Photograph by David L. Ryan / Boston Globe / GettyThe trial of Lindsay Clancy, a former labor-and-delivery nurse accused of murdering her three young children, began this week in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Her two older children were pronounced dead that night, and Callan died in a hospital three days later. What the jury must decide now is whether Clancy’s condition amounted to legal insanity, or whether, as the prosecution argues, she “coldly and calculatingly” killed her children. The first witness the prosecution called was Patrick, Clancy’s now ex-husband, whom I spoke to extensively for a 2024 story about the case. As Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, told me in 2024, of cases involving the killing of children, “Juries don’t want it on their hands.”