The Lindsay Clancy Case: Everything That Led to the 11-1 Mistrial & Everyone's Reaction

26:01And then in the comments, everybody loses all depth and nuance and it just becomes a big fight. But the bow conversation has become a thing. She doesn't wear it every day, the prosecutor, but she does wear it frequently enough to the point that the internet has taken notice and has started photoshopping all sorts of different bows in her hair. They'll photoshop a bow the size of her head. There's some AI slop with her giving her opening statement with a bow that's bigger than her face. people are poking fun at how ridiculous it is and I will say some people think that it's ridiculous that the prosecutors are being ripped apart for their appearance their hair grooming their hair and makeup even their clothing with some arguing that with the trial it seems like nobody is talking about the kids and if one of the prosecutors wants to wear bows in her hair to keep the focus on the kids then is that really a bad thing one person says people only dislike it because they don't find her conventionally attractive others say how is there something wrong with the bows if she's just trying to support the babies.

26:57One person said she wears them in honor of Cora who loved bows. Maybe as adults we can cut her some slack. However, I will say a good majority or a good chunk of people, they don't like the bows. They want the bows to burn or at least put them at the very bottom of a drawer in the dresser to be forgotten. Don't bring the bows to court. One person comments, I'm a prosecutor. I would not be wearing a hair bow for trial. As a tribute to a young deceased victim. I have worn their favorite color, but I don't say anything about it. I don't point it out to the jurors and no one would have known but her family, the victim's family.

27:29You also have the extreme anti-bow groups, which think that not only is it distasteful, it feels like it just comes across cheap to the jurors, speculating, I think this backfired. It made her seem unprofessional. I understand what she's trying to do, but it just came off gross. Others say it feels performative and emotionally manipulated. If I was on that jury, that bow would have pissed me the fuck off. One person comments, the prosecutor in the Lindsay Clancy case is wearing this huge white Jojo Siwa-esque bow in her hair and it's pissing me off. To which someone comments, a mother murdered her three babies and you're bothered by a hair bow?

28:04Now, side note, I will say I'm trying to do my best to keep my language as objective and neutral as possible when describing everything, but obviously I'm human and sometimes my opinion and sentiments seep through, but I do want to clarify in most cases, it's easy to fall into the prosecution equals justice for the victims in that thought process because that is what it feels like in most cases. The prosecutors are defending the victims and the defense are defending, well, the defendant. And I don't know if this is one of those clean cut examples for this case, but I have seen people online who think that if anyone says anything remotely critical about the prosecution or the way they lawyer, that must mean that they think the defense is better.

28:43Not better in the sense of lawyering, but the defense's argument is better or vice versa. people who critique the defense, that must mean that they agree with the prosecution and she should get life in prison. So you can critique both sides. Yeah, I just don't think that's necessarily true. I mean, both parties, the prosecutors and the defense are doing some intense lawyering in this case. And just because there is criticism towards one side does not mean you're aligned with the other side. So with that being said, I think the Bo's should have stayed home. I think perhaps they could have made a small appearance during closing arguments where there's like a clearly dedicated portion for the prosecutors to explain the bow in her hair for this final day of trial and how that relates to Cora.

29:23I have no way of knowing what jurors thought about the bows, but I can see the argument that it could come off performative, but also maybe the argument that is it really that important in the grand scheme of things? I say maybe because there is research out there that jurors do subconsciously take into consideration the general appearance and grooming of counsel to form opinions. Well, to form impressions. But how much of that impacts deliberations and verdicts, limited and mixed research, right? All I can say is, it's not just like an empty conversation about a female prosecutor's attire for no reason at all.

29:56However, I do need to mention it since it is a big topic of discussion. Now, aside from, obviously, the defendant Lindsay Clancy and witnesses, there are about four other people in the courtroom that we really need to get familiar with. You have Judge Sullivan, which we're going to go in depth on Judge Sullivan later and all the online rumors that he's connected to Patrick in some sort of relational way. More on that later. But also one thing to know about Judge Sullivan is he did preside over another similar case that was overturned. Yeah, more on that later. But every individual in this case seems to add more complications to the online conversation.

