Suicide hotline turned Lindsay Clancy away twice before she killed her own children: Live updates

In the month before she killed her children, Lindsay Clancy sought help from a suicide hotline on two occasions, only to be turned away both times, jurors were told on Wednesday.

She contacted the crisis hotline ASPIRE in December 2022, but was turned away both times, according to her lawyer, Kevin Reddington.

‘Two times she contacted ASPIRE, not once. Both times they told her there was nothing they could do for her?’ Reddington asked mental health counselor Latiesha Dukes.

‘Correct,’ Dukes said, adding that Clancy was turned away because she did not have any plans to act on her suicidal thoughts.

Lindsay Clancy, 36, is accused of murdering her three children – Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan – back in January 2023.

Although Clancy does not deny killing her children, she has pleaded not guilty and claimed she is not responsible for her actions because she was suffering postpartum psychosis.

On the day of the killings, Clancy asked her husband Patrick Clancy to leave their home to get takeout food and to pick up something at a pharmacy.

Clancy strangled the children with exercise bands, then used multiple methods to try to end her own life.

She was paralyzed after falling from the home's second-story window, and is being held at a state hospital.

If you or someone you know needs help, please call or text the confidential 24/7 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline in the US on 988. There is also an online chat available at 988lifeline.org.

Testimony will resume in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial today.

She is sitting at the defense table in a ballerina pink T-shirt. Her parents are here again with a friend and Dr Paul Zeizel.

Outside the courtroom, around 35 members of the public waited to get in the room. Only three of them were men.

Several of the women told the Daily Mail they are 'Camp Lindsay' and want to be there to support her, as women and as mothers.

Lindsay Clancy messaged nurse Rebecca Jollotta about 'intrusive thoughts' and wanting to die the month before she killed her children.

Inside Plymouth County Superior Court on Wednesday morning, Massachusetts State Police Sgt Dan Lawlor was forced to admit that investigators discussed a ‘theory’ that a psychologist hired by the defense had planted the seed of that story in Clancy’s mind.

A few days after the killings, forensic psychologist Dr Paul Zeizel had visited Clancy at Brigham Women’s Hospital where she was receiving treatment.

During that visit, he let Clancy use his cell phone to call Patrick. Clancy told her husband that she had heard voices on the day of the killings.

The officer admitted that one of the state's theories was that Zeizel told Clancy to say that as part of her defense.

The jury and courtroom had to be cleared twice on Wednesday as Lindsay Clancy grew so overcome with emotion hearing the injuries she had inflicted on her own children.

'I can't do this,' Clancy cried out as she sat through the graphic testimony inside Plymouth County Superior Court.