Lindsay Clancy's Voice Claim Got a Witness Nobody Saw Coming

**Tony Brueski** (0:11)
In a hospital room at Brigham and Women's Hospital, days after the killings, Lindsay Clancy used psychologist Paul Zezale's cell phone to call her husband Patrick. She had been unable to speak when she first arrived at South Shore Hospital. Reddington had needed a court order to get Zezale into the room at Brigham and Women's. Clancy was being guarded by state police. A defense psychologist was the first person outside law enforcement allowed in. She told Patrick she heard voices the night she killed their children. That phone call is now the foundation of the defense's theory that Clancy was in the grip of postpartum psychosis when Cora, Dawson and Callan died.
On day 12 of the trial at Plymouth Superior Court, the state police sergeant told the jury that the lead detective on the case had speculated Zezale coached Clancy to say it. Oh, is all a coaching job. Couldn't possibly be real. No, because the witch trial of Lindsay Clancy prevents people from actually using their brains and understanding mental health and psychological conditions, postpartum psychosis, women's mental health, psychology, you know, you know, those sort of things that play a big part in how we act and how we treat one another and how we function from day to day. It's either you're, you're a good person, you got nothing wrong with you, or you're a witch. Welcome to Massachusetts. The same sergeant confirmed there was no investigative basis for that speculation. What the prosecution hasn't shown after 12 days of testimony is any evidence that someone told Lindsay Clancy to claim she heard voices.
She's already been telling providers for months she's having intrusive thoughts. They just didn't ask any more questions. What are those intrusive thoughts sound like to you, look like to you? What exactly are you experiencing? Because the word intrusive thoughts is kind of a broad spectrum to be talking about in terms of your mental health.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:34)
But why didn't she explain more?

**Tony Brueski** (2:35)
She should have known to explain. No, maybe the doctors should have asked a question. Maybe that's their job. Maybe that's a failure on their part for not going a little bit further. And the fact that she heard voices in her head and we finally get to that after she's done this horrific thing doesn't mean it wasn't happening before. In fact, it really sounds like it was. It's just the doctors weren't following up enough to get that answer.
But why would you want to get to the answer when you're in Massachusetts? It's much easier, so much easier to just say, you know what, she's a witch without actually calling her a witch. Because that's essentially, this is a witch trial. Not a lot has changed in Massachusetts over the years. Sergeant Daniel Lawlor has worked for Massachusetts State Police for nine years on the night of the killings. He responded to South Shore Hospital in Weymouth. Clancy had visible injuries and couldn't speak. Lawlor collected her clothing, including a blood-stained black tank top and jeans along with her wedding ring. He served the hospital a notice to preserve her blood and urine samples until investigators could actually obtain a warrant. This is one of those cases where the investigation was done. They checked the boxes, they crossed the T's, they dotted the I's. It's just the state of Massachusetts didn't like their answers. It's a bit like that it pointed towards a woman in distress, a woman with postpartum psychosis, a woman that had been begging for help forever.
You pesky police doing your jobs. Darn it.
Now, why it is that the prosecutor, the DA in the state of Massachusetts wants to burn this woman at a stake like a witch, I do not know the answer to that question. But maybe, just, just maybe this new tourism video from Massachusetts might give us the answer to that question.

**SPEAKER_1** (4:38)
Massachusetts, where history still comes alive. Looking for a place where the authorities don't let science get in the way of a good story? You'll feel right at home. Since 1692, Massachusetts has been the nation's leader in skipping the facts and going straight to the verdict.
Thirteen medications in four months? A psychiatric hospital stay?
A journal full of cries for help? Doesn't matter. If we can't understand it, you must have planned it. It's not a bug. It's a tradition.

**SPEAKER_4** (5:15)
My great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather helped rid Salem of its witches. Every single day, I carry on that fight. Back then, we called them witches. Now, we just call them Lindsay Clancy. Either way, we get the job done.

**SPEAKER_1** (5:30)
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