Lindsay Clancy trial: FBI psychiatrist who rejected her ‘voice’ account to face cross-examination
Lindsay Clancy trial: FBI psychiatrist who rejected her ‘voice’ account faces cross-examination
FBI psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff, who told jurors he doesn’t believe a voice drove Lindsay Clancy to kill her children, faces cross-examination Wednesday. “Committing the act is not curative of the voice. I’ve not ever seen that,” he testified. Closing arguments are expected Thursday.
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Lindsay Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, said as he left the courthouse on Wednesday that he was hoping for the best as they prepare for closing arguments and jury deliberations on Thursday.
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He said he hopes to convey on Thursday that Clancy is “just such a marvelous, sweet, innocent person. She’s just amazing and so strong and just trying so hard to get up from.”
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Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. She does not dispute killing them but says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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Prosecutors contend the evidence shows that she planned the killings and knew what she was doing.
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The jury will also be able to consider a lesser charge of manslaughter, which Reddington called a “positive development.”
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Support for Clancy has been a surprise, he said: “I don’t think anybody expected that it would strike such a chord.”
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Closing arguments set for Thursday in Lindsay Clancy trial as prosecution rests rebuttal
The prosecution rested its rebuttal case Wednesday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, setting up closing arguments Thursday before the case goes to the jury.
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The state’s final rebuttal witness was FBI psychiatrist Dr. Gregory Saathoff, who testified he does not believe a voice drove Clancy to kill her three children. The defense’s experts have testified she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis and is not criminally responsible.
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Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. She does not dispute killing them but says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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Defense challenges FBI expert claim Lindsay Clancy ‘misled’ her family before killings
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The defense pushed back Wednesday on a prosecution expert’s claim that Lindsay Clancy “misled” her family about her mental state before she killed her three children.
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Dr. Gregory Saathoff testified that Clancy’s text messages in the days before the killings, including after her parents visited, did not convey her suicidal state of mind. But defense attorney Kevin Reddington countered that her parents had stayed at the home for days, and questioned whether a photo Clancy sent her mother of the children by a snowman was really inconsistent with postpartum illness.
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Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. She does not dispute killing them but says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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Prosecution psychiatrist says severe insomnia can lead to psychosis
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The prosecution’s FBI psychiatrist acknowledged on cross-examination in the Lindsay Clancy trial on Wednesday that severe insomnia can lead to psychosis.
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Pressing Dr. Gregory Saathoff on his experience with terrorism, defense attorney Kevin Reddington got him to agree that sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture, and that serious insomnia “can actually lead to psychosis.” “Yes, it’s possible,” Saathoff said. Clancy’s severe sleep deprivation has been central to her defense.
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Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. She does not dispute killing them but says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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FBI psychiatrist says financial strain weighed on Lindsay Clancy before killings
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An FBI psychiatrist testified Wednesday that financial pressure was among the stressors weighing on Lindsay Clancy before she killed her three children.
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Dr. Gregory Saathoff said Clancy, a labor and delivery nurse, had repeatedly delayed her return to work because she did not feel mentally healthy enough, and that she listed finances as a stressor in her own records. Believing “her brain had been damaged” and that she could no longer do the work she loved or help support her family, Saathoff said, left her with a sense of being a burden.
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Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. She does not dispute killing them but says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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Lindsay Clancy trial: FBI psychiatrist who doubts her ‘voice’ account faces cross-examination
FBI psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff is expected to return to the stand Wednesday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, facing cross-examination after telling jurors he does not believe a voice drove her to kill her three children.
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Saathoff, a senior psychiatrist for the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit who said he spent about 11 hours interviewing Clancy, called key parts of her account of a command hallucination unusual. “Committing the act is not curative of the voice. I’ve not ever seen that,” he testified.
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Clancy faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, Cora, Dawson and Callan. She does not dispute killing them but says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.
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Prosecutor in infamous killer mom case says women jurors may bring ‘strange twist’ to Clancy verdict
A South Carolina lawmaker who prosecuted Susan Smith in her infamous double-murder case says the women on Lindsay Clancy’s jury could prove to be a “strange twist,” and may be less sympathetic to her than many assume.
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Clancy, 36, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of her children — Cora, Dawson and Callan, all younger than 6 — who were discovered strangled at the family’s home in January 2023.
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Her defense attorney says she was experiencing postpartum psychosis at the time she killed her children.
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Testimony is expected to finish on Wednesday, with closing arguments anticipated for Thursday, after which the case will go to the jury. The panel seated for the trial is made up of 12 women and six men, but only 12 of them will deliberate, the rest serve as alternates and will be dismissed before deliberations begin.
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