Why Lindsay Clancy's Mother Was the First Defense Witness

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · Aug 18, 2026 · 28m

After fourteen days and more than seventy witnesses, the prosecution rested Monday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court. The same afternoon, the defense called its first witness. It was Lindsay's mother.

Lindsay Clancy is charged with three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of her three children on January 24, 2023. Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old. The defense entered an insanity plea. Despite months of escalating symptoms, Lindsay was never formally diagnosed with postpartum psychosis. That diagnosis is now the center of the…