A Massachusetts mother charged with strangling her three children earlier this year alleged searched for ways to kill before the murders.
The information came in search warrant affidavits made public this week, according to the Boston Globe.
Lindsay Clancy, 32, was indicted by a grand jury last month on three counts of murder and strangulation in the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson 3, and Callan, 8 months, CrimeOnline previously reported. The children were found dead in the basement of the family’s home in Duxbury on January 24, after Clancy cut herself and jumped from a second story window.
Prosecutors had previously said Clancy purposefully sent her husband out on errands to give her time to kill the children and herself. She had searched for how long it would take to go pick up frood from their home, they said.
The new allegations appear in more than 200 pages of court documents, including affidavits seeking warrants to search Clancy’s other electronic devices, the Globe said.
“Investigators are also aware that Ms. Clancy used her cellular telephone and her journal to document her mental state and her feelings about her children, in addition to keeping track of her medications, and researching ways to kill, which means that [it] is reasonable to conclude that Ms. Clancy would have used all formats and tools available to her including a tablet,” one affidavit said.
The documents did not say how investigators knew about the search history of Clancy’s phone and did not detail any of the searches.
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, has argued that she suffered from mental health problems related to postpartum depression and was overmedicated. The newly unsealed records say that her husband, Patrick Clancy, told investigators that she had been prescribed zoloft, valium, trazodone, ativan, klonopin, prozac, and seroquel. He said she took as many as four a day, as prescribed.
Clancy, who has been hospitalized since her arrest, has an arraignment scheduled for Thursday.
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[Featured image: L-R, Lindsay, Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy/Facebook]