30:34So you have Judge Sullivan. Then on the Commonwealth side, you have Jennifer Sprague. She is not the beau prosecutor. She's actually the more senior of the two. She's been at the Plymouth County's DA's office for over 20 years. She supervises all homicide, firearms, and narcotic prosecutions out of the Brockton office. And according to the Patriot Ledge, she has tried 28 homicide cases and more than 40 superior court cases, as well as hundreds of district court cases. She seems to be considered the better communicator of the two DAs. Which again, I do want to preface, I think prosecutors have an incredibly difficult job and without them, their long hours, probably grossly underpaid long hours, our justice system would crumble.

31:17However, I think it's okay to point out certain luring styles in prosecutors that are just weird. And I would say the two prosecutors on this case are not the best. Yeah, they're not incredibly likable. They always seem a bit on edge and underprepared. and sometimes their line of questioning just confused me in a bad way. It's also the way that their case in chief is presented. So the prosecutors, they go first. So the way, I mean, jurors aren't supposed to be online reading deep dives in this case, meaning the Commonwealth has to introduce witnesses in a way that essentially flows, that jurors get a surface level understanding, then a deeper level understanding, and it goes deeper and deeper.

31:58And the way that the witnesses are called to the stand, obviously there's scheduling issues, but it just works in a way where the whole story, the through line is easier to understand. But they just kind of randomly bring in the medical examiner and then, oh, here's this woman who like worked at the gym that Lindsay used to go to. And then now back to an officer from the initial crime scene. It just felt a little bit disjointed. That has nothing to do with the case itself. But again, you are talking about this is the presentation to the jurors who ultimately will be deciding the verdict. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

32:27So I know like we're saying Karen Reed's case also is from massachusetts are there any connection with this da's office or uh not the da's office per se but there is a strong connection with the massachusetts state police the msp and the state troopers yeah and there are there was one individual i think that worked on the case that also worked on karen reed's case but he was not he's not particularly like the most enlightening like i don't think that he did big i don't think he led the case but there were multiple times where I had to double check names where I was like, wait, that sounds like a familiar name.

33:02There was this one guy who said that he was trained at the MSP under Sergeant Keefe, not John O 'Keefe, but there was another Keefe that testified at Karen's trial, Connor Keefe. So I was like, is this Sergeant Keefe? But turns out it's Edward Keefe. It was like a whole thing. So every single one I was like cross-checking, especially if they worked at MSP. But so not strong connection, not strong, but strong in the sense of I think everyone in Massachusetts and probably nationwide has a very strong feeling of these trials that are coming out of Massachusetts and the investigation work. I think the strong connection is people are not happy with the low level, in our opinion, my opinion, personally, low level investigation work for the Karen Reed trial and the Karen Reed case as well as this case.

33:48Yeah. Okay. Now, just last year, December of 2025, Jennifer Sprague co-presented with a state trooper MSP at the National District Attorneys Association's prosecuting homicide training course seminar, basically helping train other prosecutors, which I'm sure a lot of people took a lot of issue with considering, again, people really hate this investigation into this case. They think it was handled incredibly poorly. However, Jennifer Sprague is probably the better of the two when it comes to communication and asking witnesses questions. She is first chair. She does have a lot more experience in the DA's office.

34:26and then you have Buckingham, the prosecutor. She's the one that wears the bows in her hair. She's also the chief of the family protection unit at the DA's office. And she is known on TikTok in part for saying, um, a lot. This is again, part of the online discourse and that's why we're covering it. Not because we think - She's saying a lot of um? Yeah. Just um, so okay. Yeah, and I mean, I would never bring it up if, I'm also, you know, just to give another preface, it is part of the online discourse. That's why I bring it up. I don't think it's as important as the actual facts of the case, but both the prosecutors have been nicknamed by a lot on TikTok as um and ummer because of the persistent use of filler words during pretty simple lines of questioning of their own witnesses.

35:08I think everybody uses filler words, and there could be neurological reasons that one cannot help but use filler words, so I don't think it's nice to judge based off of that. But I do think when effective communication is part of the career, maybe it's fair game to be called out. I really don't know. And again, there are many out there that argue that Sprague and Buckingham are the ones in court trying to get justice for the three children. And they're pushing back saying, are we really going to call them um and ummer when they're the only ones trying to get justice? And then, of course, people push back saying, what is justice to you?

35:38You know, is justice putting a woman who was suffering from postpartum psychosis and putting targets on other moms' backs? You know, it's a, we can go down for days. We can do this until the cows come home, right? Now, since we're on the topic of the DA's office, district attorney for Plymouth County is Tim Cruz. He's a Republican prosecutor who's held office for nearly 25 years. He's obviously not in the courtroom lawyering. He is in the courtroom frequently, especially during opening statements. But he does play a big role in this whole case because it's really his call. That's why DA's are very important because it's their call, whether they try the case and what for.

