Before Lindsay Clancy allegedly killed her three children, she had been having “one of her best days” after a long struggle with anxiety, her husband told officials.
After his children were strangled Jan. 24 at the family’s Massachusetts home, Patrick Clancy told police that his wife had been “smiling” and “happy” earlier in the day, prosecutors said Tuesday in court.
Lindsay Clancy has been charged in their deaths and was arraigned Tuesday in Plymouth District Court. She is hospitalized following a suicide attempt and appeared at the court hearing via a video link.
On the morning of the killings, the mother of three had taken 5-year-old daughter Cora to the pediatrician for an appointment, where medical staff noticed nothing out of the ordinary about Lindsay Clancy’s behavior, Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague said in court. After returning home, she built a snowman with Cora and 3-year-old Dawson, texting photos to her mother and husband, Sprague said.
But when Patrick Clancy left the house at his wife’s request to pick up children’s medicine and food, the day took a horrifying turn.
He returned home to find his wife laying in the backyard after attempting suicide, Sprague said. A 911 call captured Patrick Clancy “screaming in agony and shock” upon finding the couple’s three young children strangled with exercise bands in the basement, the prosecutor said.
Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead at a hospital that evening, and 8-month-old Callan died at the hospital three days later.
Lindsay Clancy, 32, is charged with two counts of murder and three counts of suffocation or strangulation. A plea of not guilty was entered on her behalf Tuesday.
Prosecutors Tuesday requested she be held without bail. They rejected claims from her attorney that the mother was a “zombie” who had been overmedicated with anti-depressants and other psychiatric drugs.
“She had to strangle each of them … and then make sure the bands were…
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