Prosecution closing argument in Lindsay Clancy trial asserts mother of 3 planned their murders

0 August 27, 2026 13:19

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After 21 days of testimony, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial on Thursday, Aug. 27, heard jury instructions and closing arguments before starting deliberations on a verdict.

Clancy, 36, is facing three murder charges in the January 2023 deaths of her three children – Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months – at the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home. She has pleaded not guilty to all three counts.

Prosecutors allege that Clancy planned the killings of her young children by sending her husband out to do errands and then strangling the children to death with exercise bands while he was gone.

After the killings, Clancy cut her wrists and neck and jumped out of a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed. The prosecution rested their case on Aug. 17 after calling more than 70 witnesses, including Clancy’s husband Patrick Clancy and medical providers that treated her in the lead up to the killings to the stand.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/courts/2026/08/27/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-closing-arguments-live-day-22–live/91486423007/

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