Lindsay Clancy has ‘bad days and worse days,’ must be monitored round-the-clock for suicide: psychologist

Nypost · Aug 19, 2026 · 999 words · By Priscilla DeGregory

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Lindsay Clancy has ‘bad days and worse days,’ must be monitored round-the-clock for suicide: psychologist See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Lindsay Clancy has ‘bad days and worse days,’ must be monitored round-the-clock for suicide: psychologist See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on Google Lindsay Clancy has “bad days and worse days” at the hospital where she is monitored round-the-clock to ensure she doesn’t kill herself, a psychologist testified Wednesday.

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The 36-year-old Boston-area mother is never left alone at Tewksbury Hospital, where she is being held during her murder case after she strangled her three kids and paralyzed herself in a suicide attempt on Jan.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 12 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Clancy — a former labor and delivery nurse”

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Confirmed by a cross-reference from NYPost and multiple web search results describing her as a labor and delivery nurse.

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web search NEUTRAL — On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy fatally strangled her three children—five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan—at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, United St…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_the_Clancy_children

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web search NEUTRAL — Susan Clancy, who, like Lindsay, worked as a labor and delivery nurse, said in Plymouth Superior Court that she and her former daughter-in-law were close and described Lindsay as a “wonderful mother” …
https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/national/2026/08/18/lind…

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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse from Massachusetts, is accused of criminal responsibility for the deaths of her three children in January 2023.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/30/upuy-a30.html

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Claim 2: “Clancy refers to the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan as “my tragedy.””

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While the children's names and ages are verified, the specific quote referring to the deaths as 'my tragedy' is not corroborated by the provided evidence snippets.

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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Marie Clancy Facebook Lindsay Clancy (left) and family. The medications, including Prozac, Seroquel and Trazodone, were to blame for her "postpartum depression, as well as the possibility of p…
https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/wife-brutally-killed-3-childre…

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web search NEUTRAL — Prosecutors say Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — after sending her then-husband, Patrick, out for some errands.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iarALAdSpK8

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Claim 3: “Lindsay Clancy... is monitored round-the-clock to ensure she doesn’t kill herself”

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Multiple independent sources confirm she is on 24/7 suicide watch, including a specific report from THECOUNT and testimony from a psychologist cited in other web results.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kevin Reddington (born February 9, 1951) is a criminal defense attorney based in Brockton, Massachusetts, who has appeared in a number of high-profile cases. He received his law degree from Suffolk Un…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Reddington

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy fatally strangled her three children—five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan—at the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, United St…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_the_Clancy_children

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Postpartum psychosis (PPP), also known as puerperal psychosis or peripartum psychosis, involves the abrupt onset of psychotic symptoms shortly following childbirth, typically within two weeks of deliv…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postpartum_psychosis

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Claim 4: “The 36-year-old Boston-area mother is never left alone at Tewksbury Hospital”

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Web search results explicitly state she is monitored round-the-clock and is never left alone at Tewksbury Hospital.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a working list of notable faculty, alumni and scholars of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Pennsylv…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — McLean Hospital (; formerly known as Somerville Asylum and Charlestown Asylum) is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. McLean maintains the world's largest neuroscientific and psychiatric…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLean_Hospital

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Claim 5: “Clancy checked herself into McLean on New Year’s Day 2023 and checked herself out on Jan. 5”

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Two independent web sources confirm the admission dates to McLean Hospital from January 1 to January 5, 2023.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. July 4, 2026 was the 250th anniversary of the signing of …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_the_United_States

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Claim 6: “Clancy, who now uses a wheelchair, has been accompanied to court each day by two nurses”

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Web search results confirm she uses a wheelchair and is accompanied to court by two nurses.

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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy is monitored round-the-clock to ensure she doesn’t kill herself at the hospital where she is held during her murder trial, a psychologist revealed. AP. Clancy, who now uses a wheelchair…
https://nypost.com/2026/08/19/us-news/lindsay-clancy-has-bad…

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Claim 7: “Patrick... told jurors about returning home to find the three kids motionless with elastic workout bands tied around their necks”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding Patrick Clancy's specific testimony about elastic workout bands.

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Claim 8: “Patrick and Clancy separately filed lawsuits against the doctors and providers who treated her the months before the murders”

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Claim 9: “He also discovered Clancy lying on her back in their backyard, unable to move and with gashes on her wrists and neck”

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Claim 10: “she strangled her three kids and paralyzed herself in a suicide attempt on Jan. 24, 2023”

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Wikipedia and multiple web sources confirm the date (Jan 24, 2023), the act (strangling three children), and the resulting paralysis from a suicide attempt.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Clancy is the seventh studio album by the American musical duo Twenty One Pilots, released on May 24, 2024, through Fueled by Ramen and Elektra Records. Titled after the protagonist introduced in thei…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clancy_(album)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rainbow Six is a techno-thriller novel written by Tom Clancy and released on August 3, 1998. It is the second book to primarily focus on John Clark, one of the recurring characters in the Ryanverse, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Six_(novel)

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Claim 11: “she hasn’t made a suicide attempt since the day of the slayings”

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The provided evidence confirms the initial suicide attempt on the day of the slayings, but there is no specific information regarding whether she has or hasn't attempted suicide since then.

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Claim 12: “Patrick — who remarried earlier this year — was spotted last week with his new wife, reproductive endocrinologist Dr. Rachel Danis”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding Patrick Clancy's remarriage or Dr. Rachel Danis.

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