Lindsay Clancy Trial: Former Prosecutor Weighs In On 'Battle Of The Experts'

Aug 26, 2026 04:20 AM - 2 hours ago 2

Closing arguments are expected this week successful the proceedings of Lindsay Clancy, the erstwhile labour and transportation caregiver who was charged pinch murdering her 3 kids—5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan—on the evening of Jan. 24, 2023. Both sides person acknowledged Lindsay was the 1 who strangled her 3 kids successful the basement of her Duxbury, Massachusetts, home, but the conflict successful the courtroom is alternatively connected her intelligence authorities while doing it. In what has been described arsenic the "battle of the experts," aesculapian professionals person fixed conflicting grounds astir Clancy’s intelligence state. A psychiatrist for the prosecution said that he believed Clancy was not successful a psychosis, but alternatively exhibiting the behaviors of personification suffering from a “major depressive episode.” A psychiatrist for the defense said he thought she was successful a postpartum psychosis, and successful his opinion, was “unable to conform her behaviour to the requirements of the rule connected the time that she took the lives of her children.” Former charismatic Margaret McLean joined “Forbes True Crime” to talk the standout moments from the trial.

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