Trial reveals six psychiatric drugs in mother’s system after killing three children

In a courtroom in Plymouth, Massachusetts, toxicology expert Dr. Justin Brower testified that former labor-and-delivery nurse Lindsay Clancy had six psychiatric drugs in her bloodstream at the time she killed her three children with exercise bands on Jan. 24, 2023. The substances—Ativan, Valium, Seroquel, Lamictol, Remeron and Trazodone—were either within prescribed therapeutic levels or, in the case of Seroquel, double the usual dose but not at a lethal concentration.

The medications had been prescribed by multiple clinicians during a four-month battle with severe postpartum psychosis. After the murders, Clancy attempted to jump from a second-story window and now lives as a paraplegic. Prosecutors allege premeditation, while her lawyer Kevin Reddington will seek a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, citing the drug regimen and auditory hallucinations. Both Clancy and her former husband Patrick have filed lawsuits accusing their doctors of misdiagnosis and overmedication.