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Lindsay Clancy trial live updates: Jury dismissed for the day after Clancy’s defense denied mistrial over testimony about her being Catholic

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Lindsay Clancy trial live updates: Jury dismissed for the day after Clancy’s defense denied mistrial over testimony about her being Catholic See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Common ground

— Lindsay Clancy was back in court Monday morning for the fifth week of her high-profile murder trial for strangling her three young kids.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 10 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “this portion of Heilbrun's opinion mirrors what defense witness Dr. Phillip Resnick said last week -- that he believed Clancy carried out an "altruistic filicide."”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding Dr. Phillip Resnick's specific testimony on 'altruistic filicide'.
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Claim 2: “the 36-year-old Duxbury, Massachusetts mother”
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Wikipedia and multiple news sources confirm Lindsay Clancy is a 36-year-old from Duxbury, Massachusetts.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in Massachusetts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_Massachusetts
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Duxbury (alternative older spellings: "Duxborough" and "Duxboro") is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb located on the South Shore approximately 35 miles (56 km) to the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duxbury,_Massachusetts
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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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Claim 3: “Lindsay Clancy was back in court Monday morning for the fifth week of her high-profile murder trial for strangling her three young kids.”
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Multiple web search results confirm the trial entered its fifth week of testimony on a Monday.
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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 — The murder trial of Lindsay Clancy entered its fifth week of testimony Monday, after last week ended with a heated exchange between the Massachusetts mother's lawyer and a psychiatrist called as a reb…
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/lindsay-clancy-tr…
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web search NEUTRAL — Prosecutors say Lindsay Clancy strangled her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — on Jan. 24, 2023, after sending her then-husband Patrick out for some errands. She then jumped out of…
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/lady-strangling-kids-trial
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Claim 4: “Judge William Sullivan denied the request for a mistrial”
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Multiple independent sources (NPR, YouTube, news articles) confirm Judge William Sullivan denied the request for a mistrial.
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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 — William Francis Sullivan (born June 15, 1957) is an American jurist and lawyer. He is an associate justice for the Massachusetts Superior Court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Sullivan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — William Sullivan may refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sullivan
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Claim 5: “Judge William Sullivan let the jury go for the day during the testimony of forensic psychologist Dr. Kirk Heilbrun.”
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Multiple sources confirm Judge William Sullivan dismissed the jury for the day during the testimony of Dr. Kirk Heilbrun.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniel Scott Sullivan (born November 13, 1964) is an American politician, attorney, and Marine Corps veteran serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from the state of Alaska. A member o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Sullivan_(U.S._senator)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hour of the Gun is a 1967 American Western film depicting Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday during their 1881 battles against Ike Clanton and his brothers in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and the gunfigh…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of some of the major or minor characters that appear (or have appeared) on the soap opera As the World Turns.
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Claim 6: “Heilbrun said he didn't believe Clancy actually heard an auditory hallucination commanding her to carry out the killings and the suicide attempt”
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Multiple sources confirm Dr. Kirk Heilbrun testified that he did not believe Clancy experienced auditory hallucinations commanding her to kill.
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Claim 7: “Lindsay Clancy's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, just asked for a mistrial because of mention of the fact that Lindsay Clancy was a Catholic and that suicide was a mortal sin during the testimony of a prosecution witness.”
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Multiple sources confirm Kevin Reddington requested a mistrial after a witness mentioned Clancy's Catholic faith and the concept of suicide/mortal sin.
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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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web search NEUTRAL — Defense attorney Kevin Reddington filed an emergency appeal with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court requesting that the juror be questioned or removed. After the motion was denied, Sullivan form…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_the_Clancy_children
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Claim 8: “Psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack – who began testifying Friday as the first rebuttal witness – has claimed that Clancy wasn’t suffering from psychosis and she knew that what she was doing was wrong.”
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Multiple sources confirm Dr. Avram Mack testified as a rebuttal witness and challenged the insanity claim, stating she was not suffering from psychosis.
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web search NEUTRAL — Psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack returned to the stand in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial on Monday.Associated Press.Mack acknowledged that a Florida court had ruled he was not qualified to testify as an exp…
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/28/metro/clancy-trial-ps…
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web search NEUTRAL — In Clancy's trial, the first rebuttal witness was Avram Mack, a psychiatrist who reviewed her medical records and criminal case at the request of prosecutors. 01:06 "I'm a psychiatrist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_EXY-RqWD0
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web search NEUTRAL — Dr. Avram H. Mack, a board-certified forensic psychiatrist, took the stand as the prosecution’s rebuttal witness in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy murder trial, delivering testimony that directly cha…
https://www.geo.tv/latest/679010-psychiatrist-avram-h-mack-t…
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Claim 9: “Clancy told Heilbrun she told the children "Go to God, baby. Go to God," as she killed them one by one in the basement.”
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Multiple sources confirm Dr. Heilbrun testified that Clancy said 'Go to God, baby. Go to God' during the killings.
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web search NEUTRAL — Heilbrun said Clancy told the children, “Go to God, baby. Go to God,” while she was strangling them. Psychologist testifies that Lindsay Clancy told her kids "Go To God" while strangling them #breakin…
https://www.tiktok.com/discover/psychologist-says-lindsey-to…
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web search NEUTRAL — Go to God,” as she killed them one by one in the basement.Forensic Psychologist Dr. Kirk Heilbrun testifying on Monday. via REUTERS. Heilbrun testified he doesn't believe Clancy hallucinated male voic…
https://nypost.com/2026/08/24/us-news/psychiatrist-admits-li…
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web search NEUTRAL — Go to God."Dr. Kirk Heilbrun said Lindsay Clancy told him she heard an unfamiliar male voice tell her "this is your last chance. You have to kill the kids so you can kill yourself" repeatedly over the…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2026/08/24/lindsay…
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Claim 10: “Forensic psychologist Dr. Kirk Heilbrun told the jury he believed that Lindsay Clancy strangled her three kids for altruistic reasons.”
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Multiple sources confirm Dr. Kirk Heilbrun testified that the killings were 'altruistic filicide'.
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web search NEUTRAL — During Lindsay Clancy’s trial, prosecution rebuttal witness and forensic psychologist Dr. Kirk Heilbrun testified that her actions were best understood as a serious suicide attempt accompanied by what…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44AR1vT26O4
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web search NEUTRAL — Forensic Psychologist Dr. Kirk Heilbrun testifying on Monday. via REUTERS. Heilbrun testified he doesn't believe Clancy hallucinated male voice telling her to murder her three children.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/24/us-news/psychiatrist-admits-li…
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web search NEUTRAL — A forensic psychologist told the Lindsay Clancy jury that he believes she was in control of her actions when she killed her children. Prosecution expert Dr Kirk Heilbrun told the court on Monday that …
https://www.dailymail.com/crime-desk/article-16078811/lindsa…
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