PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — The two police officers focused first on Lindsay Clancy drifting in and out of consciousness in the snow after jumping from her second-floor window of her Massachusetts home. Within minutes, they were racing into the basement after her then-husband screamed that all three of their children were dead.“I can’t wake them up — I can’t get them up!” he frantically told the officers who on Thursday, along with firefighters and paramedics, gave jurors firsthand accounts of the aftermath. The murder trial has centered on Clancy’s mental state at the time. Her lawyers do not dispute that she strangled the children with exercise bands. But they say she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. Prosecutors say Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, acted intentionally and is criminally responsible for the deaths in January 2023.
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