Lindsay Clancy's Officer Said She Was Dying That Night

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A Code Blue was called for Lindsay Clancy. That's not a metaphor, that's not some sort of editorial shorthand. A Duxbury Police Officer named Richard Lippard sat in a hallway at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston for 16 hours watching Lindsay Clancy lie sedated and unconscious in a hospital bed. She never spoke, she never moved, and sometime during the night of January 24th of 2023, a Code Blue was called for her room. A defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, her defense attorney, asked Lippard to spell out what that means on the stand. What it means, that meant she was dead or dying right. Lippard's answer was yes. The prosecution's theory in this case is that Lindsay Clancy staged her injuries, the cuts across her neck, the slices across both wrists, the jump from a second story window that shattered her spine and left her paralyzed from the waist down for the rest of her life. All of it was a performance, calculated theater by a woman who according to the state was lucid enough to plan and execute the deaths of her three children and then fake an attempt on her own life. On Friday, July 31st, which was day four of the testimony in Clancy's murder trial at the Supreme Court, the jury heard that detail for the first time. They all walked through the house where all of this happened. And they listened to two emergency room doctors describing clinical detail, what it was like to try and save three-year-old Dawson Clancy for 40 minutes and fail. Everything that happened on Friday mattered and the prosecution scored what looked like a clean point along the way. A Duxbury detective confirmed under redirect that nobody at South Shore Hospital was actively treating the wounds on Lindsay's neck and wrists. The state wanted that on the record. The morning started with a bus. The jury left Plymouth Superior Court and retraced the route Patrick Clancy drove on the night of January 24th, 2023 First stop was the 3V restaurant in Plymouth where Patrick packed up the takeout. Lindsay had ordered then the Kingston CVS where he stopped to grab medicine for five-year-old Cora. He called Lindsay from the store to make sure he was getting the right thing. She was quiet on the phone. He testified earlier in the week that he hung up thinking she was probably giving the kids a bath.
Then the bus drove to 47 Summer Street, Duxbury. The jury went through the house in groups of six. They walked the outside of the property. They went through the basement where Patrick found the children. They went through every room on both floors. They stood on the second floor and they saw the window. The home's current owner had objected to this visit. The judge overruled it. This jury was going to see that house, both sides, one of them there. And the reason both sides, one of them there, is the reason Friday mattered as much as it did. The prosecution wanted the jury inside 47 Summer Street because of the stairs. A WBZ legal analyst laid out the state's strategic play. The jury now understands the physical distance between the basement and the second floor bedroom. They can feel it. They walked it. The prosecution alleges Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children in the basement with exercise bands and then climbed those stairs. She went to the second floor, took the pills, cut her own neck and wrist with a knife and jumped out the window. That sequences the state's argument for premeditation. Each step required a decision. Each decision required lucidity. A person in the grip of a psychotic break, in their opinion, doesn't navigate a staircase, locate a knife, inflict wounds and then select a window. That's the argument the house is supposed to make, that people just don't do these sort of things in psychosis.
A completely non-clinical opinion by someone not educated on the topic is what it really is. And don't you want to believe it too?
What am I basing it on other than your uneducated opinion? It's my uneducated opinion. You should of course follow it. But that's not what any sort of medical expert would say is going on with someone who's suffering from that. That's just not accurate. That's not true. But it's, but she's, she's bad. She's, she's a horrible person.
Again, it's not really arguing what psychosis is.
But that seems to be how this argument plays when you have it with anyone. They're, they want to understand how this works medically, psychologically, or they, they just want to tell you that she's a really horrible human being. Okay. I mean, both can be true at the same time.