Massachusetts mom who suffered post-partum psychosis ‘researched ways to kill before she strangled her three children to death’ before trying to take her own life, court documents reveal

The Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children to death with exercise bands while suffering from postpartum psychosis reportedly investigated murder methods.

Lindsay Clancy, 32, was indicted by a Plymouth Grand Jury in mid-September on three counts of murder and strangulation.

Clancy allegedly attacked and killed her three children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan at the family home in Duxbury on January 24.

The mother, a labor and delivery nurse, subsequently attempted suicide and remains in the hospital as a result.

The unsealed statement – obtained by DailyMail.com – reveals that investigators have obtained a warrant for her electronic devices, on which Clancy is said to keep a diary about her mental health and feelings about children, as well as ‘researching ways to kill’.

No specific search terms or phrases were revealed, nor did the documents provide any further details about how they found the information.

The affidavits also reveal that Clancy had resorted to self-harm with “a large, blood-covered kitchen knife” before jumping out of a window of her home.

Suffering from severe postpartum depression, Clancy had been prescribed an “excessive” cocktail of pills that her forgiving husband Patrick Clancy believes are responsible for the tragedy.

Investigators took bottles of diazepam, amitriptyline and trazodone, all antidepressants, from Clancy’s home on January 25. All three had been prescribed to her within the past sixteen days.

It’s also been revealed that Clancy’s husband, Patrick, was in the basement when police arrived to check on Lindsay and knew “something was wrong because his kids wouldn’t wake up.”

He approached the police and started shouting: ‘She killed the children!’ While making the discoveries, he found two of his children with a band around their necks, turning their faces “blue and purple.”

Authorities conducted a thorough search of the home, going through the home’s cameras, receipts, a CVS bag containing the child laxative Lindsay asked Patrick to buy, the murder weapons, the knife and several notebooks.

The books contain a more complete list of the medications Lindsay was prescribed: Zoloft, Valium, Trazodone, Ativan, Klonopin, Prozac and Seroquel. It didn’t seem like she got them all at once.

According to the newspaper, Clancy will appear in court on Thursday Boston Herald.

Postpartum psychosis is defined by the National Institutes of Health as the most severe form of mental illness in that category, and is characterized by extreme confusion, loss of contact with reality, paranoia, delusions, disorganized thought process and hallucinations.”

It usually occurs within the first six weeks after delivery and “ensures immediate medical and psychiatric attention and hospitalization if there is a risk of suicide or filicide.”

Clancy’s attorney, Kevin J. Reddington, previously told a judge that the drugs she was prescribed made her feel like a “zombie.”

Chilling audio of the 911 call Patrick made that night reveals the extent of the horror.

Clancy suffered lacerations to her wrists and lacerations, which she allegedly inflicted on herself before jumping from a window of her home.

Patrick found his wife lying outside their home after returning from getting takeaway food for the family.

As first responders arrived on the scene and tended to his wife, Patrick was heard screaming in the basement of the home.

There he found the children unconscious and blue with exercise bands around their necks.

The state’s chief medical examiner would declare that the two older children had died of asphyxiation, while little Callan had died of complications from asphyxiation.

Clancy was arraigned from her bed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital on February 7.

“One of the major issues here is the horrific overmedication of medications that caused homicidal thoughts and suicidal thoughts,” Reddington said in February.

“They (Lindsay and her husband Patrick) repeatedly went to doctors and said, ‘Please help us.’

‘This turned her into a zombie… the drugs prescribed were excessive, absolutely excessive.

‘She received regular medical care and treatment. And her husband was very proactive in trying to protect her and help her with the medications the doctors prescribed her.

“They went through hell and never came back,” he said.

He plans to use this as a defense against assassination attempts. Patrick, her husband, says he has forgiven her.

In a GoFundMe message to friends and strangers who have raised $1 million for him, he said: “I want to ask all of you that you find it deep within yourself to forgive Lindsay as I have.

“The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring to everyone: me, our children, family, friends and her patients.

‘The fibers of her soul are loving. All I wish for her now is that she can somehow find peace.”