Why Lindsay Clancy's Three Words Could Decide Her Verdict

**Tony Brueski** (0:01)
This is Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski.

**Tony Brueski** (0:11)
Join me, shall you, as we go into the Plymouth Superior Courtroom for another day of the Lindsay Clancy trial. Let's get you up to speed on where things are at, and I certainly welcome your thoughts in the comment section below. Be sure to press subscribe, by the way, wherever you're listening. If you want to get the courtroom audio every day and take it with you as you go throughout your day, then subscribe to the podcast. The link is right down there if you're watching us on YouTube. It's a QR code. It takes you right there to our link tree, so then you can select where you want to listen, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, whatever. The links are all there for you, as well as YouTube, but you're probably already there. It's more so for taking it with you as you go. So do check that out.
Or just search Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski, whatever you get podcasts. OK. The doctor, the Plymouth County District Attorney hired to examine Lindsay Clancy, told the jury what she told him she said as she tightened an exercise band around each one of the children. The words, the phrasing as to what came out of her mouth as this action was taking place.

**Tony Brueski** (1:29)
Go to God.

**Tony Brueski** (1:32)
He said it proves she knew her kids were innocent and knew what she was doing to them was wrong. It's a lot of conjecture out of a statement given by a woman in a state of psychosis. As every doctor has already said, but you, Plymouth County District Attorney.
You know better. Your conjecture on this, I'm sure, supersedes medicine and psychology and all that. That same morning in the same courtroom, the defense's doctor told the same jury those words are the illness talking. Professionals, once you've actually done this for a living, you know, yeah.
One sentence, two experts, and the verdict now lives inside of it. After 18 days of testimony, the state doesn't have much else to decide it with. Dr. Avram Mack is a forensic psychiatrist. The DA's office retained him to evaluate Clancy's claim to postpartum psychosis. And he sat down with her at Tewksbury State Hospital on April 10th and 12th of 2026 That is three years and three months after the killings. And three years into her treatment at a state hospital. Okay. He was the first witness prosecutors called once the defense rested. And according to Mack, Clancy told him she heard a voice the moment her husband left the house for CVS and a restaurant. A male voice laughing, telling her she should kill the kids because this was her last chance to kill herself. She said she took Doss into the basement first, wrapped the band and said, go to God. And they did the same with Cora and Callan. Mack's reading is simple. Calling the children to God treats them as innocence and killing innocence is wrong. So if she said it, she understood the difference. He added that hospital records he reviewed show she was horrified when she woke up after the fall. And he reads that the same way. Dr. Phillip Resnick read it the other way. He's the forensic psychiatrist who testified for the defense in the Andrea Yates case. And he's told the jury he's worked about 80 cases where a parent is accused of doing this to their child. He examined Clancy in May of 2023, four months after the deaths, not three years. At Kevin Reddington's request, he testified by Zoom because recent surgery kept him from flying to Massachusetts. His chain runs like this. Clancy was obsessive about caring for her children. She heard a command. She felt her body taken over by something outsider in a dream state, almost like a puppet. In her distorted mind, she believes sending the kids to heaven with her was a favor because they'd be worse off on earth without her. He called it altruistic filicide, which means a killing done out of love rather than anger. In his words, she did what she believed was morally right.
Now, many will, well, that's the thing. Nothing is going to change anyone's opinion on this case. And it really is, this is a case that comes down to, I think, really one thing. One's acceptance of what is real and what is not in the world of mental health.
And it really is, that's really where this sits. Either you believe that people are capable of falling into states like this, and this is, because I don't see, I can't give you a better case of where it's more well documented the way a person fell into this, and the causation leading up to that, with all the drug mixtures, the existing condition, everything there. I mean, this is just like textbook, okay, here's how someone can fall into a state of psychosis.