Recap: Defense in Lindsay Clancy trial rests, prosecutors call 1st rebuttal witness - NBC Boston

Day 18 of the Lindsay Clancy murder trial concluded Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, with the defense resting its case after calling 10 witnesses over five days and prosecutors beginning their rebuttal.
Clancy, a Duxbury, Massachusetts, mother, is accused of strangling her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — on Jan. 24, 2023, after sending her then-husband Patrick out to run errands.
After the killings, Clancy jumped from a second-story window of the home and was left paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the fall.
The defense argues Clancy was suffering from bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible, making her mental state at the time the central issue of the trial.
Friday's testimony began with forensic psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Resnick, who appeared remotely amid Zoom feed problems that delayed proceedings, followed by psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack as the first of several expected prosecution rebuttal witnesses.
Closing arguments are anticipated early the following week, leaving jurors to weigh the competing psychiatric evidence about whether Clancy was experiencing psychosis when the children were killed.