LINDSAY Clancy’s sister has taken the stand, detailing the conversations they had in the month before she strangled her three kids.

Lindsay, 36, has pleaded not guilty to three murder charges in connection with her kids’ deaths on January 24, 2023 in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

Lindsay Clancy (pictured Monday) is on trial after she strangled her three children with exercise bands on January 24, 2023

Lindsay Clancy’s sister Allison Ozga took the stand on Monday, detailing Lindsay’s mood in the months before she killed her kids

Callan, Dawson and Cora were found in the basement of their Massachusetts home with exercise bands around their necks

Lindsay’s parents Paula Musgrove (center) and Mike Musgrove (right) have attended every day of her murder trial

Lindsay has admitted to killing her kids, but her defense attorney plans to argue she was suffering from undiagnosed postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings and therefore not criminally responsible.

The former labor and delivery nurse‘s trial entered its fourth week on Monday, where the prosecution rested their case.

The prosecution argued that Lindsay “coldly and efficiently executed” five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan, calling dozens of witnesses to the stand.

Lindsay’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington then got the chance to call witnesses to the stand, including Lindsay’s sister and mother.

Before witnesses were called and while the 18 jurors were out of the courtroom, Reddington asked the judge to find Lindsay not guilty by reason of insanity or to reduce her charges from first-degree murder to second-degree murder.

Judge William Sullivan ultimately denied the motion without explanation, but Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague asked him to deny it, claiming it was premature.

While Lindsay’s sister, Allison Ozga, was on the stand, she talked about conversations she had with the mom of three weeks before she strangled her kids with exercise bands and tried to end her own life.

Ozga said she hadn’t seen her sister in a while, but was aware she was not doing well.

On Thanksgiving 2022, Ozga recalled Lindsay’s mood “did not look good, she didn’t seem very energized.”

“It definitely seemed off from how I’d seen her in the past.”

Ozga said Lindsay “decompensated ” at the beginning of December and recalled having a conversation with her where Lindsay said she was in a “really tough spot.”

“She reported her mood was worsening, as she described it as depression, she was having more suicidal thoughts, insomnia continued to be an issue.

Lindsay’s three children pictured weeks before their deaths

Lindsay has admitted to killing her kids, but her defense attorney plans to argue she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from undiagnosed postpartum psychosis

“She was really not feeling like herself.

“I had this gut feeling that something was off, and that she was really struggling and I asked her if she was safe,” she testified, adding that Lindsay said she was safe.

Ozga said Lindsay told her around the end of December that she had been experiencing suicidal ideation every day for a month.

Ozga, a social worker who is a mandated reporter through her job, told the courtroom she never felt the need to report that her sister might harm her three young kids or herself.

Ozga said Lindsay appeared tired at Cora’s birthday party, days after she left inpatient treatment at a local hospital

Fellow labor and delivery nurse Margaret Hamp said Lindsay cried when she told her about the Andrea Yates case years before she killed her kids

Ozga attended Cora’s birthday party at the beginning of January, which was just two days after Lindsay had gotten out of inpatient treatment at McLean Hospital.

She said Lindsay looked like she was going through the motions of throwing a birthday party for her daughter, but appeared to still be tired and struggling.

Their mother, Paula Musgrove, was the one to call Ozga to tell her about the events that unfolded on January 24, 2023, Ozga testified.

Before Ozga took the stand, Reddington called his first witness, Margaret Hamp, a labor and delivery nurse who worked with Lindsay at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Cora, five, and Dawson, three, were pronounced dead at the hospital on January 24 2023, and eight-month-old Callan died three days later

Lindsay’s then-husband Patrick Clancy found the three kids in the basement of their home

“She was the type of nurse you wanted taking care of you or your loved one,” Hamp said at the witness stand.

Hamp said she met Lindsay when she first started working at the hospital, and recalled a case during Lindsay’s first summer on the job where a pregnant woman came to the hospital with suicidal thoughts.

Hamp said the two had a conversation about mental health in pregnancy and postpartum.

She told Lindsay about the case of Andrea Yates, a mom of five who drowned her children, ranging in age from four months to seven years old, in the bathtub of their Houston, Texas, home in 2001.

“She cried and said ‘how could a mother hurt her children,’” she said of Lindsay.

Yates was found guilty at her first trial, but her conviction was later overturned.

She was found not guilty by reason of insanity during her second trial in 2006.

Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to three murder charges she faces in connection to Cora, Dawson and Callan’s deaths in 2023.

In the four months before their deaths, Lindsay saw several healthcare providers and was prescribed 13 different psychiatric medications.

During that time she was also hospitalized for suicidal ideation and had called the suicide hotline twice but was turned away both times, according to Reddington.

After she killed her three kids while her then-husband Patrick Clancy was briefly out of the house, Lindsay crushed up pills, cut her wrists and neck and jumped from her second-story bedroom window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down.

Source: https://www.the-sun.com/news/16855613/lindsay-clancy-sister-conversations-before-strangled-kids/