'America's saddest murder trial' for nurse who killed her three young children while in throes of post-partum depression begins, with supportive ex-husband set to testify as first witness: Live updates

By RACHEL BOWMAN, US SENIOR NEWS REPORTER and KATRINA SCHOLLENBERGER, US HEAD OF LIVE NEWS and RACHEL SHARP, CRIME CORRESPONDENT Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband, Patrick, is expected to testify on the first day of her murder trial today over the tragic deaths of their three young children. He will take the stand for the prosecution as jurors hear the harrowing 911 call he made to police the night he discovered their children's bodies.  Clancy, who has pleaded not guilty, is on trial for strangling their kids – five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan – using exercise bands while her ex-husband collected takeout food in January 2023. The defense will argue that Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, is not criminally responsible for the killings as she suffered an acute episode of postpartum depression and psychosis at the time of their deaths. The Massachusetts mother had been prescribed thirteen different psychiatric medications in the months leading up to the tragedy.   Prosecutors argue the killings were deliberate and premeditated.  After the murders, Clancy allegedly attempted to take her own life by cutting her wrists and neck before jumping from the second-floor window of the family's Duxbury home. Clancy survived but was left paralyzed from the waist down and now uses a wheelchair. Follow Daily Mail for more updates...  The murder trial for the Massachusetts woman who strangled her three children, then tried to kill herself begins today. Lindsay Clancy, 35, is accused of ruthlessly murdering her three children – Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan – back in January 2023. Although Clancy does not deny killing her children, she has pleaded not guilty and claimed she is not responsible for her actions because she was suffering postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors are planning to argue the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control. A jury is set to hear opening statements Monday in Clancy's murder trial, then her ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, is expected to take the stand. He is both a witness for the prosecution and the defense. Lindsay Clancy's ex-husband, Patrick Clancy, is expected to testify in her defense while she is on trial for murdering their three children. On the day of the killings, Clancy asked Patrick to leave their home to get takeout food and to pick up something at a pharmacy. He returned home and found his wife gravely injured outside as he returned home. While still on the phone to 911, Patrick rushed inside in a frantic search for their three young children, and found the unimaginable scene in the basement. However, the Microsoft employee is expected to testify in support of his ex-wife despite the killings and their divorce. The Daily Mail revealed that Patrick has since remarried and moved to New York City. Patrick's decision to testify in his wife's defense comes as he has also filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing multiple doctors and healthcare providers of overmedicating his wife and causing her to spiral out of control. Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz - the man charging Clancy with murder - has just turned up at Plymouth Superior Court for the first day of Lindsay Clancy’s trial. Around 25 people are lining up outside - mainly members of the media, podcasters, expert witnesses as well as a handful of advocates for women suffering from postpartum mental illness. By contrast, there was only around 10 members of the media attending jury selection last week. Lindsay Clancy's surprising demeanor as potential jurors are reduced to tears in trial over murder of three children. Her murder trial, which could take several weeks, has gripped America. Inside Plymouth Superior Court during the first week of the trial, Clancy sat in the witness box and had to look up at everyone around her – the prosecutors, her lawyer, the judge and the jury pool deciding her fate. The ex-husband of a Massachusetts woman who strangled her three children, then tried to kill herself, asked the judge keep sensitive evidence from public view. Patrick Clancy, who has since remarried, also asked that the judge ban photos of his children, including images taken before their deaths, at the crime scene and during their autopsies, from being shown. 'The potential harmful and everlasting emotional impact to Mr. Clancy and his family of any public dissemination of such graphic and sensational evidence and exhibits related to his three children is immeasurable,' his attorney David Meier explained in the motion. 'Likewise, the disrespect for the dignity and memory of the three child victims that would inherently be occasioned by such dissemination speaks for itself.' Meier noted that Patrick is 'not seeking to close the courtroom.' 'Mr. Clancy seeks a narrowly circumscribed order limiting the recording, display, and disclosure by the media (or any other persons) of certain graphic and sensational items of evidence related to his three young children, which, if disseminated, would only serve to perpetuate the already severe emotional harm to Mr. Clancy and his family,' he wrote. The judge granted his request, so the evidence will be seen and heard in the court room, but not displayed on the live stream. As a Massachusetts courtroom prepares to grapple with one of America's most heartbreaking family tragedies, the father at the center of the case has quietly built a new life hundreds of miles away. When the murder trial of former labor and delivery nurse Lindsay Clancy begins next week, jurors will hear evidence about the deaths of her three young children, a case that has sparked fierce debate over postpartum mental illness and criminal responsibility. But while Lindsay, 35, prepares to fight for her freedom on an insanity defense, the Daily Mail can exclusively reveal that her former husband, Patrick Clancy, 38, has found love again and started over in New York City.