的精神状况、她杀害子女的经过、她的三重谋杀案审判以及她目前的法律困境。

2022年5月：克兰西是一名产科护士，她生下了第三个孩子。她和丈夫帕特里克以及他们的三个孩子科拉、道森和卡兰住在杜克斯伯里。

2022年9月：克兰西通过远程医疗与精神科医生詹妮弗·塔夫茨博士会面，讨论她的焦虑、抑郁和失眠问题。在接下来的四个月里，随着克兰西的精神状况恶化，她被开了大约十几种药物，并与其他几位医生会面。

2022年12月31日：克兰西因有自杀念头和伤害孩子的反复念头，被送入麦克莱恩医院（一家精神病治疗机构）。五天后，她出院参加女儿的生日派对。

2023 年 1 月 23 日：据塔夫茨大学称，克兰西告诉塔夫茨大学她“一切都好”，否认有任何自杀或杀人念头，也没有表现出任何精神病症状。

2023年1月24日：克兰西让帕特里克出门去CVS药店买晚餐和药品。据庭审证词，帕特里克离开后，她在地下室用健身带勒死了她的三个孩子，割伤了自己的手腕和脖子，然后从二楼的窗户跳下。

帕特里克回到家，看到这可怕的一幕，于是拨打了 911。

1 月 26 日：据医院精神科医生称，部分瘫痪且无法说话的克兰西在一张纸上写道，她感到“恐惧”，并要求聘请律师。

一月下旬和二月初：克兰西告诉她的丈夫和医院牧师，她听到一个持续不断的男性声音指示她杀死她的孩子和她自己。

2月7日：克兰西在病床上被提审，面临谋杀指控，她拒不不认罪。

2023 年 9 月 15 日：克兰西在普利茅斯县被控三项谋杀罪。

2024年10月：帕特里克·克兰西向《纽约客》敞开心扉，谈及这起谋杀案，并对妻子表示同情。“我娶的不是一个怪物——我娶的是一个生病的人，”他说。

2026年1月：林赛·克兰西对她的医疗机构提起诉讼，称她在听到脑海中一个声音后勒死了自己的孩子。“我完全失去了控制。我的身体开始不受控制地行动，”她在诉讼中写道。

2026 年 7 月 20 日：克兰西谋杀案审判在马萨诸塞州普利茅斯开始，首先进行陪审团遴选。

7 月 26 日：在开庭陈述中，检方称克兰西在杀害她的孩子时“是故意、理性且迅速地采取行动的”，而辩方则称她当时患有产后精神病。

帕特里克·克兰西（Patrick Clancy）现已与林赛离婚，作为审判的第一位证人出庭作证。

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8 月 17 日：检方在传唤了 70 多名证人后结束了举证，这些证人包括克兰西的家人和朋友、急救人员、调查人员和医疗服务提供者。

8 月 20 日：100 多名身穿粉红色衣服的人在普利茅斯高等法院外示威，以声援克兰西并提高人们对孕产妇心理健康保健的认识。

一群身着粉色服装的女性聚集在马萨诸塞州普利茅斯法院外，声援林赛·克兰西。她们向CNN讲述了自己到场的原因。

8 月 21 日：克兰西的辩护律师在传唤了 10 名证人后结束了辩护，其中包括精神病专家，他们表示克兰西患有产后精神病。

8 月 26 日：检方传唤了三名精神健康专家，他们表示克兰西在杀人时没有精神病，检方结束了反驳陈述。

8月27日：控辩双方进行结案陈词，陪审团开始审议。

9月1日：经过第四天的审议，陪审团报告称“无法达成一致意见”。法官指示陪审团继续审议。

庭外，一名56岁女子因涉嫌拍摄陪审员离开法院而被捕。她随后拒不不认罪。

9月3日：据辩护律师凯文·雷丁顿称，陪审团提交给法庭的一份记录显示，陪审团意见分歧为11比1，持反对意见的那位陪审员“拒绝听从关于合理怀疑的法律”。在与雷丁顿激烈争论后，法官威廉·沙利文分别询问每位陪审员是否能够遵守他关于法律的指示，每位陪审员都表示可以。

9月4日：陪审团提交给法庭的记录显示，由于一名陪审员拒绝表态，陪审团无法达成一致裁决。克兰西的辩护律师提出紧急上诉，要求进一步质询该名拒绝表态的陪审员，但上诉被驳回。

由于陪审团意见不一，法官苏利文宣布审判无效，审判在没有明确结果的情况下结束。

普利茅斯县地方检察官蒂莫西·克鲁兹表示，检方将“很快”决定是否重审此案。雷丁顿则表示辩方赢得了这场官司，并批评了那位持反对意见的陪审员。

2026 年 9 月 8 日：三名陪审员告诉 NBC10 波士顿，一名男性陪审员“承认他有合理的怀疑”，但仍然拒绝以精神错乱为由判她无罪。

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林赛·克兰西案中持反对意见的陪审员，持续对“精神错乱辩护”持怀疑态度。

9 月 9 日：雷丁顿在接受 CNN 安德森·库珀采访时表示愿意接受认罪协议。

9月17日：那位持反对意见的陪审员发表声明称，他相信证据指向有罪判决。“我没有任何怀疑，”他说。

9月20日：帕特里克·克兰西和他的新婚妻子瑞秋·丹尼斯博士接受《60分钟》节目采访，谈到了他已故的孩子、审判以及他是否对自己感到愤怒。“我认为我当时已经尽了全力，我接受这个结果，”他说。

9月29日：在法庭听证会上，克兰西的辩护律师辩称，检方没有提供足够的证据证明她杀害了自己的孩子。“她这么做的证据在哪里？”雷丁顿问道。检方则称这种说法“荒谬可笑”。

10 月 1 日：法官沙利文驳回了克兰西的动议，认为检方提供了足够的审判证据，足以让一名理智的陪审员认定克兰西犯有谋杀罪。

沙利文法官仍在审议辩方提出的其他动议。他将后续听证会定于11月2日举行。

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