Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial heard from a psychologist Tuesday who said the Massachusetts mother told him a commanding male voice ordered her to kill her three children, then herself, CBS News reports. Dr. Paul Zeizel, who met Clancy in the hospital after the January 2023 deaths, testified she "was not faking" symptoms and used his phone to call then-husband Patrick Clancy, telling him she loved him. "She said she heard a male voice ordering her, telling her that she didn't have any choice but she had to kill her children and then kill herself," Zeizel testified. Asked why he let Clancy use his phone, he said she asked to do so and he allowed it "out of human compassion."
The defense also called a former Rhode Island chief medical examiner, a forensic psychiatrist, and both grandmothers of the children as it began its case. Experts described Clancy's reported insomnia, anxiety, and possible psychosis, while prosecutors pressed on inconsistencies, including that she did not report hearing voices before the killings. Clancy, 36, admits the killings but claims she was not criminally responsible.
NBC Boston reports on another "flare-up" during the day in court; while Clancy's mother, Susan, was under cross-examination and testified that she is an active member of the Catholic Church, a prosecutor asked, "Are you aware that murder is considered a mortal sin?" The judge ordered that question stricken from the record. Susan Clancy also testified that her former daughter-in-law—Lindsay and Patrick Clancy divorced after the children's deaths—was "very nurturing, very loving," and that she had talked to Susan Clancy about her concerns regarding the mix of medications she was on, the New York Times reports.
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