Clancy went to the hospital, called a suicide hotline and was prescribed a cocktail of medications in the months before the killings, court testimony and documents show.

Lindsay Clancy, 36, stands accused of an almost unimaginable crime - murdering her three children, aged five, three and eight months, before trying to take her own life.

Clancy went to the hospital, called a suicide hotline and was prescribed a cocktail of medications in the months before the killings, court testimony and documents show.