Earlier Friday afternoon, psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack, a prosecution reʙuттal witness, testified about what Lindsay Clancy told him a male voice said to her before she killed her kids.

“The voice said, ‘You should kill the kids. This is your last chance so you can kill yourself,’” Mack told the 18-person jury.

Closing arguments are expected to get underway early next week.

The jury was sent home for the weekend during the testimony of psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack.

He is expected back on the stand Monday morning around 9 a.m.

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington is now grilling psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack about his credentials and expertise.

“Where in [your CV] does it say that you ever came within breathing distance of a pregnant woman…?” Reddington said.

“I remember being at the Brigham [and Women’s Hospital in Boston] as a resident … that was 2001,” Mack responded.

“I see myself as a generalist who has a couple areas of focus,” Mack said, noting he eventually went into working in pediatrics.

Mack said in his entire career he’d worked with “roughly 10” women who had experienced the rare phenomenon of postpartum psychosis.

Lindsay Clancy “methodically” killed her kids and tried to kill herself, showing she had the mental capacity of knowing what she did was wrong, a psychiatrist testified during prosecutors’ reʙuттal.

“She was engaging in activity methodically, which highlights to me that there was an ability to conform behavior for living in a household,” Dr. Avram Mack said of Clancy’s activities on the day of the murders.

“The deaths were done methodically, one by one, in a way that was organized and that was intended to achieve a particular goal,” Mack said.

Clancy was also methodical and organized when she attempted to commit suicide, the psychiatrist said.

“She retained the capacity that is required for having criminal responsibility for these actions,” he said.

The jury is back from the lunch break, and prosecutor Shanan Buckingham is continuing her questioning of forensic psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack, a witness for the prosecution.

She was disturbingly methodical about it, tying an exercise band to a door in the basement of the family home and strangling each of her babies, Cora, then 5, Dawson, then three, and Callan, then just seven months, one at a time.

How did she not stop, when they must have protested with fear and incomprehension?

And then, even more disturbingly, left her three children — her youngest son not yet ᴅᴇᴀᴅ — alone in the last moments of their desperately short lives, as she went upstairs to try and take her own life.

The only explanation is that she is a monster, of course.

Or perhaps it isn’t.

Judge William Sullivan just dismissed the jury for lunch as prosecutor Shanan Buckingham was questioning Dr. Avram Mack, a forensic psychiatrist for the prosecution.

The jury is due back around 2 p.m.

Dr. Avram Mack, a forensic psychiatrist testifying for prosecutors, said he believes Lindsay Clancy had a major depressive episode in the four months leading up to when she strangled her three kids.

He said she also had anxiety disorder but he didn’t believe she suffered from psychosis or a manic or hypomanic episode before the murders.

Clancy’s defense claims she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis and heard a voice telling her to kill her children and commit suicide.

Dr. Avram Mack, a forensic psychiatrist testifying for prosecutors, is telling the jury about Lindsay Clancy’s miserable existence at the hospital where she is currently being held.

Mack evaluated Clancy on April 10 and April 11, 2026 at Tewksbury Hospital.

He said Clancy “wasn’t interested in the food there,” and “wasn’t very interested in her own hygiene and grooming,” Mack told the jury.

“Showering is embarrᴀssing,” the psychiatrist explained, noting she needed help to shower because she’s paraplegic.

“She described feeling depressed. She described feeling miserable, not wanting to be alive,” Mack said.

He said the stressors Clancy feels are from “the remorse and sadness of the events that this case is about, her separation or estrangement from her then-husband, her being separated from the world, her physical injury.”

Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham called the first reʙuттal witness in the state’s case against Lindsay Clancy, Dr. Avram Mack, a forensic psychiatrist.

Lindsay Clancy’s defense case has wrapped up after her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, called 10 witnesses.

“Lindsay Clancy rests her case,” Reddington said.

Prosecutors are now putting on a reʙuттal case.

Lindsay Clancy had a warped — but altruistic — reason for killing daughter Cora and sons Dawson and Callan, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick said Friday.

Resnick testified that she had a distorted belief that if she killed herself, her children’s lives would be so awful without her that she should kill them too.

“In her mind, she believed she would be doing her children a favor by having them go to heaven with her rather than remain on Earth without her doing the mothering.

“Her mind was distorted like that.”

Clancy “believed her children would be miserable. And she couldn’t imagine them continuing to exist and have a decent life without her being there as a mother,” Resnick said.

Forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick, testifying Friday for Lindsay Clancy’s defense, has worked on a slew of other major US cases.

Resnick worked for prosecutors on the cases of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Aurora, Colorado movie theater shooter James Holmes, and Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, he told the jury.

He also testified in Andrea Yates’ defense at both of the killer Texas mom’s trials in the early aughts, in which she was accused of drowning her five kids.

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick told the jury that Lindsay Clancy was “clearly psycH๏τic” the day she strangled her three kids.

Resnick said Clancy had bipolar disorder with severe depression and a postpartum onset at the time she strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, with exercise bands in the basement of their Duxbury, Mᴀss., home.

“She was clearly psycH๏τic on that day,” Resnick said.

He said that on Jan. 24, 2023, Clancy heard a “command voice” telling her to carry out the heinous acts.

“She had what is known as a ‘delusion of influence,’ ” Resnick told jurors Friday.

“Not only did she hear a command but she felt her body was taken over by an external force where she was in a dream state and did not have control of her own body.

“It was almost like she was a puppet and someone else was pulling the strings.”

Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick was the first witness testify Friday.

He’s appearing over a video feed that has a lag and which has frozen a few times.

The judge called a short break to see if the technical difficulties could be fixed.

Resnick is a defense witness who worked with Lindsay Clancy. The doctor was also a key witness in the Andrea Yates case after she killed her five children in Texas in 2001.

In February 2023, only two weeks after Clancy killed Cora, Dawson and baby Callan, Yates’ husband and the father of the five children she drowned in their bathtub, said Clancy should not go to jail — and urged people not to judge the father, Patrick Clancy.

Testimony could wrap up Friday at Lindsay Clancy’s high-profile murder trial following four weeks of testimony and roughly 80 total witnesses from the prosecution and the defense.

Yesterday was a short day of trial with testimony from just one witness, a chaplain who has visited with Clancy more than 200 times in the years since she strangled her three kids — and to whom Clancy said “I’m so glad my children are safe,” a week after she killed them, Chaplain Sheila Cavanaugh told jurors Thursday.

Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, is expected to call one more witness, and the prosecution is slated to call three more reʙuттal witnesses.

Closing arguments are tentatively slated for either Monday or Tuesday.

Lindsay Clancy’s supporters — mostly women, but not all — stood in line for a seat in the court gallery at her murder trial Friday, as the defense is expected to wrap up its case.

At least 100 “Pink Ladies” rallied outside the Plymouth County Superior Courthouse in Plymouth, Mᴀss., on Thursday, for a planned vigil meant to encourage the mom of three, who tragically strangled them all while suffering from a slew of mental illnesses, including postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder that her doctors failed to properly diagnose and treat, according to the defense.