By Daily Mail (U.S.) | Created at 2026-08-18 13:13:59 | Updated at 2026-08-18 14:20:20
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Lindsay Clancy's sister testified that she had a 'gut feeling' something was off with her the month before she killed her three children.
Her sister, Allison Ozga, told the jury that in December 2022 Clancy told her: 'I'm in a really tough spot.'
'I had this gut feeling that something was off and that she was really struggling,' Ozga said.
However, on cross-examination, Ozga, a licensed social worker and mandated reporter, was asked whether she ever felt concerned enough to report Clancy.
Ozga said no.
Clancy, 36, is on trial for the murders of her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, at her home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 2023.
She strangled her children with exercise bands and then allegedly attempted to kill herself, but her efforts failed and left her paralyzed and in a wheelchair for life.
The prosecution rested its case against Clancy on Monday after using the first three weeks of the trial to argue the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.
Clancy has admitted to killing her children but pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of insanity, citing postpartum psychosis, and is also suing her former healthcare providers for medical malpractice and negligence.
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Lindsay Clancy’s sister recounts ‘gut feeling’ before tragic killings
Lindsay Clancy's sister, Allison Ozga, testified that in December 2022 Clancy told her, ‘I’m in a really tough spot.’
‘I had this gut feeling that something was off and that she was really struggling, and I asked her if she was safe,’ Ozga said while on the stand Monday. ‘She said “yes” at that point.”
She said at Thanksgiving 2022, Clancy 'did not look good; she didn't seem very energized. It definitely seemed off from how I'd seen her in the past.'
By December, Ozga said, 'She reported her mood was worsening, as she described it as depression, she was having more suicidal thoughts, insomnia continued to be an issue. She was really not feeling like herself.
‘I believe the very end of the month, she told me she had had suicidal ideation every day for a month.’
Ozga testified that at Cora's birthday party in January it looked like Clancy was 'going through the motions' and 'still struggling.'
‘I think she looked like she was going through the motions of putting together a birthday party for her daughter. But she looked tired. She looked like she was still struggling.’
On cross-examination, the prosecution asked Ozga, a licensed social worker and mandated reporter, whether she ever felt concerned enough to report Clancy.
Ozga said no.
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Patrick Clancy's parents arrive at court
Patrick Clancy’s parents, Sue and Chris Clancy, are waiting in the corridor outside the courtroom.
Sue is expected to be called as a defense witness today.
This marks the first time she has attended the trial.
Chris was at the courthouse for one day earlier in the trial, when the prosecution called him as a witness.
Clancy was not aware of Andrea Yates case, according to colleague
Margaret Hamp recounted a time when Lindsay Clancy was working when a patient was admitted who had plans to harm herself while pregnant.
'We had a conversation. Lindsay was brand new; it was the summer she had just started, and we had a conversation about mental health in pregnancy and postpartum,' Hamp said.
'I asked her if she ever heard of the Andrea Yates case, and she hadn't.
'I explained that to her, and she cried, and she said, "How could a mother hurt her children.”’
Clancy's case has been compared to Yates.
Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub in Texas in 2001. Her attorneys said she suffered from postpartum psychosis and believed killing her children would save them from hell.
Her initial murder conviction was overturned, and in a retrial she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state mental hospital.
Clancy confessed to having thoughts of harming the kids, her mother said
Paula Musgrove testified that her daughter, Lindsay Clancy, previously told her and Patrick that she had thoughts of harming the kids.
In December 2022, Clancy's mom told the jury that there was a moment where Clancy said she had to tell her and Patrick something.
She was very nervous, she said. 'She told us she had thoughts of harming the children,' she testified.
Musgrove said she began to notice a change in Clancy around October 2022. She added that Clancy did not appear to improve through November and December.
In one text exchange from October, Clancy asked: 'Mom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit. I'm really sick.
'Something is wrong. I had horrible insomnia all night, and I just don't know how I'm going to get through the day.'
Clancy continued: 'I started taking the medicine my doctor prescribed for anxiety, and I think it's made things worse. It's just really scary, and I don't want to be alone.'
