Dr Paul Zeizel, a highly experienced, well-respected forensic psychologist who works with Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington, testified that he visited Clancy at Brigham and Women’s Hospital days after the killings.

He first visited her on February 4, 2023 – 11 days on from the killings – at Reddington’s request because the defense attorney had taken on her case and was concerned about her mental health and the fact that she had been allowed no visitors.

Clancy asked him if she could use his cell phone to call Patrick, who she had not seen or spoken to since that tragic evening.

Dr Zeizel let her, so long as the call was on speakerphone.

Clancy called Patrick, but he did not pick up.

Two days later, when Dr Zeizel visited again, Clancy called again from her hospital bed. That time Patrick picked up.

It was during that call that Clancy told her husband that a man’s voice had commanded her to kill the children and herself.

‘She had said that she heard a male voice ordering her, telling her that she didn’t have any choice, but she had to kill her children and then kill herself,’ Dr Zeizel testified.

The Daily Mail has launched a new podcast taking you inside the courtroom for the murder trial of mother-of-three Lindsay Clancy.

The Crime Desk’s Rachel Sharp has been covering every single day of the trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, keeping our readers up to date with live reports and filing video roundups from the scene.

Rachel will now be joined by Trial USA host Kayla Brantley twice a week to record a special podcast miniseries.

Court has resumed in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy.

Inside the courtroom there are lots of new faces in the media as well as public gallery.

Clancy’s mom, sister, priest all here.

Clancy is dressed in a dark green blouse.

Judge has instantly called a sidebar to speak to the two sides.

The defense and prosecution came back from the sidebar and said we’re going into a recess.

Lindsay Clancy’s bow-wearing prosecutor is facing criticism for a brazen courtroom stunt and tense questioning of the slain children’s grieving grandparents.

Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham is one of the two prosecutors from the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office working to prove that Clancy intentionally murdered her three children.

Buckingham has raised eyebrows throughout the trial as she has worn a bow in her hair each day in an apparent tribute to Cora, then subjected the children’s grandparents to intense questioning.

Behind the doors of the pre-Civil War psychiatric facility, the former nurse who once cared for her own patients has become the patient herself.

There, confined to a wheelchair, she receives round-the-clock care for her physical and mental health, following what her defense says was a severe episode of postpartum psychosis and depression.

Lindsay Clancy’s former mother-in-law showed her a sign of support after delivering emotional testimony about her three slain grandchildren.

Patrick Clancy’s mother, Sue Clancy, nodded with intention at her ex-daughter-in-law as she walked off the stand on Tuesday.

Sue faced intense questioning while testifying as a defense witness, including from Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham who asked the grieving grandmother if she was aware that ‘murder is considered a mortal sin.’