“I COULD NOT LEAVE THEM BEHIND”!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT, A FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGIST TESTIFIED THAT LINDSAY CLANCY WAS CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR KILLING HER THREE CHILDREN DESPITE HER POSTPARTUM PSYCHOSIS… AND HER DEFENSE LAWYER HAS CHALLENGED THE EVALUATION IN COURT.
Lindsay Clancy has never denied killing her three children.
The killings occurred in January 2023.
The victims were five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan.
Her defense has argued that she should not be held criminally responsible due to her mental health struggles.
On Tuesday, August 25, the case reached a pivotal moment in court.
Forensic psychologist Dr. Kirk Heilbrun insisted that he believed Clancy was “criminally responsible” for the killings.
The psychologist testified that Clancy, 36, suffered from bipolar disorder.
He confirmed that she also suffered from postpartum psychosis and depression.
Heilbrun noted that Clancy’s conditions were made worse by her insomnia.
He added that her conditions were exacerbated by an adverse reaction to prescribed medications.
Yet, Heilbrun maintained that the defendant understood what she was doing at the time of the acts.
“She retained an awareness of the illegality of killing others, including her children,” Heilbrun said.
“Her moral awareness of this killing was influenced by her strong desire to die and, if she was dead, not to leave her children behind,” he added.
Clancy had previously claimed that she hallucinated a male’s voice that told her to kill her three children.
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Heilbrun stated that he did not believe her claim regarding the auditory hallucination.
Instead, he testified that he believes she killed them so they would not “suffer” after she died by suicide.
“Everything I did as part of this evaluation, the evidence much more strongly, in my opinion, supported the second explanation, which was the serious suicide attempt accompanied by killing the children out of love,” Heilbrun said regarding his theory for Clancy’s motive.
Then Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, challenged the expert witness.
Reddington asked Heilbrun if he had already made up his mind on whether Clancy was guilty before he evaluated her in April.
The evaluation took place in Tewksbury.
“Would you agree with me, sir, that before you met with Lindsay in Tewksbury, you pretty much had an idea this woman was a beast, killed her three kids, didn’t you?” Reddington asked.
Heilbrun responded by saying he did not agree with that characterization.
He testified that he “did his best to have an open mind” going into the evaluation.
And Reddington pushed back by raising Clancy’s background and reputation prior to the January 2023 killings.
He pointed out that friends and family had praised Clancy as “an incredible mother taking care of her kids” before the children died.
The defense attorney also addressed the background testimony presented during the proceedings.
“Bringing her life experience, which you’ve testified yesterday, that she never had any abuse in her life, was raised by loving mother and father, good student, hard worker, great mother, good friend, wonderful wife,” Reddington said.
“She then randomly decides to kill her children by strangling them. Those are the facts we’re dealing with?” the attorney asked.
The defense continues to argue that Clancy’s psychiatric disorders preclude criminal responsibility.
The charges are allegations and have not been proven in court.
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