Lindsay Clancy Trial: Reddington's Opening — "She Begged for Help"

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
This is live courtroom coverage of the trial of Lindsay Clancy from the Hidden Killers podcast in True Crime Today. Now, back to the courtroom.

**Kevin Reddington** (0:11)
You know, normally, we thank jurors for time away from your life, your jobs, your family. Coming to court, listening to a trial, certainly is a service that's provided by you as citizens. But in this case, God bless you.
You people are going to have to listen to some of the most horrific things. Look at some of the most horrific things. In jurors, it's a beautiful system. You pass between, as you've heard Don Clark say. You probably don't remember it, but it's all language. It was back to Old England. It says that you as jurors pass between the government, them.
And she places herself on her country, which country you are. You owe allegiance to nothing but your oath, your consideration and your time, your common sense. You bring your life experience to this trial. You run to revert it.
And as jurors take the job very, very, very seriously, new people will never forget this case.
And thank you for that service.
The government says that this is a situation, it's not a referendum on women's having babies and having post-partum psychosis, post-partum depression, but it sure as hell is. Because you're going to hear, consistent with what His Honor told you in the instructions, consistent with the obligation that the government has when they brought this charge, they brought this charge, Tim Cruz, the DEA, right in the front row brought this charge. He knew, as did his office, the facts of this case. And he knew when he brought this charge, that it was going to kill the soul of this young woman.
And they would bring their evidence in front of a jury that she knows that she killed these children. We'll sit here, listen to their evidence. But I suggest to you that the issue, the consideration is what was going on in that woman's mind.
You're gonna hear evidence that, as the government said, Lindsay was a kind of a parent pleaser. She was a person that in school had a lot of friends, still has friends. You'll hear evidence to this day from the sixth grade. High school, college, wrestling school. You're gonna hear evidence that Lindsay in the course of high school, she was a high achiever, gymnastics. Stopped doing gymnastics because she read herself and didn't like to do the backflips and stopped doing gymnastics, but she was very athletic. You're gonna hear evidence that right after she had the birth, the last child, within four or five days, she ran a 5K. She was very, very, very physically fit. Her life was such that she watched what she ate, watched what she did, and her life inspired her activities. And was one heck of a mother. She loved her children. All the things that the DEA said to you about those little kids, and their life, and what they liked, she knows a thousand times more than what they know.
And in that capacity, as a mother, daily, you'll see evidence that she would decorate looms, that she and Patrick did have that achievement of a wonderful life. They had it all. They met in Boston. She was a young nurse out of school. He was working in his industry. They ended up falling in love. They got married. Bought a nice house. And people will say, oh, they're living in this mansion. No, they're living in a very, very humble house in Duxbury that they had to struggle to pay for. That house, you will see, not from the view, because it's not enough that we have photographs. On top of the photographs, we have to have a video. On top of the photographs and the video, we have to have an auto-computerized, the animated display. And on top of the photographs, the video, the automated animated display, we have to get on a bus and go take a ride and look at the house where some guy and his wife are now living, that it doesn't look at all like what it looked like when Lindsay and Patrick were living there with their three kids. But there are videos that show what that home looked like that day, prior to that. You'll see in every room, there are things hanging on the walls, alphabets, colors, numbers, pictures of different cartoon characters. And until we even remember what they are. Movies, all sorts of toys, arectocets, trucks, all over the living room. There was no dining room. It was a large thing for the baby to be in, and then surrounded by toys. Every single room had toys in it. These children were loved and nurtured and cared for by Cora. She didn't want to get rid of her kids because of her selfish life as the government indicates. She loved those children right up to the time of their death.