Massachusetts mom offers to admit killing 3 children as prosecutors push back on move that could dodge prison

A Massachusetts parent accused of strangling her 3 young children is offering to formally admit she killed them successful a melodramatic ineligible determination that could displacement the absorption of her proceedings to her intelligence authorities — and perchance support her retired of prison.

Lindsay Clancy, who was a Duxbury labour and transportation nurse, is consenting to formally admit successful penning to her relation successful the killings, according to a caller question filed by defence lawyer Kevin Reddington.

The filing, obtained by WCVB5, comes conscionable 1 week aft a justice denied Clancy’s petition to divided her proceedings into abstracted phases that would person divided the question of whether she committed the acts from her intelligence authorities astatine the time.

In asking the tribunal to reconsider, Reddington argued that Clancy’s admittance would permission her intelligence information arsenic the cardinal contented for a assemblage to decide. The filing states that she is consenting to formally admit her engagement successful the behaviour that led to the deaths of her 3 children.

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Lindsay Clancy is wheeled into the Plymouth Superior Court connected Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. Clancy became paraplegic erstwhile she harmed herself and jumped retired of a second-story model astatine her location aft the deaths of her 3 children. She is charged with execution successful the children's deaths. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

If she is yet deemed mentally unfit to basal trial, she could beryllium committed to a unafraid intelligence wellness installation alternatively than look situation nether Massachusetts law.

Prosecutors person not agreed to the proposal. They antecedently opposed the thought of separating the trial, arguing that the grounds presented successful each signifier would beryllium astir identical.

Clancy was indicted successful September 2023 connected 3 counts of execution and strangulation successful transportation with the deaths of her children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan.

Prosecutors allege that Clancy utilized workout bands to strangle the children wrong the family’s Duxbury location connected Jan. 24, 2023, earlier attempting to instrumentality her ain life.

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Exterior presumption of the location of Patrick and Lindsay Clancy successful Duxbury, MA connected Wednesday, February 15, 2023. Lindsay Clancy, 32, allegedly killed their 3 children present earlier attempting to instrumentality her ain beingness connected January 24, 2023. (David McGlynn/Fox News Digital)

Her husband, Patrick Clancy, returned location to what tribunal documents picture arsenic silence. He recovered humor connected the level and an unfastened model earlier discovering his woman extracurricular with cuts to her wrists and neck. She survived the evident termination attempt.

Previously unsealed records, spanning astir 300 pages, item Clancy’s actions successful the hours starring up to the killings.

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According to tribunal documents, she had taken 1 of her children to a pediatrician assignment earlier that time and contacted a CVS pharmacy astir a prescription. She besides ordered takeout from a section edifice and utilized Apple Maps to cipher question clip from her home.

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Lindsay Clancy with 2 of their 3 children successful this undated photo. (Lindsay Marie Clancy/ Facebook)

Investigators accidental she past asked her hubby to prime up the nutrient and medication, leaving her unsocial with the children.

Authorities aboriginal executed aggregate hunt warrants and collected items from the home, including workout bands, medications, physics devices, notebooks, covering and a knife.

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Lindsay Clancy listens to the Plymouth Superior Court proceedings connected Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, from Tewksbury Hospital.  (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Clancy’s defence squad has indicated it volition reason she was suffering from terrible postpartum slump and was overmedicated astatine the clip of the killings.

Court records amusement she had been prescribed a fig of psychiatric medications, including Zoloft, Prozac, Valium, Ativan, Klonopin, Trazodone and Seroquel.

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Her hubby antecedently told a household person helium was acrophobic she whitethorn person been experiencing withdrawal from an anxiousness medicine successful the weeks earlier the tragedy.

Clancy has besides filed a suit against her aesculapian providers, alleging a catastrophic nonaccomplishment successful diagnosing and treating her intelligence wellness condition.

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Lindsay Clancy, charged with the execution of her 3 children successful Duxbury successful 2023, appears successful Plymouth Superior Court connected Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)

Clancy remains paralyzed from the thorax down pursuing her termination attempt, her lawyer has said, and is being held astatine Tewksbury State Hospital wherever she continues to person psychiatric attraction nether changeless supervision. 

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She is expected to acquisition a court-ordered forensic intelligence wellness valuation betwixt April 10 and April 12, with a presumption proceeding scheduled for April 23, according to NBC10 Boston. Clancy’s proceedings is scheduled to statesman July 20 aft being delayed respective times.

Fox News Digital's Sarah Whitten-Rumpf and Greg Wehner contributed to this report.