There is a murder trial currently gripping the US. At its centre is a 36-year-old mother who strangled her three young children.

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.

Closing arguments will begin today in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, who killed her three young children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — at their home before…