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Lindsay Clancy is facing charges after allegedly killing her three children at the family’s home in Duxbury this January

A Massachusetts woman accused of killing her three children before trying to end her own life was indicted by a grand jury Friday, moving her case to superior court. Lindsay Clancy, 32, was indicted on charges of murder and strangulation by a Plymouth County grand jury in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan in January, the Plymouth…

The driver was identified as 49-year old Jason Haen of Pembroke.

One man is dead after a pickup truck crashed into a tree in Duxbury, Massachusetts, early Saturday morning. Duxbury police say they responded to a report of a car crash on North St. at around 1:15 a.m. When they arrived, they found a Ford F-150 heavily damaged against a tree, according to authorities. Police say the driver was ejected from…

A police officer in Duxbury, Massachusetts, was indicted Friday after allegedly falsified a police report and intimidated a witness. The office of Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz says 51-year-old Steven Amado of Plymouth is facing charges of misleading a police officer, intimidation of a police officer and false crime report. Amado, a 24-year veteran of the Duxbury Police Department,…

The alleged murder of three young children by a Duxbury mother experiencing postpartum depression and potentially postpartum psychosis has sparked “huge momentum” on Beacon Hill to pass legislation protecting defendants who commit crimes due to their mood disorders, according to the Senate sponsor of a newly refiled proposal. Petitions from Rep. Jim O’Day and Sen. Joan Lovely (HD 4280 /…

Police in Duxbury, Massachusetts, responded to an unusual call this weekend for a car in the ocean off of Duxbury Beach.

The visit comes after a difficult call for the department. First responders in Duxbury have received counseling for what they saw at a local home where three children were killed, allegedly by their mother, who was hospitalized for a suicide attempt.

The Duxbury Fire Department was seen at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, but it wasn’t for an emergency call.

Court documents released this week included nearly 40 letters from friends and family members supporting Lindsay Clancy, the Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother accused of killing her three young children in what her lawyer is saying was the result of being overmedicated for postpartum depression. Lindsay Clancy is accused of tying exercise rope around each of her three children’s necks for several…

Prosecutors say that Lindsay Clancy never mentioned ever hearing voices, until just days ago when she called her husband from her hospital room. “She killed the kids because she heard a voice and had, quote, ‘a moment of psychosis,’” Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague of Plymouth County said of the phone call at Clancy’s arraignment. Prosecutors also say Clancy...

The murder cases against Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing her three children in Duxbury, are putting mental health in the spotlight.

As all eyes remain on the case of a mother accused of killing her children in Duxbury, Massachusetts, questions are being raised about whether or not someone’s mental health can be a legal excuse for criminal behavior. During her arraignment on Tuesday, both sides agreed Lindsay Clancy was dealing with mental health issues leading up to the killings. She...

Lindsay Clancy is accused of fatally strangling her three children in their Duxbury home.

The 32-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother faced a judge for the first time during the arraignment, joining the court hearing virtually from a hospital bed, where she was seen masked and with what appeared to be some sort of neck brace. Her lawyer said she is in dire medical condition and isn’t expected to regain the function in her legs.

[Editor’s note: Some readers may find the information in the story below disturbing.] During a lengthy and graphic arraignment on Tuesday, prosecutors said that Lindsay Clancy planned the murders of her children, while her defense attorney chalked the tragedy up to overmedication and mental illness. The 32-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother faced a judge for the first time during the arraignment,...

Lindsay Clancy is accused of tying exercise rope around each of her three children’s necks for several minutes, then cutting herself and jumping out a window while her husband was running a pair of errands she’d arranged — all after seeing how long he would be out of the home.

Prosecutors argued that Lindsay Clancy planned the murders of her three young children.

Lindsay Clancy appeared virtually in court after allegedly killing her three young children in their Duxbury home.

Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother charged in the killings of her three children in Duxbury last month, appeared in court from her hospital bed on Tuesday, where prosecutors