Lindsay Clancy Trial: Nurse Practitioner Says No Suicidal Ideation, Anxiety Never Let Up

The medication timeline in the Lindsay Clancy trial got a lot more detailed today, courtesy of Julie Paul, the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner who treated her before the killings. Clancy, 34, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, is accused of strangling her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 7-month-old Callan — with exercise resistance bands inside the family's Summer Street home on January 24, 2023. She faces three counts of murder and three counts of strangulation, has pleaded not guilty, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is arguing insanity based on severe postpartum psychosis and psychiatric overmedication.

Paul testified that Clancy's anxiety escalated once Patrick Clancy returned to work — and stuck around after that, no real relief. She also covered the sleep problems and walked through the different medications tried over time, laying out exactly the kind of trial-and-error record the defense wants jurors thinking about.

Except Paul also flatly said she never saw suicidal ideation in Clancy at any point. And she pushed back preemptively on the idea that switching medications repeatedly is itself suspicious — she called it standard practice in psychiatry, not a warning sign. Sometimes finding the right drug just takes attempts. That's not a cover-up, that's how the specialty works.

Clancy allegedly attempted suicide after the killings, jumping from a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Patrick Clancy was out running errands at the time and has since relocated to Manhattan. The trial continues in Plymouth Superior Court and is expected to run several more weeks.

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