36:13He could have tried this case for first-degree murder, which is exactly what he did. He could have also tried it for second-degree murder, or he could have negotiated a plea for a lesser charge. Now, side note, it's interesting because neither Patrick nor any of the grandparents on either side have publicly asked the DA not to charge Lindsay. And yes, everyone has their opinions on Patrick. But for Patrick's parents, Lindsay's parents, and for Patrick to not ask her to be charged, not that it would be up to the family members, it's up to the DA. You're saying they didn't ask them not to charge.

36:48Yes, but all of the statements that they have publicly made lean towards they did not want Lindsay to be charged. Oh, okay, okay. I see what you're saying. So they don't say, hey, we don't want her charged. Yeah. But every statement that they have leans towards they don't want to trial, they don't want to retrial, they don't want to go through this again. And again, you can have your sentiments about all of the individuals, right? But I'm just saying like, this is the conversation with Tim Cruz. This is not a conversation about Patrick right now. I'm like, hold off, we're getting to Patrick. But this is a conversation about Tim Cruz.

37:17So he's the one that's like putting fist down and going after this. And I think netizens, you know, with the argument existing of postpartum psychosis, I guess a lot of netizens were shocked that this actually even did go into trial instead of a plea deal or even a second degree murder charge. So what happens in the state of Massachusetts, if Lindsay had been charged with second degree murder, she can opt for a bench trial, right? So she can ask the judge who might, you know, and not. It's just a lot of people in Massachusetts who are charged with postpartum crimes, if you will. Not that there's a lot, but they will opt for second degree murder.

37:54The DA will charge them a second degree murder and then they'll opt for a bench trial because it's a lot of medical testimony. It's a lot. And then to have the families go through it, it's a little maybe it's a little more private with a bench trial. But I guess a lot of people were just shocked that there wasn't even a plea deal. which side note Tim Cruz is running for re-election in November of this year but he is running unopposed so there is that and while the internet has a lot of feelings about Patrick a lot of legal experts have chimed in about Tim Cruz and the charges some are saying it's kind of weird because so Patrick Clancy is not a hostile witness so he did not interfere with the trial he came he testified he wasn't being hostile when he was on the stand and he hasn't said anything outright right that he doesn't want Lindsay to be tried but again all of his statements point to the fact that he probably doesn't one former prosecutor voices out I mean at that point when the victim's family isn't on board with the prosecution you turn back and you say well who are you doing this for then now I know I'm quite annoying I just really hate misunderstandings but once again that's not me telling you that Lindsay should or should not be charged that is me kind of showcasing the sentiment online factoring in trials are expensive taxpayers are the ones footing the bill.

39:07People are opinionated. And a lot of legal experts think that she was overcharged. And that's a legal standpoint, not a personal standpoint of like, well, she was a mother who, you know, not a medical standpoint. It was just like legally, they think it was overcharging. Then on the defense, you have Kevin Reddington. Supporters call him Big Red. People who can't stand him call him mean and theatrical. So it's just kind of, he's definitely charismatic. I will him that and it's he does seem to know how to hold the courtroom he also has the advantage of being an old man which means that when he gets annoyed it comes off more cranky grandpa in the courtroom whereas someone younger and especially a female attorney regardless of age would not be able to pull that off so i do see discourse of the internet disparity between the prosecutors and Kevin Reddington.

39:56Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. He's in his 70s and apparently he has a shoulder tattoo that reads in Latin, never represent an informant, which is a very professional, fancy way of saying snitches get stitches. I would argue that his reputation for having some dramatic courtroom displays is understated. He's quite the dramatic man. He loves a good blow-up staples printed out exhibit. You want a copy of it? Here's a billboard size of it. let me put it on the stand. He is objectively, I think, a great trial attorney. One of his biggest cases was he represented a woman who was accused of killing her boyfriend by stabbing his eyes out with steak knives, which seems like a shut and done case.

