Why Was Lindsay Clancy’s Medication Increased The Day Before?

The day before Lindsay Clancy killed her three children, her medication was increased. Nobody has fully explained why that decision was made, or by whom. 
She’d already been on roughly thirteen different psychiatric drugs across about four months. Her own malpractice lawsuit describes that final dose increase, paired with a night without sleep, in the hours before Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, died in their Duxbury, Massachusetts home. She’s pleading not guilty by reason of insanity. 
She’d checked herself into a psychiatric hospital on New Year’s Eve after telling her husband she was having thoughts of hurting her children. She was discharged. Nineteen days later, the children were dead. 
Jury selection began July 20 in Plymouth Superior Court. That same morning, before a single juror was seated, prosecutors moved to challenge her defense experts, the third motion in eleven days aimed at limiting her defense. Prosecutors had already dropped all three strangulation charges on July 9, calling them redundant, a move that erased any middle ground between the two remaining verdicts: life without parole, or not criminally responsible. On July 13, the judge blocked women who’ve survived postpartum psychosis from testifying about the illness in their own words. 
That leaves the jury with paper: prescription records, a dosage change, a malpractice complaint describing exactly how the medication was mishandled. Two jurors were seated by lunch. The trial is expected to run four to eight weeks. 
Patrick Clancy, her husband, is on the defense witness list. He’s also suing her healthcare providers and has publicly asked people to forgive her. 
Thirteen drugs, one increase, one sleepless night, and a question nobody in that courtroom has fully answered yet. 
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