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A hospital chaplain has revealed the haunting words spoken by Lindsay Clancy after she was accused of killing her children.
Clancy is currently standing trial, accused of killing her three children: Cora, five; Dawson, three; and eight-month-old Callan.
After her former husband, Patrick Clancy, returned home, he found the bodies of their children in the house's basement. Clancy attempted suicide, jumping 20ft out of a window, which left her paralysed from the waist down.
Now, a chaplain who met with Clancy while she recovered in the hospital has spoken out about their conversations.
Sheila Cavanaugh is a chaplain at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and met with Clancy around 200 times while she was recovering from her failed suicide attempt.
Cavanaugh said that when she first met Clancy, she was intubated and unable to speak, but she did reveal something in a pivotal follow-up meeting between the two.
"I am so glad my children are safe," Clancy told Cavanaugh in the hospital.
The chaplain said, in response, that she took Clancy's hand and told her that her three children were "safe in heaven."
Cavanaugh added that Clancy claimed to have heard a voice before the killings, saying, "If she did not follow the [voice's] command, neither she nor her children would be safe."
The prosecution in Clancy's trial has maintained that she intentionally killed her three children. Cross-examining Cavanaugh, the prosecution stated that in her notes from the meetings, she did not mention Clancy hearing a voice.
Standing trial for the killing of her three children, Clancy's defence argues that she was a loving mother suffering from postpartum psychosis and was given problematic medications that impacted her mental state.
Before the death of her children, Clancy checked herself into a psychiatric hospital, where she told a doctor there that she heard a "man's voice" telling her to "kill [your] children so you can kill yourself."
Clancy sent her husband, Patrick, out to collect takeout food and medications from CVS on the fateful night in January 2023.
When her husband returned home, he found Clancy's bedroom covered in blood and the window open. Clancy had jumped 20ft in a suicide attempt. She survived, but remains paralyzed as a result of her injuries.
Patrick Clancy then discovered the bodies of his three children in their house's basement rooms. All three had been strangled with exercise resistance bands and died in the hospital.
