Prosecutors read entries from Clancy’s diary while questioning a state police investigator

Prosecutors read Lindsay Clancy’s diary entries in court as her murder trial entered its second week.

Clancy is charged with the murders of her three young children, who were strangled to death in the family’s Duxbury, Mass., home in January 2023.

Though she does not deny killing the children, Clancy’s defense is arguing that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and thus was not criminally responsible.

Prosecutors, who are claiming that Clancy deliberately killed her children, read from her diary in court while questioning a state police investigator on Monday, Aug. 3.

The closely watched trial has been streamed live by the Associated Press, among several other outlets.

While Massachusetts State Police investigator Cory Melo was being questioned on the stand, Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham read Clancy’s diary aloud.

Clancy wrote that she was “completely overwhelmed” trying to take care of her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan.

“I feel like I’m drowning every day,” she wrote.

Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington also referenced diary entries while cross-examining Melo.

Reddington noted entries in which Clancy wrote she had “brain fog” and that she felt “completely disconnected with my baby.”

After strangling her three children, Clancy cut her wrists and jumped out a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down.

She was discovered by her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, who subsequently found the children.

Earlier Monday in court, prosecutors questioned witnesses who treated Clancy following the apparent suicide attempt.

The questions asked by the prosecution seemed to call the legitimacy of the suicide attempt into question.

When asked about the nature of Clancy’s injuries, emergency room doctor Kelly McDonough testified that she observed “superficial lacerations” on Clancy’s wrists.

Reddington seemed to anticipate the prosecution tactic, saying in his opening statements, “This is no fake suicide.”

The trial could last several more weeks.

Source: https://people.com/lindsay-clancy-s-diary-entries-read-in-court-12033156