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Lindsay Clancy Checked Apple Maps For WHAT?!
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- Jul 25, 2026
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Summary
Lindsay Clancy sent her husband out to grab dinner, and prosecutors say she used that window like a stopwatch. In Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023, Lindsay Clancy killed her three children: Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months. She isn't disputing that she did it. The fight in Plymouth Superior Court is over what was happening in her mind when she did. Prosecutors say Lindsay checked Apple Maps before Patrick left the house, working out exactly how long a dinner run would take him. Her fitness tracker recorded her climbing three flights of stairs the moment she got off the phone with him. To the state, that's not a woman lost in psychosis, that's premeditation. Her defense tells a different story. In the months before the killings, Lindsay was prescribed at least ten different medications, eight of them crammed into a single three-week stretch. She hospitalized herself three times. She called a crisis hotline and was turned away. She told her providers, in plain language, that she was having thoughts of hurting her kids. A hospital assessment ruled out bipolar disorder at the time, the same assessment two separate lawsuits now call negligently wrong. After the killings, a forensic evaluation diagnosed her with Bipolar Disorder I with psychosis and postpartum onset. Her husband Patrick found the children. He's also suing her healthcare providers for wrongful death, and he's on the defense's witness list, not the prosecution's. Her attorney even offered to admit she killed the children if the judge would split the trial into separate guilt and sanity phases. The judge refused. Some of Lindsay's psychiatric appointments in that stretch were virtual and lasted as little as seventeen minutes. Jury selection begins July 20. Whatever that fifty-four-minu…