Lindsay Clancy trial: Why Dr Margaret Spinelli didn't give testimony? Alleged Facebook posts surface as court ends early

Dr Margaret Spinelli, a postpartum psychosis expert, was to be called to testify in the Lindsay Clancy trial on Wednesday, but wasn't and court ended early.

Day 17 wrapped early on Thursday in the trial against Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who admitted to killing her three children. CBS News correspondent Shanelle Kaul has the details.

The amateur sleuths online seem to be united by one shared belief.

Sheila Cavanaugh details Lindsay Clancy’s grief and repeated comments about her children as trial nears final phase.

"If you're going to hold it against anybody, hold it against me," Judge William Sullivan said of the short day in court

Lindsay Clancy didn’t appreciate the 'wrongfulness' of killing her three children because of her mental-health issues, a psychologist testifying for the defence said at her murder trial Wednesday.

A forensic psychologist testified that Lindsay Clancy reported hearing a male voice commanding her to kill her children before the Duxbury murders.

Jurors have already heard testimony from her psychiatrists and other medical providers who said they didn't believe she was in a psychotic state.

A trio of medical experts and the former mother-in-law of Lindsay Clancy testified in her defense at her triple-murder trial on Tuesday.

Lindsay Clancy had a heart rate of just 57 beats per minute just before, or potentially as she started to fatally strangle each of her three young children on January 24, 2023. Testimony from digital forensic specialist Ian Whiffin revealed Monday that Clancy’s Apple Watch recorded a heart rate of 57 bpm at 5:23 p.m. .

The defense has begun calling witnesses in the emotionally charged trial of Lindsay Clancy

Prosecutors have finished presenting their case in the emotionally charged trial of Lindsay Clancy

Prosecution rests in Lindsay Clancy murder trial. Defense now gets its turn calling witnesses  AP News

Clancy’s live-streamed trial has become fodder for amateur sleuths to push viral conspiracy theories that threaten to undermine efforts to de-stigmatize illness, experts say Meghan Cliffel was riding the subway in New York City in December 2015 when she became convinced the entire city belonged to a cult that was plot

The high-profile murder trial of Lindsay Clancy's has put the condition in the spotlight. Women who have had it call for more research and understanding of a difficult mental illness.