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Lindsay Clancy’s diary reveals her inner torment before she killed 3 kids: ‘I want to die’

Nypost · · 946 words · By Priscilla DeGregory
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Lindsay Clancy’s diary reveals her inner torment before she killed 3 kids: ‘I want to die’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Lindsay Clancy’s diary reveals her inner torment before she killed 3 kids: ‘I want to die’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on Google Lindsay Clancy’s diary from the months before she strangled her three young kids revealed the dark thoughts and inner torment she struggled with — including once telling her husband, “I want to die” in response to hearing her…

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The 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse detailed in the journal her postpartum depression, anxiety, insomnia and being wracked with guilt over how she was raising 8-month-old Callan.

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Claim 1: “The jury has heard from several toxicologists that testified Clancy had two antidepressants, two anti-psychotics and two anti-anxiety medications in her system after the killings.”
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Claim 2: “The excerpts were read out during the testimony of Massachusetts State Trooper Cory Melo, who collected and reviewed the diary, along with other journals, from Clancy’s home.”
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Multiple reports confirm that Massachusetts State Trooper Cory Melo collected the journals from the home and that excerpts were read during his testimony.
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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy wrote in her journal two months before killing her three young kids that she was "so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone," jurors learned at her murder trial Mo…
https://nypost.com/2026/08/03/us-news/lindsay-clancy-reveale…
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web search NEUTRAL — Read excerpts from Lindsay Clancy’s journal from the months before the killings.Defense and prosecution in the Lindsay Clancy case read her journal aloud to MA State Police Trooper Cory Melo who searc…
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/04/metro/lindsay-clancy-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy trial Day 5: Jury hears excerpts of her journal.State Trooper Cory Melo told prosecutor Shanan Buckingham that he and other detectives searched the Clancy home, recovering a number of i…
https://www.milforddailynews.com/story/news/courts/2026/08/0…
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Claim 3: “Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, wants the jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity, on the grounds that she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis.”
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While the provided evidence mentions the defense's claim of 'extreme postpartum psychosis,' the specific mention of lawyer Kevin Reddington pursuing a 'not guilty by reason of insanity' plea is not explicitly corroborated by multiple independent sources in the provided evidence (the search results for 'Reddington' returned 'The Blacklist' characters). However, the general defense strategy is mentioned.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Blacklist is an American crime drama television series that premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013. Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader), a former government agent turned high-profile criminal,…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — James Joseph "Whitey" Bulger Jr. ( ; September 3, 1929 – October 30, 2018) was an American organized crime boss who led the Winter Hill Gang, an Irish mob group based in the Winter Hill neighborhood o…
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Claim 4: “Clancy then slit her wrists and neck and threw herself from her upstairs bedroom window.”
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Web search results explicitly state that after the killings, she attempted suicide by slitting her wrists and neck and jumping from a second-story window.
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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…
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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…
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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: “She also had two stints in the hospital for suicidal thoughts and had told Patrick and her mother she had thoughts about harming the kids in the months before, according to testimony.”
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Claim 6: “Clancy made entries from Oct. 13, 2022 through Jan. 18, 2023 — five days before she strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan with exercise bands in their Duxbury, Mass., home.”
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The date (January 24, 2023), location (Duxbury, Mass), the children's names and ages (Cora 5, Dawson 3, Callan 8 months), and the method (exercise bands) are consistently reported across Wikipedia and multiple web sources.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On January 24, 2023, American nurse Lindsay Clancy fatally strangled her three young children and attempted suicide at her home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Clancy pleaded not guilty to charges of murde…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_the_Clancy_children
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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 7: “Lindsay Clancy’s diary from the months before she strangled her three young kids revealed the dark thoughts and inner torment she struggled with”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Lindsay Clancy's diary was revealed in court and detailed her mental struggles and 'inner torment' prior to the killings.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Duxbury child killings, also known as the Lindsay Clancy case, took place on January 24, 2023, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, United States, when the three children of the Clancy family, five-year-old…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duxbury_child_killings
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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy's disturbing diary revealed the mother's strange obsession before she strangled her three children to death. Clancy's diary entries were revealed in court this week as her legal defense…
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/lindsay-clancy-diary-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy, 36, has been charged over the deaths of her children, five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan. Credit: Facebook. Now using a wheelchair as a result of her…
https://vt.co/news/us/lindsay-clancy-friend-chilling-text-me…
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Claim 8: “Clancy and Patrick — who has since remarried — filed separate lawsuits against the doctors who treated her in the months before the slayings, claiming they misdiagnosed and overmedicated her.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of irrelevant Wikipedia entries for Lindsay Lohan and the name 'Lindsay.' No evidence was provided regarding lawsuits filed by Lindsay and Patrick Clancy against doctors.
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web search NEUTRAL — Guided by Oprah Winfrey, Lohan was the subject of the docu-series Lindsay (2014). She made her stage debut in the London West End production of Speed-the-Plow (2014), and appeared in the comedy series…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Lohan
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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay (/ ˈlɪnzi /) is both an English and Scottish surname and a given name.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_(name)
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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · Follow live updates from the Lindsay Clancy trial, where the killer mom’s defense grills a psychiatrist who they claim failed to diagnose postpartum psychosis that led Clancy to strangle …
https://nypost.com/2026/08/10/us-news/lindsay-clancy-trial-a…
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Claim 9: “She is now partially paralyzed and appears in court in a wheelchair.”
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Multiple sources confirm she was left partially paralyzed as a result of her suicide attempt and has appeared in court using a wheelchair.
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web search NEUTRAL — She is now partially paralyzed and appears in court in a wheelchair. The excerpts were read out during the testimony of Massachusetts State Trooper Cory Melo, who collected and reviewed the diary, alo…
https://nypost.com/2026/08/05/us-news/lindsay-clancys-diary-…
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web search NEUTRAL — The prosecution has argued Clancy bears criminal responsibility for the killings, describing Clancy as controlling and manipulative. Clancy, a Connecticut native who grew up in Wallingford, was left p…
https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/lindsay-clancy-murder…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy was seen attending her trial in a wheelchair, raising questions about whether she is paralyzed. Here's what to know.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/is-lindsay…
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Claim 10: “The 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse detailed in the journal her postpartum depression, anxiety, insomnia and being wracked with guilt over how she was raising 8-month-old Callan.”
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Multiple sources confirm she was a 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse and that her journal detailed postpartum depression, anxiety, insomnia, and guilt regarding her child Callan.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On January 24, 2023, American nurse Lindsay Clancy fatally strangled her three young children and attempted suicide at her home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Clancy pleaded not guilty to charges of murde…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_the_Clancy_children
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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…
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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 11: “The jury has heard testimony that Clancy saw five different doctors in the four months prior to the killings and had been prescribed 15 different psychiatric medications during that time, with six in her system at the time of the murders.”
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