Episode Notes — Thirteen Medications: The Lindsay Clancy Case [Developing — Trial Ongoing]

Case: Lindsay Clancy Location: Duxbury, Massachusetts Status: Ongoing — trial nearing conclusion, no verdict as of publication Period covered: 2022–2026 (production date: August 2026)

Key people:

• Lindsay Clancy — former labor and delivery nurse, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to three counts of first-degree murder
• Patrick Clancy — Lindsay's husband, discovered the children and called 911
• Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy — the three children, ages 5, 3, and 8 months, who died on 24 January 2023
• Rebecca Jollotta — psychiatric nurse practitioner who managed much of Clancy's outpatient care in the weeks before the killings

Timeline:

• December 2016 — Lindsay marries Patrick Clancy
• 2017–2022 — Cora, Dawson, and Callan are born
• Mid-late 2022 — Lindsay's mental health deteriorates following Callan's birth
• Late December 2022 — inpatient admission to McLean Hospital
• 5 January 2023 — discharged from McLean Hospital
• 24 January 2023 — the three children die; Lindsay attempts suicide, is left paralyzed
• September 2023 — indicted on three counts of first-degree murder
• July 2026 — trial begins
• August 2026 — defense rests; closing arguments imminent; no verdict yet

Themes covered:

• Fragmented psychiatric care across multiple providers and institutions with no shared record access
• Rapid escalation of psychiatric medication (13 drugs in 4 months) across multiple prescribers
• Discharge decisions from acute psychiatric care
• What postpartum psychosis actually is, clinically, presented factually and separately from the contested question of whether Clancy experienced it
• Explicit framing as an outlier in this series — no child protection agency involved

A critical note on this episode: Because the trial is unresolved, this episode does not characterize the strength of either side's case or predict the verdict. The central clinical question — whether Clancy experienced postpartum psychosis — is presented as actively contested in court, not settled. This episode will be revisited once a verdict is reached.

Sources: Publicly reported court testimony from the ongoing trial, filed legal motions, and contemporaneous coverage (Boston-area outlets including WBUR and Boston Globe, national coverage including CNN, ABC News, NBC News, and Fox News, and specialist health reporting from NPR, PBS, and Psychiatric Times).