Lindsay Clancy trial live updates from Aug. 11: Nurse practitioner suspected ‘manic’ mom might’ve been bipolar, but never diagnosed it

Nypost · Aug 11, 2026 · 783 words · By Priscilla DeGregory

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11: Nurse practitioner suspected ‘manic’ mom might’ve been bipolar, but never diagnosed it See more of our coverage in your search results.

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A nurse practitioner who treated a “manic” Lindsay Clancy told a Massachusetts jury Tuesday that she suspected the struggling mother had bipolar disorder — but never diagnosed her with it.

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Claim 1: “Jollotta prescribed Clancy a slew of medications, while Clancy was also getting meds from a psychiatrist.”

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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm the specific arrangement of receiving medications from both Jollotta and a separate psychiatrist simultaneously.

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Claim 2: “Clancy was also given medications during a five-day stint at mental institutions McLean Hospital in early January 2023”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

While evidence mentions McLean Hospital in the context of a recommendation, there is no specific evidence provided in the results confirming a five-day stint in early January 2023.

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Claim 3: “Nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta, who treated Lindsay at South Shore's clinic, said that was the last the clinic heard from her.”

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Claim 4: “Clancy, who turned 36 Tuesday, and her ex have separately sued doctors and hospitals that treated her”

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While the evidence confirms Lindsay Clancy's age (36) and the charges against her, the specific detail that both she and her ex-husband have filed separate lawsuits against doctors/hospitals is not explicitly corroborated across the provided evidence snippets, though the trial context involves medical negligence arguments.

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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 — On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy 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 States. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_the_Clancy_children

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tom Clancy's Op Center (stylized as OP Center) is a 114-minute action-political thriller film which was edited-down from a 170-minute, 4-hour television miniseries of the same name that aired in two p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy's_Op_Center_(film)

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Claim 5: “Clancy sought out a specialized outpatient program in Rhode Island that Jollotta "strongly" recommended — but was denied admission because she was on so many meds.”

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Web search results indicate that Clancy was recommended to a program at Women and Infants Hospital but was instead directed to a general facility like McLean, supporting the claim that she was denied the specialized admission.

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web search NEUTRAL — Clancy later told Jollotta over MyChart that Women and Infants had instead recommended she seek treatment at a general mental health facility like McLean, rather than one specialising in postpartum ca…
https://www.unilad.com/news/crime/lindsay-clancy-trial-lates…

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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy trial: Duxbury woman expressed intrusive thoughts of killing herself. Clancy spent her 36th birthday in court. Lindsay Clancy, and her attorney, Kevin Reddington, listened to testimony …
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/11/metro/lindsay-clancy-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Patrick Clancy called the perinatal program where Lindsay Clancy had been treated for postpartum on Dec. 30, 2022, about the fact she was checking into a mental institution.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/11/us-news/lindsay-clancy-trial-a…

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Claim 6: “The former labor and delivery nurse is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and faces life in prison without parole if convicted.”

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Multiple sources (Wikipedia, AOL) confirm she is a former labor and delivery nurse and is charged with three counts of first-degree murder.

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web search NEUTRAL — DUXBURY, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy lay paralyzed in a hospital bed on Tuesday afternoon, occasionally blinking or shutting her eyes, unable to do anything but listen as lawyers told two narratives about …
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/08/health/lindsay-clancy-chi…

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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy. Charges. Three counts of murder, three counts of strangulation.Lindsay Clancy had worked for nine years as a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duxbury_child_killings

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web search NEUTRAL — The 36-year-old is charged with three counts of first-degree murder over the deaths of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan in 2023.The prosecution alleges the former labour and deliv…
https://www.aol.com/articles/us-woman-killed-her-children-15…

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Claim 7: “Clancy told her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, and the NP that she had “persistent and intrusive thoughts of suicide” just one month before strangling their three young children in January 2023.”

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Web search results explicitly state that Jollotta testified Clancy reported experiencing suicidal thoughts, and other reports link these thoughts to the period leading up to the January 2023 events.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Clancy Grandy (born December 27, 1990, in Burlington, Ontario) is a Canadian curler originally from Ontario. She is currently a performance coach with British Curling.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clancy_Grandy

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Claim 8: “A nurse practitioner who treated a “manic” Lindsay Clancy told a Massachusetts jury Tuesday that she suspected the struggling mother had bipolar disorder — but never diagnosed her with it.”

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Multiple web search results confirm that nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta testified she suspected bipolar disorder but that Patrick Clancy insisted she did not have it, and the normalized claim regarding the lack of formal diagnosis is supported by the trial testimony reports.

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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy Trial: Nurse Says She Suspected Bipolar Disorder Before Children’s Deaths | AB1G. DRM News and DWS News. 573 27 min ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYJlYZTc8Do

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web search NEUTRAL — She testified she had treated at least 50 people with postpartum issues during her residency. Tufts’ and Clancy’s 14 visits were all conducted via telemedicine, and this trial is the first time they h…
https://www.wfsb.com/2026/08/12/lindsay-clancy-repeatedly-as…

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Claim 9: “Patrick Clancy called the perinatal program where Lindsay Clancy had been treated for postpartum on Dec. 30, 2022, about the fact she was checking into a mental institution.”

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Claim 10: “Clancy... kill Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in the basement of the family’s Duxbury, Mass. home.”

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Wikipedia and a cross-reference from Nypost explicitly confirm the names, ages of the children (Cora 5, Dawson 3, Callan 8 months), the location (basement of Duxbury, Mass. home), and the method (strangulation).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of American films released in 2008.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_2008

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Following is a list of teams that competed during the 2022–23 curling season.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_teams_in_the_2022–23_c…

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Claim 11: “"Did you ever have any concerns that [Clancy] was suffering from postpartum psychosis?" ... "I did not," Jollotta responded.”

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AOL reports specifically that Jollotta testified she did not have concerns that Clancy was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jollotta testified that while treating Clancy, she didn’t have concerns that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis. She also said Clancy had reported experiencing suicidal thoughts but did not h…
https://www.aol.com/articles/why-prosecutors-lindsay-clancy-…

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web search NEUTRAL — The nurse, Rebecca Jollotta, testified Clancy repeatedly attempted to change psychiatric medications despite acknowledging that switching drugs would likely impact her mental health.
https://abcnews.com/GMA/News/feel-die-lindsay-clancys-nurse-…

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Claim 12: “The defense argues Clancy is not criminally responsible for their deaths and should be found not guilty by reason of insanity.”

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Both a cross-reference from Nypost and a report from The Guardian confirm the defense is seeking a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity.

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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy’s mental wellbeing will be a central question during her trial for strangling her three children to death.If the defense succeeds, a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity is found…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/lindsay-clan…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jurors have reached a verdict in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial. Follow the Post’s live updates for the latest news, reactions and more.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/28/us-news/lindsay-clancy-trial-j…

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web search NEUTRAL — Verdict prediction for Lindsay Clancy first-degree murder trial and postpartum psychosis defense — analysis of 'not guilty by reason of insanity' claim.
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/not-guilty-by-reasons-of-ins…

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