Lindsay Clancy murder trial puts postpartum mental health in the spotlight

Massachusetts mom Lindsay Clancy is on trial for murder after she allegedly killed her three children. Her lawyers say that she was overmedicated during her mental health crisis, which sparked postpartum psychosis. Dr. Veerle Bergink, director of Mount Sinai Women's Mental Health Center, explains more about postpartum

Lindsay Clancy agreed to a stipulation in court as a state police trooper testified no usable fingerprints were found on a knife or exercise bands.

A mother who’s on trial for murdering her three young children wrote diary entries about her worsening postpartum mental health and told clinicians she thought she was experiencing severe side effects from the psychiatric medications she was prescribed. “I’m so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyo

Lindsay Clancy wrote in her journal two months before killing her three young kids that she was “so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone,” jurors learned at her murder trial Monday. The 35-year-old Boston-area mom documented having “horrible insomnia and anxiety” and being wracked with guilt ove

Witnesses in ensuing days could shed more light on the mental health issues at the heart of the case. Clancy’s defence says she was a loving mother who was overmastered by postpartum psychosis, a dangerous psychiatric condition that afflicts a small proportion of women after childbirth and affects their hold on reality

After an opening week of wrenching testimony and a jury trip to the home where Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, her murder trial resumed Monday with more testimony about the killings in a coastal Massachusetts town in 2023.

Lindsay Clancy's murder trial is in the second week of testimony about the killings of her three children in a coastal Massachusetts town in 2023

Trial of Lindsay Clancy, the mom who killed her 3 children, enters second week of testimony  AP News