More than three years after she allegedly killed her children, Lindsay Clancy remains on suicide watch and is experiencing recurring nightmares, according to her civil attorneys.
“She doesn’t want to be here,” attorney Rosemary Scapicchio said in an interview published by CBS News on Nov. 2. “She wants to be with her children. … And if given the opportunity, I have no doubt in my mind at all that she would take her own life.”
Scapicchio, who is representing Clancy in a medical malpractice case, said her client’s first thought upon waking is that “her kids are no longer here.”
“She walks around all day with that right here in her face, every single solitary day,” Scapicchio told the outlet. “And then she sleeps and has horrible dreams about this.”
Scapicchio did not say whether Clancy remains in contact with her former husband, Patrick Clancy, who confirmed in September that he is starting a family with his wife, Rachel Danis.
“That’s a family issue that we don’t really want to get into in terms of what’s happening,” she told the outlet. “I know Patrick has moved on.”
Clancy, however, continues to maintain a close relationship with her family.
“She gets to talk to them on the phone. She talks to us fairly frequently,” Scapicchio told the outlet. “But she’s locked up in a facility. … She can’t do anything for herself, and she doesn’t want to be in a position where she’s a burden to anyone when the criminal trial is over. And so, part of what we want to do for her, in the civil case, is make sure that there’s enough money, so she can live independently.”
Clancy is charged in connection with the deaths of her children—5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan—who prosecutors say she strangled at the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. Prosecutors have argued that she deliberately killed the children, while her defense has said she was experiencing postpartum psychosis.
In September, the judge declared a mistrial after jurors deadlocked 11-1 over whether Clancy should be found not guilty by reason of a lack of criminal responsibility.
During a hearing later that month, defense lawyer Kevin Reddington claimed there was a “total and complete lack of evidence” showing that Clancy killed her children. He described the police work as a “horrific, ridiculous investigation,” criticized the evidence as “woefully deficient” and argued that the state had failed to establish that Clancy was not suffering from postpartum psychosis.
Several days later, Judge William Sullivan rejected Reddington’s request to find Clancy not guilty because of insufficient evidence. In his ruling, Sullivan said the prosecution had presented evidence “sufficient” for the case to proceed to trial.
What Happened at Lindsay Clancy’s Nov. 2 Hearing?
The CBS News interview was released the same day Clancy returned to Plymouth Superior Court, where a heated exchange took place between Reddington and Sullivan.
According to Court TV, Reddington pressed the judge to dismiss the murder charges and raised concerns about the juror who had held out during deliberations, identifying the juror by name.
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“I’m going to stop you right there,” Sullivan replied, directing Reddington to refer to the individual as “Juror Doe.”
“No, you’re not going to stop me,” Reddington answered, saying the juror’s name was already “all over the internet.”
Later in the hearing, Reddington declined to move discussion of the juror’s criminal history into a private exchange, despite a request from prosecutor Jennifer Sprague, the outlet reported.
“Well, hold on,” Sullivan said. “I think I make the decision on that objection.”
When Is Lindsay Clancy’s Next Court Date?
Sullivan scheduled the next hearing for Nov. 16, when the court may address whether Clancy will face a new trial, according to the Washington Post.
“I’m thinking sometime in March, if we could do that — or earlier, if possible,” he said. “But I think March is probably realistic.”
Meanwhile, Lindsay’s lawsuit moves ahead.
Lindsay alleges that her former medical providers failed to appropriately diagnose and treat her before the killings. The defendants dispute the allegations, according to CBS News.
Attorney Andrew Meyer told CBS News there was “no question” that Lindsay had postpartum psychosis during the killings.
He also criticized the testimony of psychiatrist Jennifer Tufts, who had a virtual appointment with Lindsay one day before the killings.
“I think there are certain things she said and certain things she actually recorded in the record,” he told CBS News, “that are going to come back to haunt her terribly in this civil trial.”
Scapicchio said the lawsuit aims to prevent another child’s death.
“If we save one other child, if we save one other woman, if we save one other family, then our efforts have been worth it, and the children didn’t die in vain,” she told CBS News. “And that’s what keeps Lindsay going these days.”