Massachusetts mom Lindsay Clancy showed “extreme atrocity and cruelty” when she killed her three kids with exercise bands prosecutors argued, Thursday.
Evidence from the scene — including the fact that her husband Patrick Clancy was able to quickly remove the bands from his children’s throats after finding them dead at their Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023 suggests that the killings were savage and deliberate, according to prosecutors.
Patrick was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher when he finally discovered Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month old Callan in the basement – and as police were headed down the stairs – crying, “She killed the kids!” according to court papers from last week.
Patrick found the children, each with an exercise band around their necks, but by the time first responders got to the basement, “each band [was] lying next to each child,” the filing alleges.
“The brief time between finding each child and the fact that Mr. Clancy was able to remove each band so quickly” suggested the theory that Lindsay may have tied the bands in a knot and walked away couldn’t be true, prosecutors claimed.
Instead, the evidence suggested “she manually pulled the bands around each child’s neck until they died,” showing “the deliberateness of her acts and the extreme atrocity and cruelty of her acts,” the court papers alleged.
Prosecutors revealed the evidence as they sought for Patrick’s 911 call to be admitted into Lindsay’s July trial, claiming it’s a critical piece of evidence in helping to prove their case, Court TV first reported.
A lawyer for Lindsay, a 35-year-old former nurse, has said they don’t plan to dispute that she carried out the horrific slayings but rather will argue she was overmedicated and suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time.
She is planning to ask a jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity.
Both Lindsay and Patrick have filed lawsuits against the doctors who were treating Lindsay claiming they failed to properly diagnose her and gave her the wrong treatments.
