Kevin Reddington
Mistrial is declared in Lindsay Clancy child killings case after jury deadlocks
PLYMOUTH, Mass. | A judge declared a mistrial in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial on Friday after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict on whether she was criminally responsible for killing her three young children. The mistrial, on the seventh day of deliberations, leaves the case unresolved and allows prosecutors to take […]
Jury in Lindsay Clancy trial tells judge for a second time that it can’t agree on a verdict
PLYMOUTH, Mass. | Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial said for a second time they were unable to reach a verdict on whether she is criminally responsible for killing her three children, but the judge on Wednesday told them to keep trying. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, doesn’t deny strangling her three […]
Lindsay Clancy trial jury deliberates for fifth day after telling judge they were deadlocked
PLYMOUTH, Mass. | Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial resumed deliberations Wednesday, a day after telling the judge they couldn’t agree on whether the Massachusetts mother was criminally responsible for killing her three children. After court resumed Wednesday morning, Judge William Sullivan called the lawyers to the bench. Each of the 12 jurors and […]
Closing arguments underway in Lindsay Clancy’s trial in the killings of her 3 children
PLYMOUTH, Mass. | Lindsay Clancy was in a deep psychosis when she strangled her three children in their Massachusetts home, her lawyer said Thursday, telling jurors that she had been a loving mother before her mental health spiraled. “Because of the damned medicine and the lousy medical care that she got,” attorney Kevin Reddington said […]
The last few witnesses in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are set to testify
After nearly a month of testimony, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are hearing Tuesday from the final witnesses in a case that has largely been about her mental state when she strangled her three young children. Testimony resumed from a forensic psychologist hired by prosecutors to evaluate Clancy’s psychiatric history and assess the […]
‘She killed the kids!’ 911 call from Lindsay Clancy’s husband brings tears to the courtroom
PLYMOUTH, Mass. | Lindsay Clancy sobbed in court Wednesday as jurors listened to the anguished 911 call her then-husband made after returning from an errand to find she’d strangled their three children in their Massachusetts home. On the roughly 7-minute recording, Patrick Clancy can be heard speaking with his wife upon finding her badly injured […]
Lindsay Clancy goes on trial over whether postpartum psychosis drove her to kill her 3 children
PLYMOUTH, Mass. | In the months after the birth of her third child, Lindsay Clancy ‘s mental health collapsed. Manic, unable to sleep and stricken with thoughts of harming herself, she sought care from experts in postpregnancy mood disorders, was put on multiple psychiatric medications, and when nothing worked, checked in to a psychiatric hospital. […]
Trial begins for Massachusetts mom who says postpartum issues led her to kill 3 children
Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children while undergoing medical treatment for psychiatric problems that developed after she gave birth. The trial of Lindsay Clancy, which could take several weeks, is expected to explore the complicated and rare phenomenon of postpartum psychosis, which afflicts a very […]
Former Olympian pleads not guilty in Reflecting Pool damage case after Trump alleged vandalism
WASHINGTON | A former Olympic canoe racer pleaded not guilty on Thursday to deliberately damaging the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a politically charged case that his defense attorneys and other Trump administration critics have derided as an abuse of prosecutorial power. David Hearn, who competed in three Summer Olympics, entered the plea through […]