Portions of the diaries were used by both the prosecution and defense during the second week of Clancy's trial and were seized from her family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Clancy is accused of strangling her three kids – 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan – with her legal team arguing the former labor and delivery nurse was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis. "I'm so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to find something physically wrong with me," she wrote in a November 18, 2022, entry, two months before the alleged killings.