America’s saddest murder trial: A mother struggling with postpartum depression pleaded with doctors for help before strangling her three children. Now she must fight to prove her illness was to blame

To childhood friends and local teachers, Lindsay Clancy was a loving mother who cared deeply about her three children.

Together with her husband, the Massachusetts family-of-five made up the picture-perfect facade of ‘the all-American family’.

But beneath the shiny surface, Clancy was descending into a pit of despair due to postpartum depression and psychosis.

In a case that shocked America, the former labour and delivery nurse strangled her three children – five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan – before attempting suicide in January 2023.

In a spectacle dubbed ‘America’s saddest murder trial’, the 36-year-old who has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder is

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