To kill three children when exercise bands can’t be easy. I highly doubt they sat silently while she was doing it. She sent her husband out of the house and methodically killed each child who I think cried and fought her in a very slow and painful way and while the evidence doesn’t say, again, I doubt they didn’t put up a fight.
The clinicians actually treating her before the killings did not document psychosis.
Dr. Alia Goodheart treated Clancy during her January 1–5 inpatient admission at McLean. Her diagnosis was:
Major depressive disorder, severe, without psychotic features.
Asked whether she observed signs of psychosis, Goodheart testified:
“No.”
Dr. Tufts had treated Clancy beginning in September 2022 and saw her 14 times, including January 23 the day before the killings.
According to Tufts, Clancy had never told her that she was hearing voices telling her to hurt herself, hurt somebody else, or kill somebody. When specifically questioned about those symptoms during treatment, Clancy denied them. On January 23 she described herself as flat, anxious, numb and lacking motivation, but denied suicidal or homicidal ideation.
There wasn’t a documented history of hearing any voice preceding the killings.
Her treating psychiatrist testified that Clancy had previously denied hearing voices commanding her to hurt herself or others. Her McLean psychiatrist observed no psychosis shortly before the killings.
So just to recap: (1) no documented command hallucinations during extensive treatment; (2) reported denial of harmful voices before the killings (3) conflicting retrospective accounts of when the voice began (4) the alleged voice appearing around the homicide window (5) allegedly commanding exactly the acts ultimately committed (6) then disappearing after the killings and (7) not recurring afterward.
The evidence strongly supports that Clancy was seriously mentally ill.
And mental illness can explain conduct without legally excusing it. A person can be depressed, suicidal, disordered in judgment, and still understand that killing children is wrong.
Based on all the evidence, I believe she knew what she was doing was wrong and chose to do it anyway.
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