40:37However, Reddington argued that the defendant and her daughter had been abused by this boyfriend for years and that she had suffered from delusional psychosis and PTSD that results all from battered woman syndrome because of the abuse. This was actually one of the first cases to successfully use this defense. And she was acquitted. So he's undeniably, I would say, pretty good at his job. But he is still a criminal defense attorney. So take that as you will. I think Reddington is kind of getting the Alan Jackson, Brian Steele treatment on social media, where just because they represented one or two clients that people think should be found not guilty, they've kind of made these people out to be puppy saviors.

41:17and then netizens are shocked to realize that they actually have a whole list of other clients that you probably do want to be thrown in prison forever. So it's kind of this weird thing online that's happening. But alas, this is their job. I imagine they get paid a pretty penny doing it. And weird, unrelated crossover. But in the very early stages of the Karen Reed trials, Kevin Reddington represented Jen McCabe during the pre-trial stages. So when she was, I believe, subpoenaed by the grand jury. Yeah. What happened? Why is it? Well, he's a criminal defense attorney. So everything has gone civil now.

41:51So he does not represent her right now. But a lot of Karen Reed crossovers that are like loose. Yeah. So those are the main ones. Judge Sullivan, Prosecutor Sprague, Prosecutor Buckingham, DA Tim Cruz, and defense attorney Kevin Reddington. So Reddington is doing everything himself. Yeah. And apparently he's a sole practitioner. So he. No way. Yeah. I don't think there's other big attorneys in his firm. He said that he really only has his son. also named Patrick who just fetches his coffees here and there. That's so interesting. And his wife is a nurse. Yeah, a nurse. So there's a lot of, yeah.

42:27Wow. But he's in his 70s and he's kind of doing the whole thing. And he's very, another thing when you watch the trial, he's very good with his facial expressions. He kind of reminds me of Mark Agnifilo in that like older teddy bear man aesthetic. which I think does play to the jurors really well. He seems a bit more aggressive than Mark Agnifolo, just in his cadence, but I'm sure they're both sharks, right?

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46:12Now, July 27th, 2026, Prosecutor Buckingham, the one with the bows, walks up to the podium in front of the jurors. She's wearing black and she has a matching black bow in her hair. The Commonwealth opens up their opening statements almost abruptly. And this is like a huge, you know what, this is like a side tangent that I have, right? I think opening statements, I don't know why prosecutors do not focus on opening statements as much as the defense does. And maybe it has to do with their caseload. Maybe they really are just so overworked and underpaid. So there's so much grace that you have to give there.

46:48However, opening statements are the jurors first reactions to the case in chief of both parties. This is the first impression of all first impressions. The judge does remind the jurors that nothing in the opening statement should be taken as fact, but it's just to lay the groundwork of the case that each opposing counsel is going to present to the jurors. And it just, the prosecutor's open so abruptly. She gets up there. She doesn't even say hi to the jurors. She doesn't do anything. She just goes, Cora had just turned five. Yeah, it's like, it kind of took me by surprise. I didn't know she was starting.

47:21She was sweet, silly, smart. She loved sparkly dresses and wearing bows in her hair. She loved princesses and baby dolls. She even tried to convince her preschool teachers at the beginning that her name was Sophia because she loved the Disney character Sophia so very much. Dawson, he was three, a boy's boy. He was a bit rambunctious, bit funny, full of energy. He loved trucks, construction trucks, fire trucks, and he spoke with a raspy little voice. Callum was just eight months old, always smiling with chunky cheeks, a sweet little baby. We are here, ladies and gentlemen, because they are not.

47:57They were strangled, deliberately, and meticulously killed by this defendant on January 24th of 2023. One by one, she wrapped exercise bands around each one of the kids' necks and pulled until their little bodies were limp and lifeless. First Dawson, then Cora, and finally Callan. The Commonwealth asks that while the jurors hear testimony coming from a lot of people, that they quote, we ask that you keep an open mind when you're hearing this evidence and during the course of the trial, don't forget to use your common sense and your life experience. So the Commonwealth, they start laying out their case and they argue that Lindsay Clancy was not suffering from postpartum psychosis and that she had planned all of this.

48:38They argue that Patrick Clancy, the husband, works from home. But that specific date, January 24th, 2023, Lindsay had asked Patrick to go get takeout for them from a restaurant called 3D, which they have eaten at 3D before. But this will be the first time that they do takeout from 3D, which they also mention is a few minutes further than their normal to go spots, takeout spots. So it's almost like insinuating she sent him further to grab dinner. Patrick needs to also stop by CVS on the way home to pick up meds for Cora. and prosecutor Buckingham says that's when the clock starts ladies and gentlemen the defendant knows Patrick has to stop at CVS go to 3V she knows it's approximately how much time she has for him to go there and come back she then takes the children down into the basement she separates Dawson from Cora and Callan then she proceeds to wrap exercise bands around each child's neck and pull until they're dead she leaves the bands wrapped around each child's neck and goes back upstairs in the kitchen she gets a knife and then proceeds to the second floor of the home.

