# Lindsay Clancy Couldn't Speak But She Wrote THIS

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Podcast: [True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews](https://stenobird.com/podcast/true-crime-today-daily-true-crime-news-interviews-568948)
Published: 2026-07-27T20:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audioboom.com/posts/8932187
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Intubated. Unable to speak. Her three children dead. Lindsay Clancy was handed an erasable whiteboard in a hospital bed. The first thing she communicated was a question that the prosecution and defense interpret in completely opposite ways. The jury is seated in Plymouth Superior Court. Both sides agree she killed her three children. The dispute is whether she knew what she was doing. The prosecution says the Apple Maps search on her phone, the timing of her husband's errand, and her actions during that window prove calculated premeditation. The defense says thirteen psychiatric medications in four months destroyed her capacity to understand reality. Zoloft. Prozac. Klonopin. Seroquel. Valium. Ambien. Her husband Patrick Clancy told her doctors she had turned into a zombie and nobody changed course. One prescriber did not know what another was giving her. She begged for help repeatedly. Patrick Clancy appears on both witness lists. The prosecution plans to call him first. He filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against her providers. He publicly said he was not married to a monster. He forgave her. Massachusetts is one of the states where the prosecution bears the burden on insanity. They must prove she was sane beyond a reasonable doubt. Andrea Yates was convicted, then acquitted at retrial, under a Texas standard that put the burden on the defense. Andrea Yates drowned five children during a postpartum psychotic episode in Texas. A jury convicted her. A second jury acquitted her on retrial. Massachusetts places the burden on the prosecution, not the defense. The Commonwealth must prove Lindsay Clancy was sane beyond a reasonable doubt. With thirteen medications and a medical record full of ignored warnings, that burden may be the prosecution's biggest obstacle. Retire…

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