The atmosphere inside the Plymouth, Mᴀssachusetts courtroom grew heavy on Friday as Lindsay Clancy sat trembling at the defense table, her body shaking with sobs she could no longer contain. The 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse covered her face with one hand, wiping tears and occasionally reaching for a tissue as emergency room doctors described in clinical detail the final, desperate attempts to revive her two young sons.

Just hours earlier, the 18 jurors and alternates had been taken by coach bus to the quiet Duxbury neighborhood where the tragedy unfolded more than three years ago. They were driven past the CVS pharmacy where Patrick Clancy had been sent to pick up children’s medication and the Plymouth restaurant where he ordered takeout. Most significantly, small groups of six were allowed inside the former family home — the very house where, according to prosecutors, Lindsay Clancy used elastic workout bands to strangle her three children on the evening of January 24, 2023, while her husband was out running those errands.

When court resumed, the medical testimony began. Dr. Mark Tenerowicz of Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth took the stand and described the moment three-year-old Dawson arrived. The boy was not breathing. He had no pulse. He showed no response. For roughly 40 minutes the doctor and his team worked on the toddler — performing continuous CPR, administering IV fluids, and injecting adrenaline in an attempt to restart his heart. “It did not look like his heart would ever start again,” Tenerowicz told the jury. Eventually, Dawson was declared ᴅᴇᴀᴅ.

A short time later, Dr. Benjamin Kaufman testified about the youngest child, eight-month-old Callan. When the infant was brought into the emergency room he was not breathing, though doctors managed to restore a heartbeat for approximately ten minutes. Still, Kaufman said, the baby never showed any signs of brain function. Callan was later flown to Boston Children’s Hospital, a facility better equipped for such a severe case. He did not survive.

As the doctors spoke, Lindsay Clancy’s quiet crying turned into visible, uncontrollable sobbing. She had already wept on previous days of the trial — when the children’s pajamas were displayed, when the exercise bands alleged to have been used in the killings were shown, and when a recording of her husband’s anguished 911 call filled the courtroom. On that call, Patrick Clancy can be heard shouting that she had killed the children.

The jury also heard from a Duxbury police officer who accompanied the sedated Clancy by helicopter to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston after her own suicide attempt that same night. She had cut her wrists and neck and thrown herself from a second-story bedroom window, an act that left her permanently paralyzed. Graphic pH๏τographs of her injuries — a neck brace, apparatus in her mouth, bloodied wounds — were displayed once more. Clancy sat largely still as those images appeared on the screen.

Prosecutors maintain that Lindsay Clancy deliberately sent her husband away so she could kill their children: five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan. The defense, led by attorney Kevin Reddington, will ask the jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity. They argue she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis, worsened by a complex combination of psychiatric medications prescribed by multiple doctors in the months leading up to the killings. Court records show she had been hospitalized twice for suicidal thoughts and was taking several medications at the time of the deaths.

Patrick Clancy, who has since remarried, has already given emotional testimony about the evening he returned home, found his wife lying injured in the backyard, and then discovered the three children unresponsive in the basement with bands around their necks. First responders have described the children’s grayish skin, blue lips, bloodsH๏τ eyes, and red marks on their necks. One veteran officer was visibly moved as he recounted the scene.

The trial, which began in late July 2026 after significant delays, is expected to continue for several more weeks. Jurors have now walked through the house where the children died, heard the medical efforts that failed to save them, and watched their mother break down as those final moments were described in open court.

Source: https://nypost.com/2026/07/31/us-news/lindsay-clancy-sobs-in-court-as-er-doc-recalls-desperate-efforts-to-save-sons-after-jury-takes-trip-to-murder-scene/