Lindsay Clancy's civil team unleashes on medical system after criminal mistrial

Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald on Sep 4, 2026

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PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Lindsay Clancy’s civil attorneys vow to stand by the Duxbury mother and prove the medical system “failed” her.

“We plan on holding each and every doctor and ... hospital responsible for how they failed Lindsay time and time and time again,” attorney Rosemary Scapicchio said outside Plymouth Superior Court on Friday.

Her pledge came moments after Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in Clancy’s weeks-long murder trial. A deadlocked jury stood at 11-1 following roughly 38 hours of deliberation.

Clancy does not dispute killing her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months — at their home in January 2023 before she attempted suicide by jumping out of a second-floor window, leaving her paralyzed. Rather, her defense argues she suffered from postpartum psychosis and lacked criminal responsibility.

In the civil suit, her attorneys argue the medical system failed to properly diagnose her postpartum bipolar disorder, instead subjecting her to an “uncoordinated course of polypharmacy” that precipitated a psychotic break.

“She has to go to a second trial because of their negligence, and it’s devastating,” Scapicchio said. “Lindsay wakes up every day, and the first thing she thinks of is her kids … that doesn’t go away ever, and we need to make things right.”

The criminal trial hinged on whether Clancy could distinguish right from wrong during the killings. Plymouth District Attorney Tim Cruz did not say Friday whether his office will retry the case.

The civil suit lists doctors Jennifer Tufts, Alia Goodheart, Zobeida Diaz and Rebecca Jollotta as defendants, along with Aster Mental Health, South Shore Health System, McLean Hospital and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island.

Doctors listed in the suit testified during the criminal trial that they treated Clancy for depression and anxiety, but she never displayed psychosis symptoms leading up to the tragedy.

“All those doctors ... that let her go without treatment, overprescribed and misprescribed drugs, as alleged in the complaint, it’s all going to be brought out,” medical malpractice attorney Andrew Meyer said. “It’s going to be brought out more in the civil case as to the poor medicine that she received … that let her down, her family down and obviously caused the tragedy that we’re facing here today.”

Scapicchio slammed the medical system’s dismissal of postpartum health.

“They are doing a disservice to the entire population of women that need care after they have a child,” Scapicchio said. “Let’s talk about the names they label women who are either depressed or have hormonal imbalances. They call it the baby blues.”

“You think for a second that if a man had erectile dysfunction, they’d be calling it penis blues? No, because it minimizes what they’re suffering from, and we are here to change that on behalf of Lindsay.”

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