Lindsay Clancy and her eldest child seemed “very normal” to the family pediatrician who treated Cora, 5, mere hours before the killer mom strangled her daughter and her two young sons in 2023.

The doctor told the 18-person jury Thursday at the Massachusetts murder trial that she “always thought [Lindsay] was a good mom.”

Clancy, 35, doesn’t contest that she killed her three young kids with exercise bands in the basement of the family’s Duxbury, Mass. home in January 2023, while experiencing a slew of postpartum mental illnesses.

The labor and delivery nurse is charged with three counts of murder and faces life in prison without parole if convicted.

Clancy’s defense argues that she is not criminally responsible for killing Cora, Dawson, 3, and infant Callan because she was suffering at the time from the rare, severe phenomenon of postpartum psychosis exacerbated by a dangerous cocktail of 15 psychiatric medications, despite seeking mental health treatment for months.

Court has wrapped for the day, but keep reading for new details and evidence pics revealed Thursday at the Lindsay Clancy trial:

Lindsay Clancy, 5-year-old daughter Cora both seemed normal during physical just hours before stranglings: pediatrician

Pediatrician Lindsay Rosshirt conducted a physical of Lindsay Clancy’s 5-year-old daughter Cora the day of the murders and didn’t notice anything out of the ordinary, she testified.

“It was a very normal visit,” Rosshirt said of the Jan. 24, 2023 physical. “Cora seemed to be behaving normally…I didn’t notice anything out of the normal. She seemed perfectly well-behaved and mom seemed appropriate as well.”

“Cora seemed to be behaving normally,” on the last day of her life, the Clancy family pediatrician testified Thursday. “She seemed perfectly well-behaved and mom seemed appropriate as well.”

Lindsay Clancy listens to testimony Thursday as she stands trial for murder in Plymouth County Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Lindsay Rosshirt, MD, FAAP, of Quincy Pediatrics, who conducted a physical of one of the children the day of the murders, testifies during Day 8 of the Lindsay Clancy trial.

The doctor said nothing seemed out of the ordinary that day.

Cora had had stomachaches, so Rosshirt recommended Clancy give her a children’s laxative and come back in two weeks if things didn’t improve, she said.

Clancy’s then-husband and the children’s father, Patrick Clancy, was out picking up the medicine at a nearby CVS that evening while Lindsay was home alone with all three kids, and killed them.

Rosshirt also said during the check-ups of Clancy’s youngest child, 8-month-old Callan, she never noted any signs of postpartum depression in Clancy — something she would look out for in mothers of infants and newborns.

“I always thought she was a good mom,” Rosshirt said during cross-examination by Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington.

Source: https://nypost.com/2026/08/06/us-news/lindsay-clancy-trial-august-6/