49:41In the middle of all of this, she misses a call from Patrick. He's at CVS. He misses the call. She calls him right back and they talk for 13 seconds. Nothing that she does or says in that phone call is of concern to Patrick. Saying like Patrick doesn't notice anything is off. The Commonwealth continues to argue. She goes to the second floor master bedroom, locks the door, crushes up some pills and attempts to take her own life. She uses the knife that she got in the kitchen to slash her wrists and her neck. She moves the bed away from the wall, away from the window. She opens the window and goes out.

50:15She lands on the cold, hard ground. Shortly thereafter, around 6 p.m., Patrick comes home. He's got the takeout bag, the CVS bag with the medicine. He enters into the house through the mudroom door into the kitchen area, places the bags down. Eerily quiet. He calls to the kids. No answer. He calls to the defendant. No answer. He takes his phone and dials the number for Lindsay's phone, the defendant's phone. No answer. He then goes upstairs and finds the master bedroom door locked. He opens it and enters the room, sees blood and the window open. He then goes to the backyard and that's where he finds the defendant.

50:51She's on the ground outside the window moaning and mumbling. At 6.11pm, he calls for 911 for help. I think the opening statements were just very weird. The Commonwealth says that once first responders arrive to the house, Patrick says he needs to go find the kids, that Lindsay had told him where the kids were and that they were in the basement. So just indicating that the kids were, I guess the insinuation being like they're alive in the basement. The Commonwealth says, So then he went in the house. That's the first place he went, down in the basement. He's still on the phone with 911 when he finds each child with an exercise band still wrapped around their neck.

51:24He screams for help and he says she killed the kids. The Commonwealth says, We expect during the course of this trial that you'll hear that the defendant made claims that either right after Patrick left the house or after he called her from the CVS, depending on which version of the events she's telling, she heard a voice. A male voice. A voice that she had never heard before. A voice that she never heard again. And that voice told her that it was her last chance that she had to kill the kids so that she could self-exit. She immediately took action when she heard the voice with no direction or details from the so-called voice and killed the children.

51:59Once she killed the children, the voice stopped. This was not a woman in the throes of psychosis on January 24th, 2023. This was a woman who acted intentionally, rationally, and swiftly to accomplish a very specific goal to kill. The evidence will show you she was not psychotic that day. Throughout the evidence in this trial, you'll learn about the defendant being the classic overachiever in school, in her personal life, in her nursing career. She was someone who liked to control every little detail of her life, of her family's life. In contrast to pictures you'll see of the doting mother, the dedicated nurse, you'll see a side of Lindsay Clancy that's different.

52:34Somebody extremely controlling, meticulous, and manipulative. Oh, so they're premeditated, evil, that's what they're calling for? A lot of people think that they, like just in a legal sense of lawyering sense, people think this was bad. Just bad. I think a lot of netizens, a lot of lawyers, prosecutors have been commenting on this case online. So take it as you will. But from what I've seen, a lot of them think, hey, it's one thing to want to get her for first degree. It's another thing to call her manipulative, controlling, meticulous. And when you present these types of words during the opening statements, the jurors are waiting for you to back it up.

53:16And they don't back it up. I do think that the prosecutor's opening statements and later their case in chief, I think they really missed the point. They overdid it. They exaggerated at some points. She says, the days were laid out with specificity. Strict schedules were expected to be maintained. Food was planned carefully. Sleep was scheduled to the minute. I, again, was expecting a military mom, someone who is authoritarian, is like maybe even spanking kids when they don't go to sleep at 9 p.m., like on the dot, like something so intense where I would feel suffocated. But all of the evidence that they laid out was Lindsay being like, oh, well, he hasn't been taking the bottle and I'm trying to do the sleep training so that he's getting enough hours in.

