Was That Really One Of Lindsay Clancy’s Best Days?
“She was having one of her best days.” That is how Patrick Clancy described January 24, 2023 to the jury deciding whether his ex-wife is criminally responsible for the deaths of their three children.
He described a morning where Dawson dressed himself for the first time and the parents texted photos back and forth, Lindsay from a pediatric appointment with Cora. He described the snowman in the yard that afternoon and the art projects after it. He said she had been back at the gym and sleeping better.
Tony Brueski and Robin Dreeke, who ran the FBI’s Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program, work through what a day like that is worth as evidence.
The Commonwealth is building on it. Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham told jurors this was not a woman in the throes of psychosis, and pointed to competence and normalcy that day as proof of a mind that understood itself. The defense has to make the same hours mean something else.
The episode also covers what prosecutors say followed. A route mapped between home, a restaurant the family had never ordered from, and a CVS. Searches for takeout and children’s medicine. An errand that took Patrick out of the house.
Dreeke spent a career reading people in their worst moments, and his answer on what a good day indicates is not the comfortable one for either side.
Cora, Dawson and Callan died that evening. The trial is about what was happening in their mother’s mind, and the state has to prove it.
The trial is expected to run six to eight weeks, with a witness list of nearly two hundred names and competing psychiatric experts still ahead.
Hidden Killers stays with this case through the testimony phase. Subscribe for the analysis on each major witness.
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