Lindsay Clancy erupts into sobs, yells as medical examiner testifies about autopsy of her daughter: ‘I can’t do it!’

Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial was brought to a standstill Wednesday — as the paralyzed mom whimpered, “I can’t do this” during heartbreaking testimony about her slain 5-year-old daughter’s autopsy.

Clancy broke down sobbing and hyperventilating minutes into testimony from Barbara Olson, a medical examiner in Massachusetts, who went into details of Cora Clancy’s autopsy.

“I can’t do this,” interrupted Clancy, 35.

Dr. Renee Stonebridge speaks from the witness stand during Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts. AP

Judge William Sullivan immediately called a break and let the jury out of the room.

Two women then came into the courtroom well and put their hands on Clancy’s back to console her, as she wept and struggled to catch her breath.

This was the second break Sullivan called Wednesday afternoon following audible crying from Clancy. She cried through the testimony of another medical examiner, Renee Stonebridge, who told the jury she examined certain body parts of Clancy’s three kids.

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Clancy – a former labor and delivery nurse from Duxbury, Mass. – strangled Cora, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan with elastic exercise bands on Jan. 24, 2023. She then immediately sliced her wrists and neck and threw herself out of the window of her second-floor bedroom.

Clancy paralyzed herself in the fall and is now wheelchair bound.

She is not contesting the murders but wants a jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity on the grounds she was in the throes of severe postpartum depression, partially caused by being overmedicated on prescription medications.

Her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has also claimed she heard voices telling her to commit the heinous acts.