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News August 6, 2026

Lindsay Clancy's friends say she was having 'dark thoughts' prior to killing her children

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Jurors in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy heard from her former father-in-law and close friends on Thursday.

Clancy's former father-in-law, Christopher Clancy, testified that his son and former daughter-in-law appeared to be an "all-American family" and said Lindsay Clancy seemed happy in the weeks before she killed her three children.

Lindsay Clancy's close friends, meanwhile, said she told them she was having "dark thoughts" and felt like a "zombie" in the weeks before the killings.

Lindsay Clancy, 35, has pleaded not guilty to three murder charges in connection with the deaths of her 5-year-old daughter Cora, 3-year-old son Dawson, and infant son Callan at her family's home in Duxbury, a Boston suburb, on Jan. 24, 2023.

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