Lindsay Clancy sobs in court as ER doc recalls desperate efforts to save son — after jury takes trip to murder scene
Lindsay Clancy sobbed in court as an emergency room doctor described his attempts to save her 8-month-old son — testimony that came after the jury visited the murder scene Friday.
The 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse sat at the defense table in a Plymouth, Mass., courtroom visibly shaking from crying so uncontrollably. She had her right hand on her face and occasionally wiped her eyes. She also wiped her nose with a tissue at one point.
The emotional moment came just after Mark Tenerowicz, an emergency room doctor at Beth Israel Deaconess in Plymouth, told the jury about trying for 40 minutes to bring back her middle child, Dawson, before finally declaring him dead.
“He was not breathing, he had no pulse and he was not responding,” Tenerowicz said of the 3-year-old boy when he first arrived.
The doctor continued performing CPR on the toddler, gave him IV fluids and tried to restart his heart with adrenaline, among other treatments, Tenerowicz testified.
“It did not look like his heart would ever start again,” the doctor said.
When Tenerowicz stepped off the witness stand, Lindsay Clancy could be seen weeping, which continued as a second doctor told the jurors about trying to revive her youngest son, Callan.
Benjamin Kaufman, another emergency room doctor at the same hospital, said when the 8-month-old boy was brought in, he wasn’t breathing, but he did regain a heartbeat for roughly 10 minutes.
Still, “at no point did he exhibit any brain function,” Kaufman told the jury.
The baby was eventually flown to Boston Children’s Hospital, which was better equipped to handle a complicated case like his, the doctor explained. Callan did not survive.
Earlier Friday, the 18 jurors — including alternates — were taken by a coach bus to visit three sights: Clancy’s former Duxbury home where the murders were committed and two stops her then husband, Patrick Clancy, made when the killings were alleged to have taken place.
Lindsay Clancy sent Patrick Clancy on two errands while she allegedly strangled her three kids, including daughter Cora, 5, with elastic workout bands, according to prosecutors, testimony and evidence.
The jury drove past the CVS where Patrick Clancy went to pick up children’s medication and to the Plymouth restaurant, ThreeV, where he grabbed take-out before returning home to discover Lindsay Clancy tried to kill herself after she allegedly took the lives of their kids on the evening of Jan. 24, 2023.
The jury members did not exit the bus for CVS or the restaurant, but they were taken by groups of six into the home where the Clancys lived at the time. A lawyer has since bought the house, and the judge allowed the jury viewing, over his objections.
