Lindsay Clancy spoke for the first time during her trial after she was charged with the murders of her three children.
Clancy, 35, spoke while answering questions from Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan on Tuesday, August 4, which marked the sixth day of her trial.
When asked whether she could stipulate the facts, she said, “Yes, your honor,” according to a livestream by the Associated Press.
By agreeing to the stipulation, Clancy acknowledged she would not be able to contest certain facts in the case moving forward.
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, said that the stipulation involves facts related to the chain of custody of DNA evidence. The decision meant that prosecutors no longer needed to call certain witnesses to testify about the facts that Clancy agreed were true.
The brief comment marks the first time Clancy has spoken since her trial began on July 27. While the case is expected to last several more weeks, her agreement to the stipulation may make the proceedings go faster.
Clancy was charged with the murders of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan — after she strangled them to death at their family’s home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023.
After she killed her kids, Clancy jumped out of a second-story window of the home. She survived the fall, but is now paralyzed from the waist down and uses a wheelchair to get around.
Prior to the killings, Lindsay asked her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, to go pick up food. When he returned home, he found Lindsay after her fall and called 911 for help. It was during that phone call that he realized his children had been strangled.
While Lindsay has not denied killing her children, she has pleaded not guilty. Reddington argued that his client was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was overmedicated at the time of the incident, which may have led to the killings.
Prosecutors have questioned several first responders and medical professionals during the trial, while Patrick, 36, also took the stand to discuss the tragedy.
On July 27, Patrick appeared reserved as Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague shared photographs of the children.
When asked about his kids, he said that Cora liked “princesses” and “had a lot of friends.” He added, “She just liked taking care of people.”
Patrick went on to share that Dawson liked firefighters, trucks and Paw Patrol, while Callan “was just a happy baby.”
If convicted, Lindsay faces life in prison without parole.
