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Graphic and disturbing evidence in a Massachusetts courtroom today in the trial of a mother accused of killing her three young children.
Her ex-husband today testified saying the house was unusually quiet on the night that he walked into their bedroom to find his wife severely injured after she tried to take her own life.
Take a listen.
>> The blood that you you saw, where was that located in the room?
>> It was everywhere.
It was
um
it looked like it was sprayed almost with like a hose.
And there was a huge puddle in the middle of the room and it was sprayed all over the pretty much every surface.
>> So that is Lindsay Clancy there with her head in her hands in tears after her then husband's 911 call was played in court from the night of January 2023.
Prosecutors also submitted into evidence the clothing worn by the three small children that day, the day they died, and the exercise bands prosecutors say Clancy used to kill them.
We will not be showing video of the images and or that moment in court.
Clancy's attorneys say she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time.
She should not be held criminally responsible for her actions.
We want to bring in Sue O'Connell.
She's a courtroom insider for our NBC station in Boston.
Sue, you were inside the court at this very heavy, hard to watch testimony and evidence today.
How did the jurors react?
>> So there are 18 jurors, 12 women, six men.
They'll be whittled down to 12 after closing arguments.
I've been watching them for a few days now and some of them were on the verge of tears,
but they had been since day one.
Some are somber, some are very concerned.
It was a very grim day.
And I would say that as they watched this evidence be presented, first you had Patrick Clancy
walk through what happened that day.
Then as you said, we saw the children's clothes and those exercise bands. And then just this anguish, this gut-wrenching 911 call, which I I've never heard anything like it.
Many seasoned reporters in that room said it was the worst thing that they have heard.
But, the jurors remained constant.
They remained pretty much the same they had been just a bit more amplified.
You know, their reactions were a little bit more concerned or maybe a little bit more teary, but they paid attention.
And I think the word best used to describe how they reacted to it was they endured it.
>> Yeah. Uh Patrick Clancy went back on the stand after a break for cross-examination.
We want to play some of what he talked about and what the defense asked him about his then-wife's behavior just 2 months before the killings.
>> How did Lindsay appear? How was she acting? How was she faring?
>> She's extremely sleep-deprived and um just highly anxious.
>> Was there a number of occasions that you would actually see her on the sofa rocking back and forth with her head under a pillow?
>> Yeah.
>> So, let's talk about the defense's framing here and the types of questions they're asking.
What was your takeaway, Sue?
>> Well, first of all, remember Patrick Clancy here is the Commonwealth.
He's the state's witness, right?
That was the cross-examination by the defense.
And I think what the defense here is obviously trying to do is lay the groundwork that
Lindsay Clancy was was sick.
She This is not something she intended to do, which
is the whole insanity defense that they
are presenting here, that she had been sick for many, many, many weeks before the the killing, which she admitted to, the killing of her three children.
And that she was sleep-deprived.
She was
sleep-deprived.
She was anxious.
And her husband, her ex-husband now, but he was very involved in her care.
He was very concerned about what she was happening what was happening to her, about the medications that she was taking.
So, what they're doing right here is just laying the groundwork with the Commonwealth witness for their defense.
>> Yeah, how horrific.
Sue O'Connell, thank you very much.
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