Lindsay Clancy said ‘Go to God’ aloud as she strangled each of her young children with an exercise band, a psychiatrist revealed in court.
Dr Avram Mack, the psychiatrist who evaluated Clancy for the state in April 2026, took the stand Friday afternoon and testified about the horrifying events in the hours leading up to the 2023 killings.
He said Clancy told him that, on the afternoon of the murders, she heard a loud male voice say: ‘You should kill the kids. This is your last chance so you can kill yourself.’
Clancy first took Dawson to the basement, placed an exercise band around his neck and strangled him, repeatedly saying, ‘Go to God’ as she killed him, Mack said.
He told the court that Clancy went on to strangle Cora and Callan before retreating to the bedroom and attempting to kill herself.
Once upstairs, Mack testified that Clancy took medication from the room, cut her wrists and neck, then ’caused herself to fall from the window’ after cutting through the screen.
After laying bare the chilling details of her children’s final moments, the psychiatrist told the court he believed Clancy had the capacity to be held criminally responsible when she ‘methodically’ killed her three children.
When asked about the last words Clancy said to her children, he testified that the phrase was ‘not only hope for the children but a description of the situation.’
Lindsay Clancy said ‘Go to God’ aloud as she strangled each of her young children with an exercise band, a psychiatrist revealed in court
Dr Avram Mack, the state’s rebuttal psychiatrist who evaluated Clancy in April 2026, took the stand Friday afternoon during her murder trial and testified about the events just before the 2023 killings
Mack said Clancy told him that, on the afternoon of the murders, she heard a loud male voice say: ‘You should kill the kids. This is your last chance so you can kill yourself’
According to Mack, Clancy awoke after the murders overcome with immediate horror and shame – feelings he said showed she knew what she had done was wrong.
‘The deaths were done one by one in a way that was organized and tended to achieve a particular goal,’ he explained. ‘Her attempt at suicide was also organized in that it included as many methods as possible.’
The revelations came as Mack detailed the hours before the killings, saying Clancy reported having a ‘good day’ and her husband, Patrick, told welfare officials it was the best day she had experienced in a long time.
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