{"id":935,"date":"2026-08-19T00:27:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/19\/lindsay-clancys-82-1-degree-body-temperature-after-jumping-from-window-a-doctor-explains-exclusive\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T00:27:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T00:27:31","slug":"lindsay-clancys-82-1-degree-body-temperature-after-jumping-from-window-a-doctor-explains-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/2026\/08\/19\/lindsay-clancys-82-1-degree-body-temperature-after-jumping-from-window-a-doctor-explains-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsay Clancy\u2019s 82.1-Degree Body Temperature After Jumping from Window: A Doctor Explains (Exclusive)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sohaib Imtiaz, Chief Medical Officer at People Inc., shares insights into Clancy\u2019s extremely low temperature<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/KKaHBJintYcjAMq9w6P-i2tKisM=\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(jpeg)\/lindsay-clancy-1-88b989ba0988426fb16e5c7247138d21.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay Clancy in August 2026Credit: Jonathan Wiggs\/The Boston Globe\/Getty\" title=\"A seated woman with long hair in a courtroom looking to the side\" \/><figcaption><i>Lindsay Clancy in August 2026<br \/>Credit: Jonathan Wiggs\/The Boston Globe\/Getty<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Lindsay Clancy was left paralyzed from the waist down after jumping from a second-story window following the killings of her three children in January 2023<\/li>\n<li>Some questions have arisen about how her body temperature dropped to 82.1 degrees Fahrenheit<\/li>\n<li>An expert tells PEOPLE her severe injuries, blood loss and exposure to the frozen ground contributed to her body temperature dropping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/lindsay-clancy-trial-begins-in-killings-of-3-children-12022503\" data-type=\"\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lindsay Clancy<\/a> murder trial continues, more information has been released about her physical condition following her suicide attempt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have charged Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, with murder in the Jan. 24, 2023, deaths of her three young children \u2014 Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan. That day, according to prosecutors, Clancy asked her then-husband, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/who-is-patrick-clancy-lindsay-clancy-12027561\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-type=\"internalLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\">Patrick Clancy<\/a>, to pick up takeout food and a prescription.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Less than 30 minutes later, he returned to their Duxbury, Mass., home to find his wife injured after allegedly jumping from a second-story window. While calling 911, he discovered the couple\u2019s three children dead in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay, meanwhile, suffered cuts to her wrists and neck, several broken bones and spinal injuries that left her <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/crime\/mom-who-allegedly-killed-three-children-and-jumped-off-roof-now-paralyzed-lawyer-says\/\" data-type=\"\" data-component=\"link\" data-source=\"inlineLink\" data-ordinal=\"1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paralyzed from the waist down<\/a>. During the trial, Dr. Kelly McDonough \u2014 an emergency room physician at South Shore Hospital who treated Lindsay \u2014 testified that she was hypothermic with a core body temperature of 82.1 degrees Fahrenheit when she arrived. (Experts say it is unlikely her temperature was taken immediately upon arrival because she was in critical condition and required emergency care at a hospital that was some 20 miles from her home, adding to the time for any cooling.)<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Sohaib Imtiaz, chief medical officer at People Inc., discusses how such a low body temperature could have occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201chealthy range\u201d for body temperature is between 97 and 99 degrees, Imtiaz tells PEOPLE, with slight fluctuations occurring depending on the timing of the day. However, he says the extent of Lindsay\u2019s injuries could account for her suffering from severe hypothermia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reasons why this would\u2019ve happened is, she had a spinal cord injury, which then abolishes her regulatory defenses. Her responses in her body \u2014 we call it vasomotor responses \u2014 are disrupted so your blood vessels can\u2019t constrict, which is how you conserve heat when it\u2019s cold,\u201d he explains. \u201cWhen that mechanism isn\u2019t working, the warm blood cannot be retained and body temperature can drop pretty quickly. She\u2019s also losing blood and is in shock, which reduces your heat production naturally.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.com\/thmb\/dBIpCjY9_LF-1jlkpixsrnCYYMo=\/fit-in\/1280x960\/lindsay-clancy-court-81826-d69320396be443bb82f6b993b7d110d3.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay ClancyCredit: Jonathan Wiggs\/The Boston Globe via Getty\" title=\"Lindsay Clancy sits next to her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court on August 11, 2026\" \/><figcaption><i>Lindsay Clancy<br \/>Credit: Jonathan Wiggs\/The Boston Globe via Getty<\/i><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Additionally, Imtiaz notes that Lindsay was lying on the ground in the snow, and direct contact with a frozen surface can drive heat loss. He says it\u2019s also possible that a person\u2019s temperature can continue to drop during transport to the hospital, even when medics are working to rewarm the body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the medical teams start to rewarm, you can have continued cooling because you have this cold, pooled blood in the periphery, and that can lead to external cooling as well,\u201d he says. \u201cSo it\u2019s medically coherent for someone who is losing blood, is shocked, a spinal cord injury, lying motionless on a frozen ground, followed by an extra afterdrop during transfer, you can lose that three to five Fahrenheit per hour quite easily.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Imtiaz notes that because the precise time Lindsay\u2019s temperature was taken is not known, there has been confusion surrounding it.<\/p>\n<p>Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-true-crime-newsletter-sign-up-8692775\">PEOPLE\u2019s free True Crime newsletter<\/a> for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.<\/p>\n<p>Imtiaz adds that while factors like Lindsay\u2019s blood loss, spinal cord injury and conduction to frozen ground make sense for reaching 82.1 degrees, \u201cthe physiologically coherent explanation depends on [the] cooling interval.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Sohaib Imtiaz, Chief Medical Officer at People Inc., shares insights into Clancy\u2019s extremely low temperature Lindsay Clancy in August 2026Credit: Jonathan Wiggs\/The Boston Globe\/Getty NEED TO KNOW Lindsay Clancy was left paralyzed from the waist down after jumping from a second-story window following the killings of her three children in January 2023 Some questions [&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-935","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\/935","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=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adsandthings.com\/winews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}