First responder testimony reveals desperate final moments that left courtroom shaken
HARROWING SCENES
Heartbreaking 1st responder testimony about desperate attempts to revive kids that left Lindsay Clancy shaking in court
‘KILLER’ mom Lindsay Clancy broke down in court as the jury heard heartbreaking testimony from first responders about the desperate attempts to revive her children.
The 35-year-old former nurse was left shaking with her head in her hands as evidence was given on Friday, the fifth day of her trial, as she stands accused of murdering her three children.
Lindsay Clancy has been seen breaking down in court during heart wrenching first-responder testimonies and her husband’s 911 callas she faces murder charges for her three childrenCredit: Reuters
Clancy is accused of strangling her three children aged five, three, and eight months, with exercise bands on January 24, 2023Credit: Facebook
First responders told the court of desperate measures to revive the children, with one ordeal lasting 40 minutesCredit: AP
Clancy was left paralyzed from the waist down after cutting her wrists and neck and jumping from the bedroom windowCredit: Facebook
On January 24, 2023, her husband Patrick came home from running errands to find Clancy lying injured outside under their bedroom window, and their three children dead inside their Massachusetts home.
Five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan had been strangled with exercise bands by their mother, who was allegedly suffering from undiagnosed postpartum psychosis.
After a voice allegedly told her to kill the children, Clancy cut her wrists and neck and leapt out of the bedroom window in an apparent botched suicide attempt that left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Sitting in her wheelchair alongside her defense attorney Kevin Reddington on Friday, Clancy broke down sobbing and shaking as emergency medicine doctors recalled desperate attempts to revive her children.
Paramedic Jennifer Stratton told the court how she “scooped him up in my arms and carried him outside to the truck” while pictures from the basement showed an exercise band next to Callan’s Mickey Mouse pajamas which were taken off by paramedics.
Emergency medicine doctor Benjamin Kaufman spoke about trying to revive eight-month-old Callan at Bell Israel Deconess Hospital in Plymouth where he regained a pulse but had no evidence of “brain function.”
“The first thing we do is give a dose of epinephrine, and in this case, you can look directly at the heart with an ultrasound,” he explained, with hopes that the adrenaline would re-start the heart.
“His heart started beating after we were able to give that dose. At that point, we continued compressions, continued giving him breaths through the breathing tube.
“At no point in time during his care did he have any brain function.”
Callan was flown to Boston Children’s Hospital but at no point was able to breathe on his own and was pronounced dead three days later after being put on life support.
Meanwhile Kaufman’s colleague and fellow ER doctor Mark Tenerowicz, told the court how medical staff spent 40 minutes desperately trying to revive three-year-old Dawson after taking over from paramedics at hospital.
“It did not look like his heart would ever start again,” the doctor said, detailing how they gave the child IV fluids, doses of adrenaline, and other treatments all while performing CPR.
At no point did he have a pulse or start breathing on his own.
Both Cora and Dawson were declared dead at that night.
Their mother clutched tissues in court as photographs were displayed on a large screen in front of her showing the scene where responders attempted to revive her children.
Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead the night they were found while eight month Callan died in hospital three days later after regaining a faint pulse and being put on life supportCredit: Facebook
Emotional scenes played out in court as crime scene pictures were shown including Callan’s Mickey Mouse pajamas and medical equipment strewn across the floorCredit: Reuters
Duxbury Police officer Stephen Hall was visibly upset as he took the stand and recalled the moment he responded to the houseCredit: Reuters
Clancy’s defense team argue she was suffering from undiagnosed postpartum psychosis at the time of the children’s deathsCredit: Facebook
They included several pieces of medical equipment including a heart monitor, children’s pajamas, and blood on the floor.
Other emotional scenes played out in court when Clancy heard Patrick’s heart-wrenching 911 call in which the devastated father can be heard screaming in pure agony, court reporters revealed.
Clancy sobbed the entire time the audio was played in court with Reddington holding her hand and a recess was called after jurors were left in tears.
Meanwhile, Duxbury police officer Stephen Hall appeared visibly shaken as he took the stand and recalled arriving at the scene and finding Patrick in the backyard while Clancy was drifting in and out of consciousness “in pain.”
While recalling working the scene, Hall took deep breathes and at one point removed his glasses to wipe his eyes.
“I heard a loud scream from inside the house,” he said, after Patrick went inside the house to check on the children.
Clancy faces life in prison without parole if found guilty of three counts of murderCredit: AP
He added the scream had no words, “It was just a sound” and that he walked to the basement to find one of the children lying on his back, shirtless in a diaper, before all the kids were rushed out of the home by medical responders.
Hall described Cora and Callan as being “motionless” on the floor while being worked on by paramedics and detailed how he had to keep helping Clancy put her oxygen mask back on as she kept removing it.
The outcome of the murder case will largely hinge on testimonies from first responders about her physical condition and the attempt to end her life, which included critical ‘code blue’ evidence.
The jury of 12 women and six men who were taken on a harrowing tour of the crime scene and other locations related to the case on Friday, will have to determine if Clancy killed her children with intent or if she was mentally incapable of knowing what she was doing.
Her defense team argue she is not-guilty by reason of insanity, due to her extreme mental health struggles at the time rendering her not criminally responsible for the deaths of her children.
Her now ex-husband Patrick filed a wrongful death lawsuit in January 2026 against Clancy’s healthcare providers after she was prescribed 13 different medications and hospitalized several times but discharged weeks before the killings.
Clancy faces life in prison without parole if found guilty of three counts of murder.
