Postpartum mom Lindsay Clancy on trial for murder brings court to a halt with sudden breakdown

Lindsay Clancy broke down successful tribunal connected Wednesday erstwhile a aesculapian examiner was testifying astir the autopsy of her 5-year-old daughter.

Not agelong aft aesculapian examiner Dr. Barbara Olson took the basal and began describing the autopsy of Cora Clancy, Lindsay Clancy, the 5-year-old's mother, broke down and began sobbing.

"I can’t bash this," Clancy said.

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Lindsay Clancy listens to grounds connected Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

Clancy faces first-degree execution charges successful transportation with the deaths of her 3 children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan.

Clancy, 32, took the lives of her 3 children earlier attempting termination connected Jan. 24, 2023.

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Clancy does not quality that she killed her children. Instead, her defence contends she was suffering from terrible postpartum slump brought connected by being overmedicated connected prescriptions.

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According to grounds and grounds presented successful court, 5 doctors prescribed Clancy with the pursuing medicine earlier she killed her 3 kids:

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• Zoloft
• Valium
• Trazodone
• Prozac
• Lamictal
• Seroquel
• Remeron
• Klonopin
• Buspirone
• Ativan
• Amitriptyline
• Ambien

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Prosecutors argued successful opening statements that Lindsay Clancy "deliberately and meticulously" killed her children and "acted intentionally, rationally, and swiftly to execute a precise circumstantial goal." (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

Following Clancy's breakdown, Judge William Sullivan ordered a recess and excused the assemblage from the courtroom.

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Two women could beryllium seen appearing to console Clancy portion she was crying wrong the courtroom.

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Defendant Lindsay Clancy connected Monday, Aug. 3, 2026, the 5th time of grounds astatine Plymouth Superior Court for her execution trial. Clancy is charged with 3 counts of execution successful transportation with the decease of her 3 young children successful 2023 astatine their Duxbury home. Clancy says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and is not criminally responsible. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)

Sullivan was besides forced to telephone a interruption connected Wednesday aft Clancy began crying portion a antithetic aesculapian examiner, Renee Stonebridge, gave grounds astir her introspection of immoderate assemblage parts of Clancy's 3 kids.