Lindsay Clancy's Handwriting Became WHAT Before The Killings?

A month before the killings, Lindsay Clancy's handwriting stopped looking like handwriting. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington showed the jury her journal entries from December 2022 and called them chicken scratches — proof, he argued, that her mind was already unraveling before anyone outside her house noticed.  Reddington built his case around a chart too: lorazepam, sertraline, hydroxyzine, buspirone, trazodone, prescription after prescription piled onto a new mother by providers who never once compared notes. The defense's final witness, forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick — who evaluated Andrea Yates in her own case decades ago — told this Plymouth County jury Lindsay Clancy was clearly psychotic when she killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan.  The prosecution's own experts complicated their case. Forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun told jurors this was a serious suicide attempt accompanied by killing her children out of love, because Clancy couldn't bear to leave them behind. Forensic psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff, under defense questioning, agreed the prosecution's opening statement had minimized what Clancy was actually experiencing — and flagged what he called significant inconsistencies in how she described the voice that told her to kill them.  ADA Jennifer Sprague's closing argued something colder: that Clancy made a rational choice, that her children were the only thing keeping her from her own death, and that she left them in the basement and went upstairs to finish what she'd started.  The jury spent three and a half hours deliberating on their first day and went home without a verdict. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta sit down with Tony Brueski to pick apart a prosecution case that may have undercut itself. 

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