A PIONEERING criminal profiler who helped the FBI hunt serial killers has warned Lindsay Clancy is ‘not safe to be out in the world’ — even if her defense proves she was psychotic when she killed her three children.

Dr. Ann Burgess, whose work inspired the hit Netflix series Mindhunter, believes Clancy should remain in a secure facility.

Lindsay Clancy is seen being wheeled into her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court

Dr. Ann Burgess has given her opinion on the Lindsay Clancy case, and does not believe she should be found not guilty

Clancy, 36, is accused of murdering her three young children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and eight-month-old Callan, inside the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023.

After the killings, she threw herself out of a window in a failed suicide attempt that left her paralyzed.

Her attorneys argue she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis, which they claim was exacerbated by a cocktail of prescription drugs she was given by multiple providers.

Dr. Burgess, a veteran psychiatric nurse who has studied women suffering severe psychiatric disturbances, spoke exclusively to The U.S. Sun as she continues to follow Clancy’s case.

“I don’t feel she’s safe to be out in the world,” she said.

“I don’t care what they’ve done to try to rehabilitate her.

“I feel the same for serial killers. And in a way, she’s killed three. She’s a mass murderer, if you want to look at number of victims.”

Burgess said that, in her view, Clancy should not be freed, despite an outpouring of support from those who believe she was severely mentally ill and should not be held criminally responsible for the killings.

Clancy is charged with three counts each of first-degree murder and strangulation and faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Her disability would not prevent her from being incarcerated.

If convicted, officials would determine where she could be safely housed based on her medical and mobility needs.

“She’s just crossed the line to kill somebody,” Burgess said, adding that Clancy should be kept in a “protective environment, like a psychiatric facility, in a jail or in a prison.”

Burgess also believes prosecutors have strong evidence to argue that the killings were planned, pointing to Clancy allegedly creating an opportunity to be alone with the children by sending husband Patrick out on errands.

“As long as the husband is there, there’s no way that she was going to be able to do that,” she said.

“So, from a prosecution standpoint, that’s going to say this is well planned. And she had it in mind to do it.”

Burgess famously worked alongside legendary FBI profilers John Douglas and Robert Ressler, helping turn interviews with notorious killers including Ted Bundy, Charles Manson and Edmund Kemper into groundbreaking research used to understand serial murderers.

She also testified for the defense at the Menendez brothers’ first murder trial, while her extraordinary career inspired the character Dr. Wendy Carr in Mindhunter and she later became the focus of Hulu’s Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer.

Lindsay Clancy and her ex Patrick, who also took to the stand and was questioned about the horrific tragedy

Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, showed the jury a photograph of a bloody knife

Burgess added that this would be one of the most difficult elements for Clancy’s defense team to overcome as they attempt to prove she was psychotic at the time.

She said one of the most troubling unanswered questions centers on the way Clancy killed her children — strangling each of them with separate exercise bands before leaving them in the basement.

Her ex-husband Patrick testified that when he raced downstairs, he found Cora face down with a band around her neck, before discovering baby Callan nearby with another band around his neck.

Dawson was found separately in Patrick’s basement office, also with a band around his neck.

“The method that she used to kill the children, it was very unusual,” Burgess said.

“And where did that come from? Where did that idea come from? I think is important.”

She contrasted the apparent planning of the children’s deaths with Clancy’s subsequent suicide attempt, saying jumping from a second-story window appeared far less thought out.

Burgess said that suggested to her that Clancy had been intensely focused on killing the children.

But she stressed that the crucial legal question is not whether Clancy killed them, but whether she understood at the time that what she was doing was wrong.

“We know she did [the act],” Burgess said. “But did she know it was wrong?

“That’s the sticky part. That’s the criminal part that has to be proven.”

Burgess said one detail she found particularly striking was Clancy’s reported internet searches.

“Why are you Googling psychopaths?” Burgess said. “That’s what I want to know.”

Clancy allegedly searched, “Can you treat a sociopath?” shortly before the killings.

Burgess said one person who could potentially answer many of the lingering questions surrounding the killings is Clancy herself — although she doubts she will take the stand.

“Will she take the stand? We don’t know. Should she take the stand? That’s up to her. But would we like her to take the stand? I think we would,” Burgess said.

But Burgess said she suspects Clancy will remain silent on the advice of her attorney.

She said there are still fundamental questions over exactly what was happening in Clancy’s mind in the months leading up to the killings.

“What was her psychosis part? What was the delusional part of her thinking?” Burgess said.

“Was she psychotic the whole time? Or is this something that only happened then?”

Burgess believes hearing directly from Clancy could not only provide answers about the deaths of her three children.

She said, “There’s a lot of information that we could get from her that would be helpful, I think, in understanding the phenomenon and any other case that ever comes up, or for prevention, of course.”

Source: https://www.the-sun.com/news/16832435/lindsay-clancy-not-safe-release-murder-ann-burgess/