Lindsay Clancy was the kind of mom who paid attention to every little detail when it came to her children.
For Christmas, she dressed her daughter Cora, and her middle son, Dawson, in matching red plaid shirts, adorning Cora’s hair with a festive bow and accenting Dawson’s look with a little gray bowtie.
On the first day of school last September, Lindsay, 32, made sure Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3, had new backpacks and everything they needed for kindergarten and preschool.
She proudly posted online a picture from the first day of school, showing the beaming siblings with their dad, Patrick, 34, and 7-month-old little brother Callan, on the front steps of their Duxbury, Mass., home, just 30 minutes south of Boston.
A longtime labor and delivery nurse, Lindsay kept in shape by pushing Dawson in his stroller, with Cora peddling next to her on her red tricycle that perfectly matched the color of her tiny bike helmet.
“She was always working out and going everywhere with her kids,” says Michelle Connor, 32, who was on the cheerleading team with Lindsay at Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Conn., and kept up with her on Facebook.
“She was that mom that you always wanted to be,” Connor says.
Now the woman who took so much pride in being a good mom has been accused of killing her three kids during what her lawyer says was a psychotic break. After allegedly killing her children, Lindsay allegedly slit her wrists and neck, then leapt from her second-story bedroom window in an attempt at suicide, prosecutors say.
Hospitalized and paralyzed from the waist down from her fall, Lindsay faces a slew of charges including two counts of murder and three counts of strangulation in connection with the deaths of her three children.
She has not yet been charged with murder in Callan’s death. She pleaded not guilty to all the charges from her hospital bed during her virtual Feb. 7 arraignment.
