In the months before Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and tried to take her own life, she was desperate for help — she saw psychiatrists, called a suicide hotline and went to the emergency room and was turned away from inpatient treatment. She was put on 13 medications over four months as providers sought to treat her ongoing symptoms and adverse reactions to the medications.
\n\nClancy, 36, is accused of murdering her three children — Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months — on Jan. 24, 2023, before she threw herself out her bedroom window in a failed suicide attempt.
\n\nProsecutors spent nearly six weeks presenting their case to jurors in the murder trial. They called 70 witnesses in an attempt to show that the mother planned the deaths, driving her husband from home so she could carry out the acts.
\n\nHer defense attorneys have said that Clancy was in the grips of postpartum psychosis, a rare condition that can alter new mothers’ sense of reality and is considered a psychiatric emergency. Her condition, they told jurors, compelled her to act on the voices in her head that were telling her to kill her three children and herself.
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