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.’

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Lindsay Clancy’s MOTHER takes stand at murder trial

Paula Musgrove, Lindsay Clancy’s mother, took the stand on Monday afternoon during day 14 of her daughter’s murder trial.

Expert witness Dr Michael Vulfovich, an emergency doctor at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, was called by the defense to testify about Lindsay Clancy’s injuries.

He said Clancy had ‘full-thickness lacerations’ that ‘were consistent with self-injurious behavior.’

Vulfovich also testified that records showed Clancy went into cardiac arrest and needed two rounds of resuscitation while at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

The judge issued guidance to the jury on expert testimony.

‘It’s completely up to you to accept the testimony,’ the judge said. ‘Expert witnesses do not decide cases, juries do.’

When asked about a message she sent to Clancy on January 22, 2022, saying that it was ‘good to see you doing better,’ Paula said she was trying to encourage her daughter.

‘The texts from me were meant to encourage her because I didn’t think it did any good to discourage her. So the texts were not necessarily what I observed,’ she said.

The texts were ‘not necessarily a representation of what I observed that weekend,’ she said.

‘As a mother I was encouraging her,’ she asserted.

On cross-examination, Lindsay Clancy’s mother Paula Musgrove is asked about text messages she sent to her daughter.

Musgrove has repeatedly said she doesn’t recall some exact texts but that if they are there in the evidence, then it happened.

‘If they were there in the text messages then they were sent yes,’ she said, growing somewhat impatient.

She pointed out that she texted her daughter back and forth daily so she doesn’t recall every exact message all the time.

Under cross-examination from Assistant DA Jennifer Sprague, Paula Musgrove was asked about the day in December when Lindsay Clancy said she had thoughts of harming the children.

Musgrove said that Patrick asked Clancy if she felt she couldn’t be alone with the children but she said no.

She did not think about having her daughter committed or of having her come to stay with her in Connecticut away from the children.

When asked if she was concerned for the safety of the children at that time, she said: ‘No because I was there.’

Court has resumed after the lunch break.

The prosecution is cross examining Lindsay Clancy’s mother, Paula Musgrove.

The Daily Mail revealed that Patrick Clancy has since moved to New York City and remarried after his three children were killed.

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Life of Lindsay Clancy’s husband and new wife as ex faces murder trial

As a Massachusetts courtroom grapples with one of America’s most heartbreaking family tragedies, the father at the center of the case has quietly built a new life hundreds of miles away.

The primal, unearthly scream reverberated all around the packed courtroom.

It was a tortured, guttural wail unlike any sound I have ever heard before.

Over several excruciating seconds, Patrick Clancy continued to scream inaudibly. The only words discernible were cries of ‘Oh my god!’

Then came the four horrifying words that laid bare the unspeakable scene that the father-of-three had just walked into.

‘She killed the kids!’

Inside Plymouth County Superior Court in Massachusetts, the deeply distressing 911 call from the evening of January 24, 2023, visibly took its toll on everyone in the packed courtroom.

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I listened to the Lindsay Clancy 911 call: It’s unlike anything else

Inside Plymouth County Superior Court in Massachusetts, the deeply distressing 911 call from the evening of January 24, 2023, visibly took its toll on everyone in the packed courtroom.

Lindsay Clancy is on trial for the murders of her three children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, at her home in Duxbury in January 2023.

She does not deny she killed them, but has pleaded not guilty and claimed she is not responsible for her actions because she was suffering postpartum psychosis after being prescribed a powerful cocktail of drugs to cope with depression.

The prosecution has argued the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.

If convicted of murder, she faces life in prison without parole.

If found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.

Friends and family are rallying to defend Patrick Clancy from vicious conspiracy theories as his ex-wife Lindsay stands trial for murdering their three young children.

The trial, unfolding in Plymouth Superior Court, has captivated the country and stirred an outpouring of public sympathy for Lindsay, a nurse who many now see less as a killer and more as a casualty of a catastrophic mental health collapse.

That sympathy has curdled into baseless suspicion by some aimed at her ex-husband, Patrick, 39, and his new wife, Dr Rachel Danis, 37, whom he married in April this year.

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Family reveals truth as Patrick Clancy comes under scrutiny

Lindsay Clancy, 36, strangled five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan with exercise bands inside the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023.

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