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Duxbury mother Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial pushed back to 2026
Clancy is due to stand trial on Jan. 5, 2026 — nearly three years after she allegedly killed her children.
Lindsay Clancy’s trial has been delayed until January 2026 — nearly three years after the Duxbury mother allegedly killed her three children before attempting to take her own life.
Earlier this week, a judge overseeing the case allowed prosecutors’ motion to push the trial back from its original Dec. 1, 2025, start date to Jan. 5, 2026.
“If we were to start on December 1, 2025, it is likely that the trial would have to be suspended during the holiday season and may spill over into January of 2026,” prosecutors wrote in the request, which also received approval from Clancy’s lawyer.
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Moving the trial back a month makes sense “in terms of cohesiveness and judicial economy,” prosecutors asserted.
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Last month, Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague estimated Clancy’s case could take two to three weeks to try, including impanelment. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington agreed, speculating jury selection may even span two weeks.
“It’s going to be difficult,” he added.
Clancy’s high-profile case made national headlines, rocking her South Shore community. While prosecutors allege Clancy meticulously plotted to kill her children on Jan. 24, 2023, Reddington has argued she was struggling with mental illness when she allegedly strangled 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy in the family’s Duxbury home.
Reddington has said Clancy plans to pursue an insanity defense, arguing she lacks criminal responsibility for the killings due to her mental health.
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“You have to ask yourself why. Why?” he said during Clancy’s superior court arraignment in 2023. “And when you ask yourself why, you consider all of these factors, it’s readily apparent … that this woman was a troubled soul.”
Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts each of murder and strangulation. Severely injured in her suicide attempt, she remains committed at the state-run Tewksbury Hospital while her case is pending.
Her next court date is scheduled for Feb. 7.
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