Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of murdering her three young children before attempting suicide, allegedly researched “methods of killing” before their deaths, authorities said in recently unsealed court documents.
Clancy, 33, faces three counts each of murder and strangulation in the January slayings of her children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 7-month-old Callan, after she was indicted by a Plymouth County grand jury in September, PEOPLE previously reported .
Prosecutors allege that Clancy strangled each of them to death with an exercise band at the family’s Duxbury, Mass., home on the evening of Jan. 24 while her husband, Patrick Clancy, went out to run a few errands.
Recently unsealed court documents obtained by WCVB-TV, MassLive and The Boston Globeinclude search warrants and accompanying affidavits detailing the evidence found at the former nurse’s home.
Investigators reportedly collected Clancy’s pink iPhone, electronic tablets, laptops, exercise bands, a silver knife and four bottles of prescription medication, among other items. Investigators also took blood and urine samples from Clancy along with swabs from under her fingernails.
“Investigators are also aware that Ms Clancy used her mobile phone and her diary to document her mental state and her feelings towards her children, in addition to keeping track of her medication and researching methods of killing, meaning that [it] it is reasonable to conclude that Ms. Clancy would have used all formats and tools available to her, including a tablet,” the affidavit states, per The Boston Globe.
The nearly 300 pages of documents did not reveal details of the alleged searches.
At Clancy’s first trial in February, her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, argued that she was heavily medicated and inadequately treated for postpartum mental illness she allegedly suffered in the months leading up to the suspected murders, and therefore could not be held accountable for her alleged crimes. works.
Mass. Mother accused of murdering 3 children was predicated on prescription drugs, lawyer says
Reddington said earlier The Boston Globe that his client was prescribed medication for mood disorders, anxiety and psychosis.
According to the recently unsealed documents he cites The Boston GlobeClancy’s husband, Patrick, said she was prescribed Zoloft, Valium, Trazodone, Ativan, Klonopin, Prozac and Seroquel and was taking at least four prescriptions a day.
After the alleged murders, Clancy attempted suicide by locking herself in a bedroom, slitting her own wrists and jumping out a window, according to prosecutors. Prosecutors said Patrick returned home to find his wife critically injured in the backyard.
Lindsay Clancy and family. Lindsay Marie Clancy Facebook
Inside the home, he found his three children in the basement with exercise bands wrapped around their necks, prosecutors said.
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Cora and Dawson were taken to a hospital that day and pronounced dead, prosecutors said, but Callan was treated at Boston Children’s Hospital for several days before succumbing to his injuries.
Clancy has been hospitalized since the incident and is said to have been paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the fall.
Prosecutors had previously alleged that Clancy sent Patrick on an errand to pick up dinner and a prescription on the night of the murders, showing “deliberate premeditation and extreme heinousness and cruelty.”
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Cora, Dawson and Callan Clancy.
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In the weeks leading up to the alleged murders, Clancy’s defense attorney said she felt detached and emotionless from her children and was “unable to express happiness, sadness or crying.”
Weeks before the death of her three children, Massachusetts. Mum Lindsay Clancy said: ‘I wish I could feel something’
Reddington previously told the court: “Until the very end when she was so bad that [Clancy] she voluntarily turned herself in at the beginning of January” to a Boston psychiatric hospital, where she reportedly spent five days, before returning home.
In a GoFundMe created for the family shortly after the death, Patrick wrote about his three children and asked the public to forgive his wife.
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“The shock and pain are excruciating and unrelenting. I keep reminding myself of them and with what little sleep I manage, I keep dreaming of them,” Patrick wrote on January 28. “Cora, Dawson and Callan were the essence of my life and I’m completely lost without them.”
Clancy was on leave from her job as a delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital at the time of the murders.
According to The Boston GlobeClancy was expected to be taken Thursday to Tewksbury Hospital, where she was receiving mental health treatment. She pleaded not guilty during her first trial in February.
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