Link: https://apnews.com/article/lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-301ed728e868ec398ee06864ea27b3f6

“Lindsay was struggling — we were all concerned,” said Susan Clancy, mother of Patrick Clancy, who found the Massachusetts couple’s children after they had been strangled in the family basement in January 2023. Lindsay Clancy also attempted to take her own life that night, and was left paralyzed. Lindsay and Patrick Clancy are now divorced.

Susan Clancy, who, like Lindsay, worked as a labor and delivery nurse, said in Plymouth Superior Court that she and her former daughter-in-law were close and described Lindsay as a “wonderful mother” who was “very nurturing, very loving.” Her testimony echoed emotional accounts the day before from Lindsay Clancy’s mother and sister, who recounted for jurors how they saw her become increasingly anxious, paranoid and suicidal starting in the fall of 2022.

Susan Clancy said that Lindsay was open with her about struggling and asked for her mother-in-law’s support. The jury was shown texts between Lindsay and Susan Clancy in which Lindsay spoke about fears that she had developed a dependence on benzodiazepines, but couldn’t sleep without taking them.

“I’m not okay and I’m terrified of taking meds tonight,” Lindsay texted her mother-in-law on Nov. 30, 2022, two months before the killings.

I had a conversation about this over breakfast with a lawyer friend the other day. She's convinced there will be more expert testimony because whoever they got was (to her) clearly unqualified. From a legal standpoint, she said this is one of the most difficult defenses to prove and they'll need all the help they can get.

Being through the mental health gauntlet myself in a marginally better country, it's fucking hell trying to get help when your intrusive thoughts are about harming yourself or others. I've had doctors threaten to call the RCMP even though I was In The Hospital and Asking For Help. I've been sent away with nothing and no follow up plan after these encounters as well.

Fortunately she has a litany of proof that she wasn't in her right mind and was clearly trying to get help. Unfortunately no one gave her that help.

I keep looking at this case in horror. She was a nurse, she documented everything, she asked for help so many times - she did what she was supposed to do.

It's another symptom in a overwhelming cascade of symptoms of the US failing on all fronts.