In a chilling courtroom revelation, it was disclosed that Lindsay Clancy uttered the words ‘Go to God’ while strangling her middle child using an exercise band, a psychiatrist testified.
Dr. Avram Mack, tasked with evaluating Clancy on behalf of the state in April 2026, took to the witness stand on Friday afternoon to recount the grim sequence of events leading to the murders in 2023.
According to Mack, Clancy confided that she heard a loud, commanding male voice that afternoon instructing her: ‘You should kill the kids. This is your last chance so you can kill yourself.’
Mack revealed that Clancy first led Dawson to the basement, where she wrapped an exercise band around his neck and strangled him, continuously repeating ‘Go to God’ as she carried out the act.
The testimony further detailed how Clancy proceeded to strangle Cora and Callan, before withdrawing to the bedroom in an attempt to end her own life.
Once upstairs, Mack testified that Clancy took medication from the room, cut her wrists and neck, then ’caused herself to fall from the window’ after cutting through the screen.
After laying bare the chilling details of her children’s final moments, the psychiatrist told the court he believed Clancy had the capacity to be held criminally responsible when she ‘methodically’ killed her three children.
When asked about the last words Clancy said to her children, he testified that the phrase was ‘not only hope for the children but a description of the situation.’
Lindsay Clancy said ‘Go to God’ aloud as she strangled each of her young children with an exercise band, a psychiatrist revealed in court
Dr Avram Mack, the state’s rebuttal psychiatrist who evaluated Clancy in April 2026, took the stand Friday afternoon during her murder trial and testified about the events just before the 2023 killings
Mack said Clancy told him that, on the afternoon of the murders, she heard a loud male voice say: ‘You should kill the kids. This is your last chance so you can kill yourself’
According to Mack, Clancy awoke after the murders overcome with immediate horror and shame – feelings he said showed she knew what she had done was wrong.
‘The deaths were done one by one in a way that was organized and tended to achieve a particular goal,’ he explained. ‘Her attempt at suicide was also organized in that it included as many methods as possible.’
The revelations came as Mack detailed the hours before the killings, saying Clancy reported having a ‘good day’ and her husband, Patrick, told welfare officials it was the best day she had experienced in a long time.
‘She described the day as being a fun and productive day,’ he said. But he said that behavior was ‘not inconsistent with suicide’ and did not necessarily contradict the depressive disorder she had.
Mack explained that some people experience an improved mood immediately before attempting suicide, adding that hallucinations can be either persistent or sporadic in people experiencing delusions.
Just hours earlier, defense expert Dr Phillip Resnick testified that Clancy had Bipolar II disorder with severe depression and was ‘frankly psychotic’ when she killed her children.
Clancy’s diagnosis has become a major battleground in the trial.
Her providers have testified that she did not meet the criteria for bipolar disorder or psychosis, while the defense argues that she was in the grip of psychosis and command hallucinations that prevented her from controlling her actions.
Mack, who evaluated Clancy two years before the killings, testified that he found no evidence of mania or hypomania in her records and no basis for a bipolar disorder diagnosis.
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