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Nurse Lindsay Clancy Pleads Not Guilty in Children Killing Case

8/18/2026

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Lindsay Clancy, former labor-and-delivery nurse, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder while her defense argues postpartum psychosis should exempt her.
Prosecutors say she planned the Jan. 24, 2023 killings, sent her husband for takeout, and strangled the three children with exercise bands.
Psychiatric experts testified she was on more than ten medications, displayed mixed manic states, and had no postpartum psychosis diagnosis before the murders.

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Lindsay Clancy, former labor-and-delivery nurse, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder while her defense argues postpartum psychosis should exempt her.
Prosecutors say she planned the Jan. 24, 2023 killings, sent her husband for takeout, and strangled the three children with exercise bands.
Psychiatric experts testified she was on more than ten medications, displayed mixed manic states, and had no postpartum psychosis diagnosis before the murders.