Lindsay Clancy huge step closer to learning her fate, as smart watch shines new light on her three children’s final moments: Live updates

No health data was recorded on Lindsay Clancy’s watch or phone after 5.38pm on January 24, 2023, when the user went up two flights of stairs, digital forensics expert Ian Whiffin testified.

This information shines a light on the possible timeline of the killings.

If 5.38pm was the moment that Clancy had reached the second-floor bedroom and begun harming herself, after climbing up the first flight of stairs from the basement to the first floor, then this would mean she had already strangled the children by that time.

Patrick left the home sometime after 5.15pm.

So this would suggest that Clancy immediately began killing the three children almost as soon as he left the home, which could support the state’s argument that it was premeditated.

However, her defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, pointed out that there is no data after 5.38pm so Whiffin, who was being cross-examined, cannot know what happened after that time. Clancy’s phone or watch could have been put down or the battery died, while she could have still been going up and down stairs, the expert acknowledged.

Reddington also argued that on January 25, 2023, the morning after the killings, Clancy’s devices recorded 47 meters of movement between 7am and 8am.

He pointed out that, at that time, Clancy was bedbound in hospital and the Apple Watch was found days later in a bedside drawer – casting doubts on the accuracy of the data.

However, under redirect, the expert said that the data could have come from the watch or phone, and the phone could have recorded movement being handled by investigators.

The next defense witness called to the stand is Lindsay Clancy’s sister, Allison Ozga.

Margaret Hamp recounted a time when Lindsay Clancy was working when a patient was admitted who had plans to harm herself while pregnant.

‘We had a conversation. Lindsay was brand new; it was the summer she had just started, and we had a conversation about mental health in pregnancy and postpartum,’ Hamp said.

‘I asked her if she ever heard of the Andrea Yates case, and she hadn’t.

‘I explained that to her, and she cried, and she said, “How could a mother hurt her children.”’

Clancy’s case has been compared to Yates.

Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub in Texas in 2001. Her attorneys said she suffered from postpartum psychosis and believed killing her children would save them from hell.

Her initial murder conviction was overturned, and in a retrial she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a state mental hospital.

Lindsay Clancy’s former colleague, Margaret Hamp, recounted an incident in which the former nurse called the police for a welfare check on her family.

Hamp described a time when Clancy watched Cora sleep on a monitor at work.

She said Cora was crying and Clancy tried to contact her husband, but when he did not answer, she called police for a welfare check.

On cross-examination, the state revealed that police responded to the home and resolved the situation.

Lindsay Clancy’s former colleague, Margaret Hamp, was the first defense witness called to the stand.

Hamp is a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital and worked with Clancy for approximately seven years,

‘Lindsay loved being a nurse,’ Hamp testified, adding she was ‘really good’ at her job.

Hamp described her as compassionate, kind and a patient advocate.

She also said Clancy would become emotional during patients’ births, crying and talking about how beautiful the birth was.

The testimony appeared to make Clancy emotional, she took off her glasses and grabbed a tissue, dabbing her face.

Based on the evidence in the prosecution’s case, defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued that the state’s evidence showed Lindsay Clancy was suffering from a mental defect and should be found not guilty

He also argued that the charges should be at least reduced to second degree murder.

Reddington said the state’s case showed that the evidence is ‘overwhelming’ in showing that Clancy was ‘unequivocally suffering from a mental disease or defect’ at the time of the killings.

The judge denied the motion.

After digital forensics expert Ian Whiffin finished testifying, the state announced it had rested its case.

The prosecution has argued the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.

Now, attorney Kevin Reddington will have the opportunity to present the defense’s case.

Clancy does not deny killing her children, but has pleaded not guilty and claimed she is not responsible for her actions because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

Lindsay Clancy cried in court as a forensics expert testified about the data on her phone the day of the killings.

Ian Whiffin, who works for Cellebrite, analyzed text messages between Clancy and her mother as well as her ex-husband, Patrick.

Clancy made a stifled sobbing sound inside the courtroom as he spoke. Her shoulders and back were shaking.

She reached out and grabbed a tissue from a box on the defense table while listening to testimony about that final day.

Jurors have previously heard how Lindsay Clancy’s Apple Watch was found in a drawer of her bedside cabinet.

Investigators did not find it during the search of the home. Instead, Patrick Clancy found it and multiple bottles of pills in the drawer and turned them over to Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington.

Cellebrite digital forensics expert Ian Whiffin testified that the last time Clancy’s Apple Watch recorded her heart rate was at 5.23.52pm on January 24, 2023. Her heart rate was 57 bpm.

This was not long after Patrick left the home.

The flight data could narrow down the timeframe for the killings. Clancy killed the children in the basement, then had to climb two flights of stairs to get to the second-floor master bedroom where she cut her wrists and neck and jumped from the window.

It was also 5.33pm when Patrick called Clancy from CVS. She missed the call and called back at 5.34pm.

Judge William Sullivan told the jury that the prosecution is expected to rest today.

Then it will be up to the defense if they want to bring a case.

First, the prosecution called Ian Whiffin to the stand, a digital forensics expert at Cellebrite.

Lindsay Clancy, 36, is accused of murdering her three children – Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan – in January 2023.

Although Clancy does not deny killing her children, she has pleaded not guilty and claimed she is not responsible for her actions because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

On the day of the killings, Clancy asked her husband, Patrick Clancy, to leave their home to get takeout food and to pick up something at a pharmacy.

Clancy strangled the children with exercise bands, then used multiple methods to try to end her own life.

She was paralyzed after falling from the home’s second-story window and is being held at a state hospital.

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The public gallery in the courtroom is almost full to the brim with members of the public – mainly women.

Clancy is dressed in a pastel green blouse, her dark hair hanging loose around her shoulders.

Her parents Mike and Paula Musgrove are here to support her – as they have been every day of the trial so far.

The prosecution is expected to rest its case today.