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She planned these murders, gave herself the time and privacy needed to commit the murders,

and then she strangled each child in the place where they should have felt the safest,

at home with their mom.

This is not a situation, Your Honor, that was planned by any mean.

This is a situation that clearly was a product of mental illness.

That is the prosecution and the defense at the 2023 arraignment of Lindsay Clancy. She's the

former labor and delivery nurse who is accused of murdering her three young children at their

home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. That's a coastal suburb of Boston.

Lindsay attended the hearing remotely via video conference from her hospital bed, where she was recovering

from injuries she sustained on the night of January 24, 2023. I'm 48 hours correspondent Natalie Morales,

and this is case by case. Now, neither the prosecution nor

the defense here dispute what happened that night that Lindsay Clancy killed her three children,

five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan. Now, the question at the

center of it all is why? Were Lindsay's

actions premeditated or was she overmedicated and suffering from postpartum mental health issues

that led to this tragedy? And joined me today is Christina Rex, reporter and anchor for Boston

CBS station WBZ. She's been reporting on this case since the very

beginning and she'll be covering Lindsay's trial, which is set to start next week. Thank you for

joining us, Christina. Thanks so much for having me. And when I say that you've been covering this case

from the very beginning, I mean literally you were there. You reported from the crime scene

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