Lindsay Clancy Trial: No Psychosis? Doctors Face Brutal Questions Over Missed Warning Signs

Lindsay Clancy’s doctors testified that they never saw signs of psychosis or mania before she strangled her three children, five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan, inside their Duxbury, Massachusetts home. But their testimony also revealed a deeply troubled postpartum mother. Did her doctors miss the warning signs of a psychiatric crisis, or did Lindsay remain rational enough to conceal what was really happening?

In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh Banfield is joined by double board-certified psychiatrist Dr. Stacy Cohen to examine whether telehealth appointments, fragmented treatment and constant medication changes may have allowed critical symptoms to go unnoticed. They also confront the question at the center of Lindsay’s insanity defense: Could she have been psychotic when she killed her children even though none of the medical professionals treating her believed she was?