Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial continued Thursday with testimony from the medical examiner and the family pediatrician, among others.
Following testimony from Kimberley Springer, the medical examiner who performed an autopsy on 8-month-old Callan, Clancy was visibly shaken, breaking down into tears before the court was sent into recess.
Clancy had described feeling anxious and overwhelmed with motherhood, including her struggles to get her newborn to sleep and constant worries of his being sick. She also expressed concerns about going back to work as a labor and delivery nurse, not being able to breastfeed, and feeling disconnected from her children and her then-husband.
“I’m so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to find something physically wrong with me,” she wrote in a Nov. 18, 2022, entry.
Clancy’s defense says she was a loving mother who was overmastered by postpartum psychosis, a dangerous psychiatric condition that afflicts a small proportion of women after childbirth and affects their hold on reality.
After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial continued Thursday with testimony from the medical examiner and the family pediatrician, among others.
Following testimony from Kimberley Springer, the medical examiner who performed an autopsy on 8-month-old Callan, Clancy was visibly shaken, breaking down into tears before the court was sent into recess.
Clancy had described feeling anxious and overwhelmed with motherhood, including her struggles to get her newborn to sleep and constant worries of his being sick. She also expressed concerns about going back to work as a labor and delivery nurse, not being able to breastfeed, and feeling disconnected from her children and her then-husband.
“I’m so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to find something physically wrong with me,” she wrote in a Nov. 18, 2022, entry.
Clancy’s defense says she was a loving mother who was overmastered by postpartum psychosis, a dangerous psychiatric condition that afflicts a small proportion of women after childbirth and affects their hold on reality.
