By RACHEL BOWMAN, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER and RACHEL SHARP, CRIME CORRESPONDENT Updated: 11:41 BST, 26 August 2026
The murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy will enter its final day of evidence on Wednesday after five weeks of gruelling testimony, before a jury will decide her fate.Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a University of Virginia forensic psychiatrist who has worked with the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, is set to return to the stand and testify to her state of mind when she killed her three children. Clancy, 36, is charged with strangling her children Cora, eight, Dawson, five, and Callan, eight months, to death at her Duxbury, Massachusetts home in January 2023. The former labor and delivery nurse is charged with first-degree murder, but defense lawyers call for the jury to consider involuntary manslaughter as well as second degree murder. Over several weeks, jurors have heard from expert witnesses, doctors, friends, family, and Clancy's ex-husband Patrick. Testifying on Tuesday, Saathoff revealed new details about Clancy's version of the killings and the mysterious male voice she said she heard during a hallucination as she was killing her children.Clancy has admitted to killing her children but pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity, citing postpartum psychosis, and is seeking to be committed to a state mental health facility rather than face a prison sentence. Follow Daily Mail for the latest updates... The Trial USA podcast takes you inside Lindsay Clancy murder trialOn the latest episode of The Trial USA, crime correspondent Rachel Sharp takes listeners inside Plymouth Superior Court for day fifteen of the Lindsay Clancy trial, the second day of the defense's case.Rachel has been covering every single day of the trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, keeping our readers up to date with live reports and filing video roundups from the scene.Psychologist tells Lindsay Clancy courtroom she DID have control of her actions when she strangled three kidsA forensic psychologist told the Lindsay Clancy jury that he believes she was in control of her actions when she killed her children.Prosecution expert Dr Kirk Heilbrun told the court on Monday that she is criminally responsible for her actions.Dr Heilbrun, who interviewed Clancy in April this year and has spent 180 hours working on the case, believes that she was suffering from a mental defect of bipolar disorder and sleep problems during the tragic incident, not psychosis.But he said that she retained an awareness of the illegality including of killing her children.
