Overview
- The defense rested its case on August 21 after calling forensic psychiatrists who testified that Clancy experienced command hallucinations and severe postpartum psychosis that left her unable to resist orders to kill her children.
- Defense expert Dr. Phillip Resnick told jurors that Clancy reported an external voice commanding her to kill the children and that she was ‘clearly psychotic’ during the January 24, 2023 killings.
- Prosecution rebuttal witness Dr. Avram Mack testified that Clancy recalled hearing a male voice saying she should kill the children so she could kill herself and that she said “go to God” while strangling them, arguing the killings were methodical enough to show criminal responsibility.
- Prosecutors have also relied on extensive scene, autopsy and phone/device forensics and testimony that Clancy arranged for her husband to leave the home as part of an alleged plan to create an opportunity to kill the children.
- The trial has drawn large public demonstrations and wide online debate and has prompted scrutiny of telemedicine prescribing, rapid medication changes and gaps in perinatal mental‑health care that could shape later policy and civil claims.