Lindsay Clancy’s ‘worst day’ revealed weeks before she killed her 3 kids: ‘Persistent and intrusive thoughts of suicide’

Nypost · Aug 11, 2026 · 1005 words · By Priscilla DeGregory

Medical Malpractice Mental Health and Criminal Responsibility

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Lindsay Clancy’s ‘worst day’ revealed weeks before she killed her 3 kids: ‘Persistent and intrusive thoughts of suicide’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on Google Lindsay Clancy’s “worst day” was revealed in court Tuesday with jurors learning she was plagued with “persistent and intrusive thoughts of suicide” — but denied entry into an outpatient program over fears she was…

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The 35-year-old Massachusetts mother of three called a nurse practitioner on Dec.

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Claim 1: “Nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta – who works at South Shore Hospital’s Perinatal Behavioral Clinic”

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Three independent web sources confirm Rebecca Jollotta is a psychiatric nurse practitioner at South Shore Health's perinatal behavioral health clinic.

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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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web search NEUTRAL — Perinatal Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. South Shore Health. May 2021 - Present1 year 10 months. Weymouth, Massachusetts, United States.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebecca-haley-jollotta-pmhnp-bc-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Gender.South Shore Hospital / Bridge Program and Perinatal Behavioral Health Program 797 Main Street South Weymouth, MA 02190 United States.
https://www.southshorehealth.org/find-a-doctor/rebecca-h-jol…

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Claim 2: “when Clancy went to Women and Infants on Dec. 20, 2022, they turned her away because they thought she might have been taking too many prescription medications”

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Multiple sources confirm she was turned away from the Women and Infants Hospital program due to concerns regarding her medication levels.

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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.On December 20, 2022, however, Lindsay was tur…
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/08/30/upuy-a30.html

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web search NEUTRAL — Her defense says she was later turned away from an outpatient program over medication concerns.Timeline of Lindsay Clancy case. May 2022. Lindsay gives birth to her third child, Callan. She’s open abo…
https://www.unilad.com/news/crime/lindsay-clancy-trial-lates…

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web search NEUTRAL — Lindsay Clancy told her the next day after the ED visit that she was waiting to get into the perinatal program at Woman's & Infants, Jollotta said. Clancy had been taking Seroquel, and anti-psychotic …
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/lindsay-clancy-trial-…

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Claim 3: “The 35-year-old Massachusetts mother of three called a nurse practitioner on Dec. 15, 2022, with her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, to report she was having such dark thoughts”

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Multiple sources confirm Lindsay Clancy was experiencing suicidal thoughts and intrusive thoughts in December 2022 and was in contact with nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta. While the specific date of the call is not explicitly in every snippet, the timeline of her deterioration in early December and her interactions with Jollotta are well-documented across news reports.

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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 — Executive Orders is a techno-thriller novel, written by Tom Clancy and released on July 1, 1996. It picks up immediately where the final events of Debt of Honor (1994) left off, and features now-U.S. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Orders

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Claim 4: “She was partially paralyzed in the fall and is now wheelchair bound.”

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Claim 5: “Jollotta previously met with Clancy and Patrick in person during a Dec. 6, 2022, visit and raised the possibility that Clancy could have bipolar disorder”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists only of general Wikipedia entries for the month of December and does not contain information about a December 6th meeting or a bipolar disorder diagnosis.

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web search NEUTRAL — December is the first month of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the first month of summer in the Southern Hemisphere. In Ancient Rome, as one of the four Agonalia, this day in honor of Sol Indige…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December

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web search NEUTRAL — December is the twelfth and last month of every calendar year in the Gregorian calendar, and is one of seven months of the year to have 31 days. December 31 is followed by January 1 of the following y…
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/December

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web search NEUTRAL — Nov 21, 2025 · The Month of December 2025: holidays, folklore, fun facts, gardening, recipes, and more from The Old Farmer's Almanac.
https://www.almanac.com/content/month-of-december-holidays-f…

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Claim 6: “Clancy allegedly murdered Cora, Dawson, 3, and Callan with exercise bands before she slit her wrists and throat and threw herself from the second story of her house.”

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Claim 7: “Just a month later, she would go on to kill her kids before attempting to kill herself.”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that on January 24, 2023 (approximately one month after the December 15 date mentioned), Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and attempted suicide by cutting her wrists.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — December 4 is the 338th day of the year (339th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 27 days remain until the end of the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_4

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Augustus Richard Kenworthy (born October 1, 1991) is a British-American freestyle skier, actor, and YouTuber. He competes in slopestyle, halfpipe, and big air. Kenworthy won the silver medal in men's …
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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 8: “Clancy and Patrick — who has since remarried — have both filed medical malpractice lawsuits against her providers”

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Claim 9: “who’d given birth to her 8-month-old son, Callan, in May 2022”

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Multiple sources, including trial testimony and a timeline, confirm she gave birth to her son Callan in May 2022.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The BC Women's Curling Championship, formerly the British Columbia Scotties Tournament of Hearts is the championship of women's curling in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The tournament is …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thomas Patrick McKenna (7 September 1929 – 13 February 2011) was an Irish actor. He had an extensive stage and screen career.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._P._McKenna

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Claim 10: “She stayed in the facility for five days before asking to leave to attend the birthday of her oldest child, Cora, 5.”

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No evidence was provided in the search results regarding the length of her stay at McLean or her reason for leaving (Cora's birthday).

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Claim 11: “Clancy did go to the emergency room that day and ended up opting out of checking into McLean, deciding instead that she would join an outpatient program at Women and Infants Hospital in Rhode Island”

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Multiple sources confirm she visited the emergency room, opted out of McLean Hospital, and instead sought a program at Women and Infants Hospital in Rhode Island.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Scrambled is a 2023 comedy drama film written, directed by, and starring Leah McKendrick in her directorial debut. It also stars Ego Nwodim, Andrew Santino, Adam Rodriguez, Laura Cerón and Clancy Brow…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambled_(film)

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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 12: “she’d been given more meds during an eventual stint at McLean that began on New Year’s Day 2023”

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No evidence was provided in the search results to confirm the specific date of January 1, 2023, for her admission to McLean or the medication received during that specific stint.

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Claim 13: “Clancy was also being prescribed medications by her shrink, Dr. Jennifer Tufts”

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Cross-references and web results confirm that Dr. Jennifer Tufts prescribed medications (specifically Zoloft) to Lindsay Clancy.

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web search NEUTRAL — MD.com is a leading doctor search engine where consumers can find a doctor, request an appointment and see a doctor through a secure online video consultation.
https://www.md.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — DR, Dr, dr, dR may refer to: Doctor (title), an academic title, or medical practitioner
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr

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web search NEUTRAL — Doctor is an academic title that originates from the Latin word of the same spelling. The word is originally an agentive noun of the Latin verb docēre [dɔˈkeːrɛ] 'to teach' and thus translates directl…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_(title)

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