{"id":806,"date":"2026-08-06T15:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/06\/lindsay-clancys-trial-breaks-as-she-uncontrollably-sobs-and-jury-gets-emotional-over-testimony\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:20:30","slug":"lindsay-clancys-trial-breaks-as-she-uncontrollably-sobs-and-jury-gets-emotional-over-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/06\/lindsay-clancys-trial-breaks-as-she-uncontrollably-sobs-and-jury-gets-emotional-over-testimony\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Clancy\u2019s Trial Breaks as She Uncontrollably Sobs and Jury Gets Emotional Over Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The jury was shown graphic autopsy photos of Clancy\u2019s 8-month-old son<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/S-Z39HomhRkNr3E_lqq87alPfJQ=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/lindsay-clancy-trial-day-8-3-8626-7f9724fe962247038f4a27fa453373df.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay ClancyCredit: AP\/YouTube\" title=\"Lindsay Clancy Trial, Day 8\" \/><figcaption><i>Lindsay Clancy<br \/>Credit: AP\/YouTube<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Lindsay Clancy audibly wept in court as a medical examiner testified about her youngest son\u2019s fatal neck wounds<\/li>\n<li>Members of the jury reportedly also had emotional reactions to autopsy photos of 8-month-old Callan Clancy<\/li>\n<li>Clancy was still sobbing as she was taken out of the courtroom during a recess<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Emotional scenes unfolded in the courtroom during <a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/lindsay-clancy-nanny-testifies-she-was-a-wonderful-mom-12033577\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"null\">Lindsay Clancy\u2019s trial<\/a> as a medical examiner testified about autopsy photos of the defendant\u2019s youngest child.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/lindsay-clancy-s-diary-entries-read-in-court-12033156\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"null\">Clancy<\/a> is charged with murder in the January 2023 deaths of her three young children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan. They were fatally strangled with exercise bands in their Duxbury, Mass., home.<\/p>\n<p>During the eighth day of Clancy\u2019s <a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/prosecutors-suggest-lindsay-clancy-fake-suicide-12031430\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"null\">trial<\/a> on Thursday, Aug. 6, Massachusetts state medical examiner Kimberley Springer testified about graphic photos from Callan\u2019s autopsy and described his neck wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Though the court proceedings were streamed live by the <a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ip4mF-36cEY\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"null\">Associated Press<\/a> and several other outlets, the photos, which the jury saw, were not shown on the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>As Springer was testifying about the photos and the wounds suffered by the 8-month-old child, Clancy could be heard sobbing.<\/p>\n<p>She continued to weep as she was taken out of the courtroom during a recess.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"null\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/lindsay-clancy-trial-day-8-live-stream-live-updates\/3993075\/\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"externalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"null\">NBC 10<\/a> commentator Sue O\u2019Connell, who is covering the trial from the courtroom, noted that as the photos were shown, multiple jurors appeared to have emotional reactions, while some dabbed their eyes with tissues.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for <\/strong><\/em><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-true-crime-newsletter-sign-up-8692775\">PEOPLE\u2019s free True Crime newsletter<\/a><\/strong><\/em><em><strong> for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following the recess, Clancy returned to the courtroom looking more composed.<\/p>\n<p>Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder, claiming a lack of criminal responsibility due to postpartum psychosis and being overmedicated when she killed the children.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The jury was shown graphic autopsy photos of Clancy\u2019s 8-month-old son Lindsay ClancyCredit: AP\/YouTube NEED TO KNOW Lindsay Clancy audibly wept in court as a medical examiner testified about her youngest son\u2019s fatal neck wounds Members of the jury reportedly also had emotional reactions to autopsy photos of 8-month-old Callan Clancy Clancy was still sobbing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"1":{"name":"Everything Else","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/category\/everything-else\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}