Lindsay Clancy jurors visit crime scene in Karen Read-style move to test timeline: Retired judge

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Jurors successful Lindsay Clancy’s execution proceedings retraced her ex-husband’s way Friday earlier walking done the Massachusetts location wherever the couple’s 3 children were killed, a court-supervised sojourn a retired Massachusetts justice said could assistance the sheet recognize the timeline and mounting astatine the halfway of the case.

The determination was reminiscent of different high-profile Massachusetts execution proceedings that precocious captured headlines, erstwhile Karen Read was acquitted of the apical complaint during her 2025 retrial.

In Clancy's case, the 18-member assemblage sheet was driven past ThreeV edifice successful Plymouth and the CVS pharmacy successful Kingston that Patrick Clancy visited connected Jan. 24, 2023. Jurors were past escorted successful groups of six done the family’s erstwhile location successful Duxbury during a astir 40-minute visit.

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Lindsay Clancy reacts arsenic doctors attest astir efforts to prevention her children Friday, July 31, 2026. (Josh Reynolds for Daily Mail /Pool)

They besides saw the basement wherever Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, were found, arsenic good arsenic the gait beneath the second-story model wherever Lindsay Clancy was discovered earnestly injured aft attempting suicide. The autumn has near the pistillate paralyzed and successful a wheelchair.

Jack Lu, who served 16 years arsenic a Massachusetts Superior Court justice and 5 years arsenic a Boston Municipal Court judge, said that, successful his experience, a presumption is expected successful a Massachusetts homicide trial, peculiarly a lawsuit involving aggregate deaths.

"The world is, connected a homicide case, they’re always, ever going to bash a view," Lu, present a Boston College instrumentality professor, told Fox News Digital.

Karen Read exits the Norfolk County Superior Court, Friday, June 13, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. Read was acquitted of the apical complaint successful her execution proceedings aft being charged with sidesplitting her Boston constabulary serviceman fellow by intentionally driving her SUV into him. (Richard Beetham for Fox New Digital)

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Lu said the clearest payment whitethorn beryllium helping jurors measure however agelong Patrick was distant from the location and recognize the locations discussed passim testimony.

"They’re going to dissect the magnitude of clip progressive successful the husband’s travel to CVS," Lu said, adding that the sojourn could assistance jurors recognize "what benignant of clip that Ms. Clancy had" aft Patrick left.

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Jurors walk the CVS pharmacy successful Kingston, Massachusetts, wherever Patrick Clancy stopped connected Friday, July 31, 2026. (Josh Reynolds for Daily Mail /Pool)

Jurors walk ThreeV edifice successful Plymouth, Massachusetts, wherever Patrick Clancy picked up takeout anterior to uncovering his 3 children dead, connected Friday, July 31, 2026. (Josh Reynolds for Daily Mail /Pool)

Still, Lu cautioned against assuming the presumption needfully favored either broadside oregon would go decisive.

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"The presumption is possibly not evidently important to this case," helium said. "It gives them context."

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A akin process was utilized during Read’s 2025 retrial successful Massachusetts, wherever she was charged with sidesplitting her boyfriend, Boston constabulary serviceman John O'Keefe.

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Jurors were bussed to 34 Fairview Road successful Canton, wherever O’Keefe was found, and viewed the spot and Read’s Lexus. Prosecutors and defence attorneys directed jurors’ attraction to antithetic details from the case.

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In Clancy's case, prosecutors allege she intentionally sent Patrick connected the errands to get him retired of the location earlier strangling the children.

Jurors instrumentality a court-supervised presumption of locations cardinal to Lindsay Clancy’s execution proceedings connected Friday, July 31, 2026. (Josh Reynolds for Daily Mail /Pool)

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Her attorneys bash not quality that she killed her children but reason she lacked transgression work due to the fact that she was suffering from terrible postpartum psychosis.

After returning to Plymouth Superior Court connected Friday, jurors heard affectional grounds from exigency country doctors who treated Dawson and Callan.

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Dr. Mark Tenerowicz testified that infirmary unit tried for astir 40 minutes to revive Dawson, who arrived without a pulse and was not breathing. He was pronounced dormant astatine astir 7:28 p.m.

Dr. Benjamin Kaufman said aesculapian workers restored Callan’s pulse, but the babe remained incapable to respire independently.

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"At nary constituent did helium grounds immoderate encephalon function," Kaufman testified.

Lindsay Clancy’s execution proceedings concludes for the week astatine Plymouth Superior Court connected Friday, July 31, 2026. (Josh Reynolds for Daily Mail /Pool)

During testimony, Clancy covered her look and appeared to sob and shingle during the doctors’ testimony. Lu described the affectional value of the proceedings arsenic "exceptional," adjacent among heavy publicized trials.

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"Even among high-profile cases, the emotionalism of this lawsuit is extraordinary," helium said, adding that Massachusetts judges are trained to privately code jurors aft a verdict astir processing the affectional toll of what they went through.

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Judge William Sullivan dismissed the sheet connected Friday afternoon, saying the proceedings was "well connected schedule, if not ahead." Testimony is scheduled to resume Monday astatine 9 a.m.