54:09And like when he's not sleeping, he's tired. And she's like planning and revolving her own life around the kids. It actually seemed like an overachieving mom and not a dictator, which is kind of how they present her. So it was, I think, not a great move, not a great opening statement. But they continue that Lindsay was doing well after giving birth to Callan. It was when Patrick went back to work after paternity leave that she no longer had the nanny to help. so she also makes it seem like lindsey is obsessed with the nanny doing laundry like that was a whole thing actually the nanny comes to the stand and the prosecutors are later like didn't she make you do not callen chores like you had to do laundry and she's like yeah but we agreed on it it was like a whole we'll get there we'll get there i'm getting ahead of myself i'm jumping the gun but she says she no longer had a nanny to watch the baby do laundry i think they're trying to appeal to the fact that lindsey clancy had some sort of help by saying that yes solely yeah and when you maybe have um you know just looking at the juror makeup when you have a little bit of older women as well you know when you have older generations sometimes the sentiment is there of like these young kids have it so easy when i was raising you you know so i think maybe she's trying to appeal to that but it clearly didn't work necessarily in their favor she says tidy up the house.

55:32Follow her schedule. When she was responsible for it all, it was hard. It was hard for her to maintain that control. It was hard for her to bond with her kids. And in efforts to maintain control, she withheld information from her husband, from her doctors. She reported serious symptoms that were inconsistent with her daily activities, you'll hear. And ultimately, January 24th, 2023, the defendant made a calculated decision. And again, this is just me pointing out the opening statement and not so much the case itself but again i do think opening statements are incredibly valuable to the jurors when they say calculated decision it's hard to not notice the incongruity with the fact that the self-exit attempt was less than calculated it was if it's more frantic anything the pills the knife the window nothing about that seems calculated yeah like pre-planned Yeah, to the T of like, oh, this is the perfect plan.

56:30I'm going to get away with it or I'm going to execute the plan. It just the word choices are a little unfortunate, I think. She continues. This was a woman who no longer liked the life she thought she wanted. It was getting harder and harder to control and she saw the opportunity to escape. She made the selfish choice to take it and to take Cora, Dawson and Callan first before attempting to self-exit. They end it with a statement, if you will. This is not a public debate about women's mental health And how the medical system treats women There is no dispute that she was dealing with mental health issues During this time prior to the murders The evidence will show that this defendant had a means and access to mental health That most people don't And she chose to deal with her mental health issues in the worst way She chose to manipulate her providers Seek out the quick and easy fix when she was feeling depressed and anxious And when she didn't get what she expected She chose an alternate route She sought a different doctor She changed medications after days.

57:26She disengaged from treatment when she didn't like the plan. Ladies and gentlemen, people with mental illness commit crimes every day and are responsible for them. The fact that someone may suffer or have a mental illness or a mental disease or defect is not the end of the inquiry when it comes to guilt or innocence. Within the first few minutes of the opening statements from the Commonwealth, Lindsay appears to be crying, her shoulders are shaking, and she is wiping her eyes. and so far from what I've witnessed it does appear that Lindsay Clancy is one of the more emotional defendants take that as you will some people think that is genuine emotion coming through other people think it's a show and an act so even that's to be debated from what we have witnessed so far aside from maybe David Burke's no longer attorney Blair Burke aside from them a lot of these like well-known, bigger, more seasoned trial attorneys, the defense attorneys typically are better orators.

58:22I'm not saying better lawyers. I'm just saying from what I've experienced, better orators than the prosecutors from what I've seen. And that's probably why they get paid a lot. And Reddington plays kind of right into that. He's a bit more charismatic. He starts his opening statements spending at least, I want to say like four minutes directly addressing the jurors, thanking them for taking on such a big responsibility for their oath, for leaving their families and work behind to come to court every single day. And then he just starts swinging left and right. Whether it lands, I guess is up for you to decide.

58:53He states strongly, government says that this was not a referendum on women having babies and having postpartum psychosis, postpartum depression, but it sure as hell is. He points to the DA. So he's not sitting at the council table because he's just the DA. He's not. Yeah, he's in the front row. First row. He points at Tim Cruz. Tim Cruz, the DA, right in the front row, brought this charge. He knew, as did his office, the facts of this case. And he knew when he brought this charge that it was going to kill the soul of this young woman. Now, people have opinions about this opening statement because it's centering Lindsay Clancy and her soul being killed.

