Lindsay Clancy Trial: Nurse Practitioner Testifies Anxiety Spiked When Patrick Went Back to Work

Julie Paul, a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who treated Lindsay Clancy, testified today about the day-to-day reality behind the diagnosis — not the headline version, the actual clinical picture. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family’s Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and attorney Kevin Reddington is mounting an insanity defense built on claims of severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Paul told jurors that Clancy’s anxiety got worse once her husband, Patrick, went back to work — and that it didn’t let up after that, it just kept going. She also detailed trouble sleeping and walked the court through the string of different medications Clancy was prescribed, which is where the “overmedication” side of this defense lives or dies on the details.

But here’s the part that cuts against a tidy narrative either way: Paul said she never once saw suicidal ideation in Clancy. And she made a point of telling the jury that trial-and-error with psychiatric medication isn’t some red flag unique to this case — it’s standard operating procedure, full stop. Finding what works is often a process of elimination, not a sign something’s going catastrophically wrong.

Clancy allegedly attempted suicide after the killings, jumping from a second-story window and leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Patrick Clancy was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court, expected to run several more weeks.

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