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Jury tours the crime scene where a mother allegedly murdered her 3 kids · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: The murder trial for Lindsay Clancy left the courtroom today.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of sitting and listening to testimony, the jury visited
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  Speaker 1: the scene of the crime.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't common, but it isn't rare to see a
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  Speaker 2: jury go to a scene in order to see and
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  Speaker 2: understand what the attorneys are arguing in terms of their case.
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  Speaker 1: Clancy stands accused of the unthinkable, the first degree murders
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  Speaker 1: of her three young children back in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: The defendant has been charged in three counts of murder.
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  Speaker 1: The former labor and delivery neurs has pleaded not guilty,
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  Speaker 1: her defense admitting that Clancy did kill her children, but
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  Speaker 1: they argue she is not to blame because she suffered
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  Speaker 1: from a rare medical condition postpartum psychosis.
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  Speaker 2: Jurse are brought to the former Clancy home today in
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  Speaker 2: order to get a better understanding of what it means
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  Speaker 2: for Lindsay Clancy to have been in the basement, strangle
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  Speaker 2: her children, come upstairs, cut herself, and then attempt to
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  Speaker 2: jump out of the second floor window. All of this
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  Speaker 2: will help the jury understand the arguments being made in
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  Speaker 2: the case.
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  Speaker 1: The juries were escorted by police traveling in a bus
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  Speaker 1: dark windows along the same journey Clancy's now ex husband
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  Speaker 1: took that tragic day before ending in the couple's former
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  Speaker 1: home in Duxbury, mass Cameras cannot show them on site,
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  Speaker 1: but the trip took a couple of hours. The visit
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  Speaker 1: to the home comes after Patrick Clancy wrapped up his
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  Speaker 1: emotional testimony earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I said what happened? And what was her response?
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  Speaker 2: She said, I tried to kill myself.
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  Speaker 3: Did you ask her anything else? I said, where are
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  Speaker 3: the kids? And what was her response? She said, they're
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  Speaker 3: in the basement.
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  Speaker 1: The prosecution maintains the mother of three planned the depths
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  Speaker 1: of her kids, sending Patrick out of the house to
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  Speaker 1: pick up dinner and run some errands so he couldn't interfere,
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  Speaker 1: a trip that left her alone with the kids for
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  Speaker 1: fifty four minutes. Prosecutors say Patrick even called to check in,
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  Speaker 1: and Lindsay did not indicate anything was wrong. But the
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  Speaker 1: defense says this is a case of severe mental illness
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  Speaker 1: left untreated and potentially over medicated.
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  Speaker 3: Did anyone ever tell you not to leave your kids
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  Speaker 3: alone with Lindsay? In January of twenty twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 3: did Lindsey ever tell you that she wanted to harm
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  Speaker 3: your children? Did she ever tell you she was going
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  Speaker 3: to kill your children?
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  Speaker 1: Patrick is a witness for both the prosecution and the defense.
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  Speaker 2: It's extremely rare to have one witness testify for both
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  Speaker 2: the prosecution and the defense. The prosecution focus on what
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  Speaker 2: he knew about the symptoms and red flags of Lindsay
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  Speaker 2: Clancy leading up to the killing of his three children.
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Clancy helped the defense by humanizing his ex wife
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  Speaker 2: to testify in a way that is positive of the defendant.
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  Speaker 1: Patrick testified in a phone called with Lindsay about a
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  Speaker 1: week after the incident, she mentioned hearing a voice.
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  Speaker 3: She said she heard a man's voice telling her that
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  Speaker 3: if she didn't do it now, should lose her chance,
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  Speaker 3: or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Another emotional moment in court this week when prosecutors showed
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  Speaker 1: the jury of the pajamas that children were wearing when
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  Speaker 1: they were killed and the elastic bands used to strangle them.
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  Speaker 1: Prosecutors say Clancy then use the knife to cut her
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  Speaker 1: wrist and neck and then threw herself out of the
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  Speaker 1: second floor window. Her injuries left her partially paralyzed. Patrick
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  Speaker 1: Clancy eventually divorced his wife in remarry, but months after
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  Speaker 1: the incident, he shocked many when he released a statement
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  Speaker 1: asking family, friends in the public to forgive Lindsey. Lindsey
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  Speaker 1: Clancy alleges that she had asked for help repeatedly. In
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  Speaker 1: a separate civil malpractice lawsuit, she alleges her postpartum depression
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  Speaker 1: was improperly treated by multiple medical providers, citing she went
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  Speaker 1: to emergency rooms, she called crisis hotlines, She admitted herself
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  Speaker 1: to hospitals. She took the medications prescribed to her. She
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  Speaker 1: communicated her worsting symptoms to providers. She told them the
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  Speaker 1: medications were making her worse, and still the medical system
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  Speaker 1: failed her completely.
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  Speaker 4: Postpartum psychosis is very, very uncommon. It is a very
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  Speaker 4: rare condition. It happens in about one to two out
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  Speaker 4: of one thousand berths. The person who's experiencing it may
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  Speaker 4: not be able to identify that something's wrong because post
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  Speaker 4: part of psychosis is really a departure from reality.
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  Speaker 1: Next week, the jury will be back in the courtroom.
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  Speaker 1: It's unclear whether Lindsay Clancy will take the stand in
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  Speaker 1: her own defense. The trial is expected to last six
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  Speaker 1: to eight weeks. If you are a loved one, are
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  Speaker 1: struggling with thoughts of self harm or other mental health
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  Speaker 1: CRISS reach out to the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
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  Speaker 1: by dialing or texting nine eight eight will of course
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  Speaker 1: continue to follow this case as it cresses