Lindsay Clancy sobs as jurors view autopsy photos of the youngest of her 3 children she killed

(AP) — Lindsay Clancy sobbed uncontrollably Thursday as jurors viewed autopsy photos of the youngest of her three children who she strangled in 2023, until the court eventually had to take an unscheduled break.In the second week of her Massachusetts murder trial, prosecutors brought more friends, a former work colleague and her former father-in-law to testify about Clancy's mental and emotional state. For the most part, they said she was open about her postpregnancy mental health struggles but seemed like a loving mother who cared for her kids.The prosecution wants to show the 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse acted intentionally and should be held criminally responsible, while Clancy's defense says she had postpartum psychosis, a rare and dangerous psychiatric condition that affects women's hold on reality after childbirth.___EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S.

is available by calling or texting 988.___Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, who she killed on Jan. 24, 2023 after sending her husband out on errands. Prosecutors say this was a ruse to get her husband out of the house.

She remains paralyzed from the waist down after jumping from the home's second-story window that night.A friend recalls a difficult reunion after the killingsNone of the witnesses Thursday testified they heard Clancy express suicidal or homicidal thoughts. However, after the birth of her third child, she told them of trouble sleeping and harmful side effects from medications. She text-messaged one childhood friend to say medication had “caused her to have some dark thoughts.”Amy Bevins visited Clancy in a rehabilitation facility after the killings.

The two made small talk, she said, and played a game. When asked by prosecutors if Clancy brought up her children or cried about them, she said she had not.But on cross-examination by Clancy's defense attorney, Bevins acknowledged the meeting was “awkward” and that Clancy's sister had said not to bring up the kids.Lindsay Clancy's former father-in-law takes the standChristopher Clancy testified that he knew his then-daughter-in-law was having issues. At one point, he suggested the grandchildren stay with him and his wife, but his s…

In the second week of her Massachusetts murder trial, prosecutors brought more friends, a former work colleague and her former father-in-law to testify about Clancy’s mental and emotional state. The prosecution wants to show the 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse acted intentionally and should be held criminally responsible, while Clancy’s defense says she had postpartum psychosis, a rare and dangerous psychiatric condition that affects women’s hold on reality after childbirth. ___ EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide.

is available by calling or texting 988. ___ Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, who she killed on Jan. A friend recalls a difficult reunion after the killings None of the witnesses Thursday testified they heard Clancy express suicidal or homicidal thoughts.