Lindsay Clancy’s ex-husband details pill use as expert says evidence could shape murder trial

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Prosecutors appeared to begin chipping away at the defense’s portrayal of Lindsay Clancy as overmedicated, walking jurors through nine prescription bottles that still contained many of the pills she had been given.

Patrick Clancy testified Monday that his ex-wife had been prescribed numerous psychiatric medications in the months before the deaths of their three young children. But under questioning from Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham, he acknowledged that several prescriptions had been only partly used.

“So there were a lot of pills prescribed, but not a lot of pills taken. Correct?” Buckingham asked, holding up a bag of prescription medications.

“She knows that she killed these children,” Reddington told jurors. “The issue for consideration is what was going on in that woman’s mind.”

Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, has pleaded not guilty to three counts each of murder and strangulation.

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Judge William Sullivan told jurors that the Commonwealth must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Clancy was criminally responsible when the children were killed.