59:33So that's, you know, up for debate as well. He says she loved her children. All those things that the DA said to you about those little kids and their lives and what they liked, she knows a thousand times more than what they know. He says that the jurors will see videos of the house. You'll see in every room, there are things hanging on the walls. Alphabets, colors, numbers, pictures of different cartoon characters. There was no dining room. So they didn't have a dining room. It was more of like a playroom. So they converted the dining room into a giant playroom. It was a large thing for the baby to be in and then surrounded by toys.

1:00:03Every single room had toys in it. These children were loved and nurtured and cared for by her. She didn't want to get rid of her kids because of her selfish life, as the government indicates. She loved those children right up to the time of their death. Reddington goes on to explain to the jurors that they're going to see evidence that Lindsay was dealing with severe mental health breaks and that she was trying desperately to get help. Quote, she was looking into it. You're going to see her Google searches. You're going to see her Google searches go on and on and on about how to take care of postpartum.

1:00:35What type of drugs can you get addicted to? Benzodiazepines. Is it possible to have a treatment? A ketamine treatment? What do I do as far as insomnia? What do I do about my thoughts of self-exit? Ways to kill. How do you kill? What do you do to kill? Government latches onto that. Oh my god, she's looking for ways to kill. Let's make that the basis of our prosecution on this case. This is not a righteous prosecution. They're looking for every single piece of evidence that they can to show some ridiculous concept that she wanted to kill her beautiful kids Because she didn't want to be a mother anymore This is a woman that was a nurse.

1:01:05She worked for one of the best hospitals in the country She was in labor and delivery. Cora was named after the very very first baby that she delivered as a nurse in the hospital That's where the name Cora comes from This is a woman who did nothing in her life but dedicate her life to helping people and being a good person and a good nurse and a great mom and as time went on, looking like anyone else would, please help me. That's what all this is about. Gave me help and consider the government. They will say, God, she was able to talk to people. She wasn't drooling. She wasn't putting tinfoil inside of a hat when she was going to the schools.

1:01:38No, she was able to talk to people. I guess she was fine. She put on a pretty good face. He is quite theatrical, so I'm trying to match his energy. Rennington starts detailing some of the medications Lindsay was on and prescribed since September and October, which I'm going to do like a whole deep dive into the medications and postpartum and everything that she reported to the doctors in this episode before we get into the next episode, which is more dedicated to Patrick and the internet discourse. So at this point, this is what Reddington says, at this point, at the end of November, she's reporting disassociation and confusion.

1:02:13Things were so bad at this point that her mother and father came up from Connecticut and lived with them to take care of the kids to help because she was walking around absolutely a zombie. She would rock on the sofa, crying hysterically, banging her head into the pillow on the sofa. Patrick will tell you what he observed with her. Reddington argues, apparently, according to the opening statement by the government, she was manipulating the doctors, not telling the doctors. She told them she was suicidal. And in December, to his and her ever dying regret, told Patrick in the presence of her mother that she was having psychosis thoughts of hurting the children.

1:02:48This is a woman that did not get the medication, did not get the medical treatment that she so deserved. This is a woman that was suffering from psychosis at the time that she went down to that basement. She had no motive. She loves her children. She intended to self-exit. And probably the biggest statement made by the defense, a lot of experts argue, Kevin Reddington does play into it a lot, is that every day the jurors will walk in and see Lindsay Clancy sitting in the wheelchair. And he makes that like kind of the basis of even the opening statement is like she wanted to be gone from life. You know and again some people will call it manipulative.

1:03:25Some people will call it very I think a lot of people depending on maybe their own life experiences have vastly different opinions of criminal defense attorneys. Some people think most criminal defense attorneys are scum of the earth. Some people think only the ones getting paid top dollar to represent scum of the earth or scum of the earth. Others think it's a job. Everyone needs a defense attorney when you need it. It's kind of how you will think of it but he does what the defense attorneys do. You know the defense attorneys love to come and give the defendant a hug especially if the defendant is a man.

1:03:55They love having a female lawyer give him a hug to show he's not dangerous. Kevin Reddington does love to pivot his chair anytime Lindsay is crying so that the jurors can see her crying. He does love to move out of his seat at times or move his rolly chair back so that they can see her in that wheelchair at very crucial moments. So I think that is something to note. But with that, now you kind of have a good idea of what the Commonwealth is alleging happened and what the defense is arguing happened. And that is where I leave you with the part one of the Lindsay Clancy trial. The next audio episode will be up in a few days as quickly as I can edit.

1:04:32Let me know your thoughts, stay safe, and I will see you in the next one.

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