Psychologists testify at Lindsay Clancy murder trial on mental state

At the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, concluding on 2026-08-26, FBI psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff testified he did not believe she heard a voice during the killings, contradicting her postpartum psychosis defense. An earlier expert similarly doubted her hallucination claim.

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Lindsay Clancy trial: psychologist says he doubts claim she was hallucinating

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Dr Kirk Heilbrun says he believes Clancy took children’s lives so they wouldn’t ‘suffer’ after she killed herself With just days to go before the murder trial for Lindsay Clancy concludes, a forensic psychologist called by the prosecution testified on Monday that he did not believe she was experiencing acute psychosis when she killed her three children. Kirk Heilbrun, who reportedly performed psyc

Final witness in Lindsay Clancy trial says he doesn’t believe she heard a voice during killings

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FBI psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff says he’s treated only two women with postpartum psychosis, both decades earlier The Lindsay Clancy trial was heading for closing arguments Wednesday, as a final witness for the prosecution laid out that he believed the Massachusetts mother knew right from wrong when she took the lives of her three young children before attempting to commit suicide in 2023. FBI ps