Lindsay Clancy sobbed in court, her shoulders shaking, as emergency room doctors described desperate efforts to save her three children on Friday.
Five witnesses testified in the murder trial of Clancy, 35, a former labor and delivery nurse, including ER physicians who treated her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan — who were found strangled in the basement of the family’s Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023.
The testimony followed a visit by jurors to the Duxbury home where Clancy’s three children were found strangled.
Dr. Mark J. Tenerowicz, who was working as emergency physician at Beth Israel Deaconess that night, treated Dawson Clancy, who arrived with a breathing tube and was not breathing on his own, had no pulse, and was not responding to CPR being performed on him.
Tenerowicz observed “some ruptured blood vessels on his face.”
Medical staff worked on Dawson for about 40 minutes before determining that his heart would not start again, and Dawson was declared dead at 7:28 p.m.
Dr. Tenerowicz said, “It did not look like his heart would ever start again.”
Dr. Benjamin Kaufman, an emergency medicine doctor at Beth Israel Deaconess in Plymouth, testified that he treated Callan Clancy, and when the infant arrived, his heart had stopped and CPR was ongoing, but he “was not breathing.”
As soon as Callan came in, Kaufman said staff put in a breathing tube and established an IV, gave him a dose of epinephrine, and looked directly at his heart with an ultrasound, which had stopped beating.
“At that point, we continued compressions, continued giving him breath through the breathing tube,” he said.
After 10 minutes of CPR, breathing tube, and medication to the heart, the heart began beating, but Callan never regained consciousness and at no time did he have any brain function.
Callan was flown by helicopter to Boston Children’s Hospital, but died.
Marcanthony Maffeo, a detective with the Duxbury Police Department who was called to the crime scene, testified that he was sent to South Shore Hospital to meet Lindsay Clancy, who appeared sedated and unconscious with several lacerations to her arms and neck, and Maffeo said he did not have the opportunity to speak with her because she was unresponsive.
Lindsay Clancy appeared to cover her face with her hands during the doctors’ testimony.
Clancy doesn’t deny that she strangled her three children with exercise bands before cutting herself and jumping from a second-story window in a suicide attempt that left her paralyzed.
Prosecutors say the murders were calculated, while Clancy’s defense argues that she was overmedicated and suffering from extreme postpartum psychosis.
In the viral moment that forms the backbone of this trial,
jurors visited the Duxbury home where Clancy’s three children were found strangled on Jan. 24, 2023.
Patrick Clancy, Clancy’s ex-husband, had testified for two days earlier in the week about his ex-wife’s struggle with mental illness and the jury heard his distressing 911 call on the night of the murders.
After listening to the call, Patrick Clancy was led out of the courtroom midway through testimony on Wednesday, sparing him the trauma of hearing the 911 recording, and Lindsay Clancy sobbed uncontrollably in her wheelchair.
The trial will resume on Monday, said Plymouth Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan.