‘She killed the kids!’ Police call from Lindsay Clancy’s husband brings tears to courtroom
The ex-US nurse is accused of strangling her three children, in a murder trial that has centred on her mental state after childbirth
Lindsay Clancy sobbed in court on Wednesday as jurors listened to the anguished emergency call her then-husband made after returning from an errand to find she had strangled their three children in their Massachusetts home.
On the roughly seven-minute recording, Patrick Clancy can be heard speaking with his wife upon finding her badly injured and bleeding in their yard, after she jumped from the home’s second-storey window.
“Look at me,” he says. “Say my name.”
He then tells the dispatcher he is going to check on the children. Moments later, he howls and cries after finding them in the basement. The confused dispatcher repeatedly asks what happened.
“She killed the kids!” he yells.
Three years after their deaths, the murder trial has centred on Lindsay Clancy’s mental state at the time. Her lawyers will seek to prove she had post-pregnancy psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth.