The Clancy household of Duxbury was destroyed the night of Jan. 24.
Patrick Clancy, the daddy of three younger youngsters, left that day to select up some takeout meals for he and his spouse, Lindsay Clancy. He would come again lower than an hour later to search out she had tried suicide. In the basement, a extra grim discovery: all three of their youngsters have been unconscious and blue, with train resistance bands round their throats.
Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3, could be pronounced useless that evening. Callan would flip 8 months previous earlier than he died three days later.
Their 32-year-old mom was formally charged in Plymouth District Court Tuesday afternoon with their murders.
She appeared through a video feed from her room at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston the place she is being handled for damaged ribs and a damaged again — leaving her paraplegic, her lawyer Kevin Reddington stated.
Here is the timeline of that household tragedy, as uncovered within the police assertion of possible trigger, Plymouth Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague’s assertion of the case and the arguments given by Sprague and Reddington on the arraignment:
September 2022
Lindsay stated she “was beginning to get anxious” about returning to her work as a labor and supply nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital.
She started seeing psychiatrists and was prescribed medicines together with the antidepressants Zoloft, Trazodone and Prozac; the anxiety-targeting benzodiazepine medicine Valium, Ativan and Klonopin; and Seroquel, an antipsychotic used to deal with schizophrenia, main melancholy and bipolar dysfunction. Patrick stated she would take as much as 4 capsules a day.
Oct. 25, 2022
Lindsay writes a observe on her telephone, “I think I sort of resent my other children because they prevent me from treating Cal like my first baby. And I know that’s not fair to them. … I know it (rubs) off on them so we had a pretty rough evening. I want to feel love and connection with all of my kids.”
Dec. 20, 2022
Lindsay is evaluated on the Women & Infants Hospital Center for Women’s Behavioral Health in Providence the place she is advised that she didn’t have postpartum melancholy.
Jan. 1–5
After telling Patrick that she had suicidal ideas, Lindsay self-admitted herself to McLean Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, on these dates.
Jan. 22
Patrick and Lindsay Clancy go to a household good friend’s home for dinner. The good friend, who hadn’t seen Lindsay in months, notes that he didn’t count on her to be there because of her melancholy, however that she “seemed fairly normal,” if quiet. This identical weekend, members of Lindsay’s household got here for a go to.
Jan. 24
Morning: Lindsay takes Cora to a pediatrician appointment. Sprague says, “there were apparently no issues with the defendant’s demeanor or behavior.”
Lindsay would later textual content Patrick and her mom pictures of Cora and Dawson taking part in within the snow and constructing a snowman.
4:02 p.m.: Lindsay searched “kids Miralax,” which is a laxative, on her telephone. She would name the realm CVS and communicate with the supervisor, who stated they didn’t have the product in inventory however had comparable medicines.
4:13 p.m.: Lindsay searches “take out 3v,” apparently a shortened type of ThreeV, a Plymouth restaurant, after which makes use of Apple Maps to see how lengthy it might take to journey there from the Clancy house.
4:53 p.m.: Lindsay texted her husband, who was working in his basement workplace, “Any chance you want to do takeout from 3V … I didn’t cook anything … It’s been a long day.”
5:10 p.m.: Lindsay calls the restaurant to order a Mediterranean energy bowl for herself and a scallop and pork risotto for Patrick.
5:15 p.m.: Lindsay texted “Pedialax liquid stool softener” to Patrick. Then she sends him to select up the meals and the drugs.
5:32 p.m.: Patrick enters the CVS at 189 Summer St. in Kingston, which is a bit more than 2 miles away. He goes straight to the kids’s treatment aisle.
5:33 p.m.: Patrick calls Lindsay, who doesn’t choose up. She calls again a minute later to substantiate the treatment. Patrick would inform police that the decision appeared regular however that she appeared like “she was in the middle of something.”
5:37 p.m.: Patrick Clancy leaves the CVS.
5:54 p.m.: Patrick enters ThreeV. He picks up and pays for the order a minute later.
6:09 p.m.: Patrick arrives at his now-silent house. He finds blood on the ground of their upstairs bed room.
6:11 p.m.: Patrick calls 911 to report that Lindsay had tried suicide. Over the telephone Lindsay will be heard saying, “I tried to kill myself and jumped out the window.” Police discover her outdoors on the bottom at left aspect of the home. She seems to have lower her wrists and neck and had jumped out of the bed room window.
Inside the house, police — together with a daytime college useful resource officer who had picked up an time beyond regulation shift — observe the sound of Patrick’s “extremely loud screaming” to the basement and discover the three youngsters there.
7:28 p.m.: Both Cora and Dawson are pronounced useless at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Plymouth.
Jan. 25
Plymouth DA Timothy Cruz points an arrest warrant for Lindsay. The warrant lists two expenses of homicide and three expenses every of strangulation and assault and battery with a lethal weapon.
By this time, Lindsay is a affected person at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
Jan. 27
11:18 a.m.: Callan is pronounced useless at Boston Children’s Hospital.
This identical day, at an unknown time, Clancy, whereas nonetheless partially intubated at Brigham and Women’s makes use of an erasable whiteboard to ask, “Do I need an attorney?”
Feb. 7
2 p.m.: Lindsay is arraigned in Plymouth District Court for the homicide of her youngsters. Judge John Canavan orders no bail whereas she stays underneath inpatient therapy. Should she be up for house launch, Canavan stated, one other listening to will be held to handle that challenge.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”