Episode Details

On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse from Duxbury, Massachusetts, killed her three children, five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan, before surviving a suicide attempt that left her paralyzed. She has pleaded not guilty to murder and argues that severe postpartum mental illness left her without criminal responsibility. Prosecutors maintain that she understood her actions and deliberately sent her husband, Patrick Clancy, away before killing the children.

In this episode of You Can’t Unhear, we examine Patrick Clancy’s emotional trial testimony, Lindsay’s mental-health decline, her psychiatric hospitalization, the final hours inside the family’s home, and the central legal question now facing the jury. Did postpartum psychosis prevent her from understanding or controlling her actions, or does the evidence show planning and premeditation? The trial began in July 2026 and remains ongoing.