Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of killing her three children, remains under constant suicide watch more than three years after their deaths, with her lawyer saying she continues to struggle with their absence and wishes she could be reunited with them.
Her attorney, Rosemary Scapicchio, disclosed the details in an interview with CBS News aired on Monday, November 2, 2026, saying Clancy is under continuous one-on-one supervision at a state psychiatric facility because of fears she could take her own life.
“She doesn’t want to be here. She wants to be with her children. And if given the opportunity, I have no doubt in my mind at all that she would take her own life,” Scapicchio told CBS News.
The lawyer said her client wakes up each morning confronting the absence of her children and experiences distressing dreams about the events that led to their deaths.
Clancy, 36, faces three counts of first-degree murder over the January 24, 2023 deaths of her children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months.
Prosecutors allege that she strangled the three children at their family home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, while her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, was away. She later jumped or fell from a second-floor window in what investigators described as an apparent suicide attempt, leaving her paralysed from the waist down.
Her defence team maintains that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time and was not criminally responsible for the killings. Prosecutors, however, argue that the deaths were deliberate and that she understood the consequences of her actions.
Her first trial ended in a mistrial on September 4, 2026, after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Reports indicated that the jury was split 11-1, with most jurors favouring a finding that she was not criminally responsible.
On November 2, Clancy appeared in court as her lawyers sought to have the murder charges dismissed, arguing that putting her through another trial would violate her constitutional protection against double jeopardy.
Judge William Sullivan took the application under advisement and scheduled another hearing for November 16. Prosecutors have indicated that they intend to retry her, with March 2027 discussed as a possible timeframe.
Separately, Scapicchio revealed that Clancy is pursuing a medical malpractice lawsuit against 11 medical professionals, whom she accuses of failing to properly diagnose and treat her psychiatric condition before the children’s deaths. The professionals dispute the allegations.
The case has drawn attention to postpartum mental health, the responsibility of medical practitioners in diagnosing psychiatric conditions and the legal question of criminal responsibility in cases involving severe mental illness.
