Lindsay Clancy

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.