Former mother-in-law testifies about defendant's mental health struggles before children's deaths

Susan Clancy testified on August 18, 2026, at Lindsay Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Susan is Lindsay's former mother-in-law and spoke for the defence in the fourth week of the trial. Lindsay Clancy is accused of killing her three children in early 2023 and trying to end her own life. The defence showed the jury text messages from November 30, 2022, two months before the killings. In those messages, Lindsay told Susan that she was afraid of becoming dependent on benzodiazepines and could not sleep without medication. She wrote that she was "not okay" and was scared to take her medicine that night. The messages suggest Lindsay was asking for help with her mental health before the incident.