The key question, she said, is whether Clancy knew right from wrong when she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan in January 2023. The jury in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial began deliberations Thursday after prosecutors argued that she knowingly chose to kill her three children.
Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague told jurors there is no dispute that Clancy was mentally ill or that she later tried to kill herself. “Killing them was a choice,” Sprague said during closing arguments. Clancy’s defense says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible.
Reddington relied on forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick, who testified that Clancy was psychotic and unable to control her actions when she killed her children. The defense says she should therefore be found not criminally responsible.
The prosecution also questioned Clancy’s account that a male voice told her to kill her children and then herself. Sprague said the voice allegedly gave no instructions about where or how to carry out the killings.
She said Clancy took her daughter to a doctor , spoke with her husband and handled normal family activities. Sprague told jurors that Clancy’s claim of hearing the voice only once was important.
Jennifer Sprague also focused on what Clancy did that day before the killings.
