Lindsay Clancy Can't Walk. The State Used ONE Word.

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
This is Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski. Here now, Tony Brueski.

**Tony Brueski** (0:07)
The Commonwealth's case against Lindsay Clancy needs her to be a liar, not once, not twice, three times. She lied about being sick. She told her husband and her doctors that she was struggling. But the prosecution says she was performing. She withheld information, exaggerating symptoms, manipulating providers. Everything she reported was a show. She faked an S attempt. A woman who went out a second story window on a frozen ground and is now paralyzed from the waist down, did it on purpose, but didn't mean it. The injuries were superficial. That is the world the prosecution is living in. They even called her injury superficial. A woman's paralyzed from the waist down. How do you walk into a courtroom and say, there's superficial injuries and expect me to take one iota of anything else you have to say with any grain of seriousness? Jesus.
The prosecutor out of the gate is already a bumbling idiot.
Oh, and she made up hearing the voices, all made up. Hallucinations didn't exist until her lawyer brought in a psychologist into the hospital room and the psychologist handed her the script. That's the Commonwealth filings that all that mental health mumbo jumbo. It's just witchery. It ain't real.
Massachusetts, one of these burner at the stake.

**Tony Brueski** (1:41)
You know, she's a witch.

**Tony Brueski** (1:45)
See, they've had a lot of progress there in terms of understanding of mental health in the last two, three hundred years.
Three separate fabrication charges and every one of them has to hold for the prosecution's theory to work. If the jury believes she was actually sick, the withholding argument collapses. If they believe the attempt was real, the cold and calculating theory also collapses. If they believe the voices were there before the lawyer, the coaching accusation also collapses. Kevin Reddington's defense opening at Plymouth Superior Court went after all three. He didn't argue them in theory. He named the witnesses, read from medical records, put photographs in front of that jury, and then the prosecution's own first witness took the stand and made one of those three arguments actually for him.

**Kevin Reddington** (2:40)
Patrick, in the presence of her mother.

**Tony Brueski** (2:47)
Let's start that again.

**Kevin Reddington** (2:50)
She told them that she was suicidal. She told them that she had suicidal ideation, and in December, to his and her ever dying regret, told Patrick, in the presence of her mother.

**Tony Brueski** (3:15)
Reddington finished that sentence. He told the jury that in December, 2022, to his and her ever dying regret, Lindsay Clancy told her husband, in the presence of her mother, that she was having thoughts of hurting the children. She disclosed the worst thing a mother can say out loud. That's not withholding. That's actually the opposite of withholding. And it happened roughly a month before her children died, in a room with two other people in it. Then Patrick Clancy took the stand. He was called by the prosecution. And before the lunch break, he had backed up everything Reddington claimed. He testified about two months before the children died. His wife told him she was having intrusive thoughts about them. He told the jury he was not afraid for their safety, because she showed no intention of acting. She was frightened of her own thoughts, which is the textbook presentation of an intrusive thought. And the precise opposite of a plan. He testified he never saw her harm them. He testified she told him she was having thoughts of taking her own life around December of 2022 He testified he grew alarmed when her prescriptions reached ten in just over two months. He pushed for an appointment in person because, in his words, there was a disconnect. The telehealth visits were short and they lacked a lot of attention. He testified that her big spiral started around the time she was put on Ceraquil, an antipsychotic. Buckingham's opening said Clancy withheld information from her husband and from her doctors. Buckingham's first witness said his wife told him, told the doctors, and that he went to the appointments himself and asked whether she was overmedicated. Those two accounts cannot both be true. Only one of them was given under oath. Reddington described what the household looked like by then. He told the jury she was walking around like a zombie, rocking on the sofa, crying, banging her head into the pillow. Her parents drove up from Connecticut and moved into the house to help with the children. That was around Thanksgiving in 22, two months before her children died. This family had a grandmother and grandfather living in the house because the mother could not manage alone and nobody with a medical license had figured out why.