Eleven Witnesses Against Lindsay Clancy Kept Saying THIS

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
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**Tony Brueski** (0:06)
All right. Another look inside the trial of Lindsay Clancy and where things are sitting as we are wrapping up. This is our full, complete week number two, I believe, in the case. Your thoughts are welcome in the comments section on Substack and YouTube as we work our way through this. A Massachusetts State Police Detective Sergeant, he gave two answers on August 6 that may follow this case all the way to the verdict. Defense Attorney Kevin Reddington asked Sergeant Andrew Caccino whether investigators searched everything to find evidence that Lindsay Clancy abused her children. Did she? Caccino said, yeah, he looked, looked everywhere. Reddington told him, he found nothing. And Caccino agreed. He gave those answers as a witness for the prosecution. Caccino is the case detective assigned to the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office. One of the investigators who built the prosecution from the first night. Day eight in Plymouth Superior Court put 11 witnesses on the stand. What they proved and which side they proved it for is the question this trial now kind of has to answer. Because as we're looking more and more at this trial day after day and prosecution bringing witness after witness to the stand.
If you're objectively watching this, I would say even more so if you're not on this side of Lindsay Clancy and mental health, you might be going, why do they seem to be in Lindsay Clancy's corner?
Lindsay Clancy is 35, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. She's charged with first degree murder and the deaths of her three children at the family home in Duxbury on January 4th of 23 Cora was five Dawson, three Callan, only eight months old. She has admitted killing them. The lawyers argue she isn't criminally responsible because she was in the grip of what's known as postpartum psychosis, a rare, very rare condition where a mother loses contact with reality after childbirth. One in a thousand. Prosecutors told the jury an opening statement, said she was controlling and manipulative, a woman who wanted to escape the life she'd built. You know, we've seen cases like that on this program many a times, of a parent wanting to escape the life that they have around them. They usually have an escape plan. They have a boyfriend or girlfriend. They have a life somewhere else. They have this idea of where they're going to go and what they're going to do. And it's somewhat plotted. And there's a lot of evidence to it leading up to the event that is in question. That ultimately leads them to court. Lindsay Clancy has none of that. She has not one iota. What she has is a detailed track record of begging for help. Begging for help for the mental hell to which she was living in and not seeming able to find an escape hatch.
Until it all came to a head and she lost all control and grip of reality. The state of Massachusetts wants you to believe that well that doesn't happen. That doesn't exist. There's really no such thing as psychosis or postpartum psychosis. It's all witchery. It's all, we used to burn them for that at the stake here in Mass.
And you know, I guess they might as well still do that because it seems to be about what they believe, or at least what the prosecution is performing. I don't even know if the prosecution believes it, honestly. I'm almost like, at first, there was very questioning of the prosecution in this case. Like, how disingenuous can you be? How inauthentic? How many carny tricks are you going to try and play here for something that is just... Your narrative is bullshit. Your narrative that these sort of things don't happen and that because she had examples of being lucid, that that proves that she can't be psychotic. Well, actually, no, it actually proves exactly that she is because that's how that works. It's how psychotic works. It doesn't present itself always as someone sitting in the corner, rocking back and forth, taking bites out of their family pets.
No, they are oftentimes very active, living a normal life. And little things seem off. She knew they were off. She was asking for help over and over and over and over.
How off? Well, guess what? You don't really know how off you are until you demonstrate how off you are. And oftentimes people who are that off and perform of psychosis, that's part of what psychosis is. You're not aware that you're psychotic in those moments. I don't know why any of this is up for debate. This is just medical psychology, how this works. I mean, this is not rocket science. Unless you just want to pretend that you're in a different state. That doesn't exist. Safer world, I guess, right? If people couldn't possibly be in these sort of states. I don't know. I don't know why this is a hard one for people to swallow. It's a horrible case. It's heartbreaking. I cannot imagine being there in it, but I also can't imagine living in a world where I pretend this stuff is not real. Every day of testimony gets measured against those two stories. August 6th tested both of them. Hours before the killings, Lindsay Clancy sat in a pediatrician's office with her daughter. Months later, investigators surfaced her, and both facts surfaced in August 6th. The morning belonged to Dr. Kimberly Springer, a Massachusetts medical examiner. The doctor who performed Callan's autopsy, a medical examiner, documents every injury on the body and rules on what caused the death. Springer told the jury Callan died of complications from mechanical asphyxia, which means pressure on his body and kept him from breathing. The word complications is in that ruling because Callan didn't die on January 24th. He held on for days afterward. Jurors viewed the autopsy photos on screens. In front of them, Bob Ward of Boston 25, reporting from inside the courtroom, saw one juror wiping her face with a tissue. Lindsay Clancy sobbed at the defense table with her head in her hands. The judge ordered a recess because she was inconsolable. And some are like, see, she's performing. No, I mean, I've seen performance. This isn't that.