The Lindsey Clancy Case: A Timeline of a Massachusetts Nurse Accused of Killing Three Children

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The day Lindsey Clancy allegedly killed three of her children and paralyzed herself in a suicide attempt began when she was building a snowman with her 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter.

It happened outside Clancy’s home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on the morning of Jan. 24, prosecutors said Tuesday during the arraignment in Plymouth County District Court.

At 4:02 p.m., the 32-year-old nurse searched her phone for information about children’s MiraLAX and takeaway restaurants, according to prosecutors, who claimed it was the start of a bloody plot to kill her children.

By 6:11 p.m., her husband, Patrick Clancy, was on the 911 phone and screaming for help when he found his wife in the backyard after she jumped out of their bedroom window.

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Lindsey and Patrick Clancy with two of their three children in this undated photo. (Lindsey Marie Clancy/Facebook)

He was still on the phone with emergency personnel when he screamed at the discovery of his children with exercise ropes around their necks, prosecutors said.

Prosecutors detailed what happened in the two-plus hours that began with Lindsey’s Internet search and ended with Patrick’s 54-minute drive from their home to CVS, to the restaurant, and back.

16:02 and 16:13 Internet search

Lindsey Clancy searched her phone for information about children’s MiraLAX, which is a laxative, and then searched for “ThreeV takeaway,” prosecutors said.

“Immediately afterward, she used Apple Maps on her phone to determine how long it would take someone to drive from her home in Duxbury to the ThreeV restaurant in Plymouth, so she knew how long someone would be away if they did. this assignment,” Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague said.

Lindsey Clancy has three children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 7-month-old Callan. (Lindsey Marie Clancy/Facebook)

16:47 call to CVS

Clancy allegedly browsed the CVS website and then called a Kingston pharmacy and spoke to a manager about MiraLAX, prosecutors said.

“According to the CVS manager, her voice was not slurred or disturbed in any way,” Sprague said. “She had no problem understanding the defendant and it was a perfectly normal conversation.”

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Clancy’s husband was working from home in his basement office, and she allegedly asked him to go to CVS and pick up a takeaway from ThreeV’s restaurant in a message saying, “I didn’t cook anything. It’s been a long day,” prosecutors said. .

He is obliged.

At 5:06 pm he asked her what she wanted to eat and she answered. Once they had collected their orders, she called the restaurant at 5:10 pm.

Lindsey Clancy with two of her three children in this undated photograph. (Lindsey Marie Clancy/Facebook)

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Patrick left the house at 5:15 pm and was seen on surveillance footage from the Kingston CVS at 5:32 pm.

He called Lindsey at 5:33 p.m., but she did not answer, prosecutors said.

She called back in a minute, and they talked for 14 seconds about what medicine to get. “It was a perfectly normal call,” Sprague said.

“Though he did mention that she seemed to be busy with something,” she added.

Patrick was seen leaving CVS at 17:37.

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Lindsey Clancy, a Massachusetts mother accused of killing her children, is arraigned from her hospital bed on February 7, 2023. (Plymouth District Court)

17:54 takeaway food

CCTV footage shows Patrick picking up food during this time and he is in and out “within a minute”.

“When he got home, the first thing he noticed was silence,” Sprague said. “He did not see or hear the defendant or the children.”

18:09 Patrick calls Lindsey.

Due to the unusual silence, Patrick called Lindsey, but there was no answer. According to prosecutors, he searched her house and found that the door to their bedroom was locked.

He was able to get inside and saw blood on the floor in front of the mirror and the open window.

He ran down the stairs to the backyard, where he found his wife.

18:11 Call to 911

Patrick called 911 and said that there were wounds on his wife’s wrist and neck, but they were dried up, and she was conscious but injured.

On the phone, emergency personnel overheard Patrick asking Lindsey, “What did you do?”

She replied: “I tried to kill myself and jump out of the window,” Sprague said.

He was still on the phone when he asked Lindsey where the kids were.

“He later told the police that she said, ‘In the basement,’” Sprague said.

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Patrick was still on the phone with emergency dispatchers when he fled to the basement and found his three children with exercise cords around their necks, prosecutors said.

“You can hear him screaming in agony, in shock when he found his children,” Sprague said. “His scream seemed to get louder and more painful as time went on… He removed the bandages and begged them to breathe.”

Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3, died in the hospital. Seven-month-old Callan lived another three days before his death.

Lindsey Clancy with her youngest child Callan, who was 7 months old when he died. (Lindsey Marie Clancy/Facebook)

January 27

Lindsey woke up in the hospital but was unable to speak, prosecutors said. The first thing she wrote on the board was, “I need a lawyer,” Sprague said.

28 January

In a statement on his GoFundMe page, Patrick said he forgave his wife and asked others to do the same.

“The real Lindsey showed generous love and care to everyone – me, our children, family, friends and her patients,” he wrote. “The very fibers of her soul are full of love. All I wish for her right now is for her to find peace somehow.”

February 7

Lindsey appeared from her hospital bed via Zoom in Plymouth County Circuit Court for her arraignment when she was charged with two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation, and assault and battery with a deadly weapon.

Wareham Fire Chief John Kelly attends a candlelight vigil in memory of 5-year-old Cora Clancy and 3-year-old Dawson Clancy as the community prays and supports the Clancy family on January 26, 2023. (Wareham Fire Department)

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She was declared innocent on all counts on her behalf, and the judge did not set bail.

Lindsey is paralyzed from the waist down, according to her lawyer Kevin Reddington, who said she has a history of struggling with her mental health and taking too many medications, turning her into a “zombie”.

“It’s a serious issue between postpartum depression and possibly postpartum psychosis that is largely ignored,” Reddington added, calling it a “tragic” case and an example of an “imperfect” case. mental health system.

However, prosecutors said that Clancy was never diagnosed with postpartum depression.

“The defendant did not take advantage of the situation when her husband left home that night. She created it,” Sprague said.