The state's own theory of what happened next is almost worse than the crime itself. Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague told the jury Lindsay Clancy made a rational choice that afternoon: her children were her "protective factor," the only thing keeping her from ending her own life. So she left Cora, Dawson, and Callan on the basement floor, exercise bands still around their necks, and walked upstairs to finish the plan for herself. That's the prosecution's read on a defendant they also called deeply disturbed. Two of the state's own expert witnesses didn't exactly help. Forensic psychologist Kirk Heilbrun told jurors this was a serious suicide attempt accompanied by killing her children out of love, because she couldn't bear to leave them behind. Forensic psychiatrist Gregory Saathoff, questioned by the defense, agreed the prosecution's own opening statement had minimized what Clancy was actually going through. The defense spent its case building the opposite picture. Attorney Kevin Reddington walked the jury through a chart of Clancy's prescriptions — lorazepam, sertraline, hydroxyzine, buspirone, trazodone — piled on a new mother by providers who never coordinated her care. He showed her handwritten journal from December 2022, a month before the killings, and told jurors her handwriting had collapsed into what he called chicken scratches because her mind was already gone. The defense's final witness, forensic psychiatrist Phillip Resnick — who evaluated Andrea Yates two decades ago — told this jury Clancy was clearly psychotic. The jury deliberated three and a half hours on their first day with no verdict. Retired FBI Special Agent Jennifer Coffindaffer and criminal defense attorney Bob Motta join Tony Brueski to argue over whether the prosecution's closing survived its own witnesses — and they don't land in the same place. Join Our SubStack For AD-FREE ADVANCE EPISODES & EXTRAS!: https://hiddenkillers.substack.com/ Want to comment and watch this podcast as a video? Check out our YouTube Channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8-vxmbhTxxG10sO1izODJg?sub_confirmation=1 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/hiddenkillerspod/ Tik-Tok https://www.tiktok.com/@hiddenkillerspod X Twitter https://x.com/TrueCrimePod Check out Robin Dreeke’s Master Class http://masterclass.com/robindreeke This publication contains commentary and opinion based on publicly available information. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Nothing published here should be taken as a statement of fact, health or legal advice. #LindsayClancy #KevinReddington #HiddenKillers #JenniferCoffindaffer #LindsayClancyTrial #PostpartumPsychosis #InsanityDefense #TrueCrime #VerdictWatch #ClosingArgumen