Lindsay Clancy’s Mother Testifies — She Knew About the Thoughts in December
Lindsay Clancy’s own mother took the stand this week, and what she admitted under oath is going to sit with people. Paula Musgrove told the court that back in early-to-mid December 2022 — weeks before three-year-old Dawson, five-year-old Cora, and seven-month-old Callan were allegedly strangled with exercise resistance bands inside the family’s Duxbury home — Lindsay told her, and told Patrick, that she was having thoughts of harming her children. That’s not a vague warning sign in hindsight. That’s Lindsay Clancy, by her mother’s own account, saying the words out loud.
And here’s the part that’s going to generate debate: Musgrove testified she never tried to get Lindsay committed, and never called 911. Not once. Instead, the prosecution walked the jury through a string of text messages between mother and daughter — check-ins about sleep, about mood, about how Lindsay was holding up day to day. Musgrove said on the stand that she kept those messages encouraging on purpose. She didn’t raise the red flags she was seeing because she didn’t want to pile more weight onto a daughter already buckling under it.
Clancy, 34, faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation. She’s pleaded not guilty. Her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is building an insanity defense around severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication — and testimony like this, showing warning signs the people closest to her chose not to escalate, is exactly the kind of thing both sides will spin in opposite directions. After the killings, Clancy allegedly jumped from a second-story window in an attempted suicide; she’s now paralyzed from the waist down. Her husband, Patrick, was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court.
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