Lindsay Clancy told a long-time friend she was experiencing “dark thoughts” in the days before the deaths of her three children, a murder trial has heard.
Clancy, 35, has pleaded not guilty to three murder charges over the deaths of her daughter Cora, five, son Dawson, three, and eight-month-old son Callan. The children died at the family’s home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on January 24, 2023.
Her defence lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and extreme mental illness. He has also said that Clancy attempted to take her own life after allegedly strangling the children.
Lindsay Clancy has been accused of murdering her three children (Credit: CBS News / YouTube)
Friend recalls hopeful conversation with Lindsay Clancy
According to ABC News, Amy Bevins told jurors on Thursday that she had been friends with Clancy for 29 years and communicated with her shortly before the deaths.
Bevins said Clancy had discussed the effect of medication on her mental health.
“She had shared that she had been taking a medication that caused her to have some dark thoughts, but that she was going to, or had been weaning, like tapering off that medication,” Bevins testified.
The witness said there was also a sense of hope in the conversation, as Clancy believed she might begin feeling better while reducing the medication.
Lindsay Clancy’s friend said she was experiencing “dark thoughts” in the days before the deaths of her three children (Credit: CBS News / YouTube)
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