Defense Rests In Duxbury Mom Lindsay Clancy Triple Murder Trial: Reports

The Massachusetts mom did not take the stand at the trial where she stood accused of strangling her three young children to death.

By Joseph Hosey, Patch Staff

Aug 21, 2026 2:10 PM EDT | Updated Aug 21, 2026 2:36 PM EDT

The defense rested Friday in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder case, according to reports. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

PLYMOUTH, MA — The defense rested Friday in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder case, according to reports.

The defense rested Friday in the triple-murder trial of Lindsay Clancy after calling 10 witnesses who testified about her mental health conditions and her efforts to seek treatment in the months before she fatally strangled her three children, according to a CNN story that noted, "Clancy did not take the stand."

"Clancy's attorney, Kevin Reddington, called 10 witnesses to testify about her mental state before she killed her three children in 2023," WBUR reported. "Reddington is defending his client with what's known as the insanity defense, asking jurors to find Clancy not criminally responsible for the killings because she was in the throes of postpartum psychosis at the time."

Clancy, 35, is charged with the January 2023 murders of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy.

"Prosecutors have said that in January 2023, Clancy intentionally strangled the three children with fitness bands in their Massachusetts home before jumping out of a second-floor window," the BBC reported. "Clancy, now 36, was paralysed by the jump and has attended the trial in a wheelchair."

Before resting his case, Reddington called forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick to the stand, according to WCVB.

"At the time of the crime on Jan. 24, 2023, Miss Clancy was frankly psychotic," Resnick said in the WCVB story. "She was clearly psychotic on that day."