The Duxbury, Masachusetts, mom accused of strangling her three children with exercise bands told her panicked husband the kids were in the basement where he “begged them to breathe” after discovering their bodies, a prosecutor said.
“She killed the kids,” husband Patrick Clancy cried out to first responders the evening of Jan. 24, Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague added Tuesday.
The prosecutor asked that the mom, Lindsay Clancy, be held without bail — adding that soon after the 32-year-old woke up at the hospital she wrote on a whiteboard: “Do I need an attorney?”
Sprague also said Lindsay Clancy used mapping software to track how long it would take her husband to run errands she sent him on that evening — including a trip to a nearby CVS for stool softener for kids and take-out dinner.
That dinner, the prosecutor added, was called in by Lindsay Clancy to ThreeV Restaurant in nearby Plymouth, where she ordered a Mediterranean power bowl for her, scallop and pork-belly risotto for him.
He arrived at the CVS at 5:32 p.m. and ThreeV at 5:54 p.m. and headed back home “within a minute” with the food arriving just after 6 o’clock, Sprague said.
“When he arrived home,” the ADA added, “the first thing he noticed was the silence.”
A bedroom door was locked; there was blood on the floor upstairs; and then Patrick Clancy found his wife on the ground outside, her cuts no longer bleeding.
“What did you do?” he asked her, Sprague said.
“I tried to kill myself and jumped out the window,” the wife responded.
“Where are the kids?” he added.
“In the basement,” the mom said.
“Guys?” the dad called out as he went searching for his children, Sprague added.
“He could then be heard screaming in agony,” Sprague said, and “begged them to breathe” as he pulled the bands from their necks. And when first responders arrived and met him in the basement, he yelled out to them “She killed the kids!”
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