Three children dead and a mistrial: What is the Lindsay Clancy case?

Clancy remains charged with three counts of first-degree murder and is being held in a psychiatric hospitalThe closely watched trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing her three young children, ended in a mistrial on Friday after jurors failed to reach a verdict following seven days of deliberations. The dramatic conclusion came after a five-week trial that focused largely on one question: Was Clancy criminally responsible for the deaths, or was she suffering from severe mental illness at the time?Clancy, 36, has never disputed that she strangled her children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and eight-month-old Callan, at the family’s home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, on January 24, 2023. Her defence argued that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis, suffering from hallucinat