LINDSAY Clancy’s two-word phrase she uses to describe the day she strangled her three children has been revealed in court on day 16 of her trial, where she also gave a physical reaction to evidence.
Lindsay, 36, in her murder trial where she to three murder charges after she strangled her three kids with exercise bands on January 24, 2023.
Lindsay Clancy (pictured on August 19) faces three murder charges for strangling her three kids to dєatᩚh in 2023
Psychologist Paul Zeizel, who began seeing Lindsay after the killings, answered questions from the prosecution and defense on August 19 for the second day of his testimony
Lindsay has admitted to 𝘬iᩚlling her three children, but is seeking an insanity defense
Cora, Callan and Dawson were found by their father Patrick Clancy in the basement of their home on January 24, 2023 with exercise bands around their necks
Court resumed for day 16 of the on Wednesday, where attorney continues to argue Lindsay was not criminally responsible because she suffering from undiagnosed at the time of the killings.
Five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan were found in the basement of by their father after he discovered Lindsay in the backyard after
Reddington got a court order to allow Psychologist to visit Lindsay at Brigham Women’s Hospital a few days after the killings after she attempted to end her life, which left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Zeizel said on Wednesday in the second day of his testimony that he has visited Lindsay on around 60 occasions since then.
Inside hospital holding Lindsay Clancy where cops are called 1,000 times a year
During cross-examination, the prosecution asked Zeizel to clarify what words Lindsay uses to describe
ᴀssistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham asked if Lindsay referred to everything as “my tᩚraɢedy,” which he said was “just one of the things that she’ll say.”
Zeizel also revealed to the court that Lindsay thinks about her three kids frequently at the hospital, where she is under constant one-to-one monitoring due to sᩚuᩚiᩚcide attempt concerns.
“She really loves them and misses them and thinks of them every single day, almost every moment of the day,” he said.
Details about what Lindsay has been like in the years since the killings where , a roughly hour and a half drive from the Plymouth courthouse, were also revealed.
Zeizel described Lindsay as “extremely well-regarded and well-liked” at the hospital.
The prosecution appeared to suggest Lindsay acted normally on the three anniversaries of that have pᴀssed and on her kids birthdays, which got a visual reaction from Lindsay.
The prosecution read inpatient notes from Tewksbury Hospital, revealing Lindsay ate dinner with and played games with her in the evening on May 26, 2023, which would have been first birthday.
PLYMOUTH, MA – August 19: Psychologist Paul Zeizel answers questions during day 16 of Lindsay Clancys murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mᴀssachusetts, U.S., August 19, 2026. Amanda Sabga/Pool via REUTERS
Today, Callan would be four years old, Dawson would be turning seven in September and Cora would be eight years old
Lindsay is in a wheelchair after she was left paralyzed from the waist down following a sᩚuᩚiᩚcide attempt shortly after she strangled the kids
Lindsay has been held at the Tewksbury State Hospital in Mᴀssachusetts since 2023
Today, Cora would be turning nine on Christmas Eve, Dawson would be seven on September 30, and Callan would have turned four.
On December 24, 2023, Lindsay “spent time in the TV room or sitting outside her room, utilizing phone and visited with family [sic],” Buckingham read from the records.
On the one year anniversary of her kids’ deaths, medical staff wrote she engaged with both staff and select peers and “was pleasant during interactions,” spending much of the morning and afternoon in her room on her electronics.
also detailed patient from September 30, 2024, which would have been Dawson’s birthday, where Lindsay attended a coffee group and was social with select peers on that day.
After Buckingham read out the notes, Lindsay could be seen shaking her head, appearing to be staring at the prosecutor.
Lindsay could be seen closing her eyes and continuing to shake her head as she took a deep breath moments before Buckingham began to read out a note from what would have been Cora’s sixth birthday in 2024.
Lindsay could then be seen grabbing a blue pen off the defense table and writing down a note for Reddington on a notepad, before clicking the pen and throwing it down on the table.
Lindsay also appeared to say a few words to Reddington.
Lindsay Clancy appeared to shake her head after the prosecution read her inpatient notes on what would have been her son Dawson’s fifth birthday in 2024
Lindsay seen writing a note to her defense attorney Kevin Reddington on August 19
The defendant has , but has become visibly emotional during graphic moments, including the her then-husband made after he found her and during the showing of the autopsy pH๏τos of her children.
While a medical examiner was on the stand, as she became inconsolable, forcing to call an immediate recess.
On the second year anniversary of the killings, Lindsay’s inpatient treatment goal was “to work on my mєntal health and to feel better,” according to hospital records.
On January 24, 2026, just months , Lindsay was visited by her parents after she spent time during the day taking part in a coffee group at the hospital and using her phone.
have been living out of H๏τels in the years since, visiting their daughter at the hospital almost daily.
The notes also detailed how Lindsay took her medication as directed and was encouraged to take part in group activities.
“I didn’t hear that she is laughing and partying and having a good time while in the Tewksbury Hospital, did you see anything like that?” Reddington asked Zeizel, appearing to counter the prosecution’s suggestion about Lindsay’s behavior.
“No, Lindsay Clancy has bad days and worse days,” the psychologist replied.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington, and Lindsay’s nurses seen comforting her after she cried uncontrollably during a medical examiner’s testimony on August 12
Paula and Mike Musgrove, Lindsay’s parents have attended every day of her trial
remains held at Tewksbury Hospital, where two nurses join her daily for her trial, helping wheel her in and out of the courtroom after she was left confined to a wheelchair following her sᩚuᩚiᩚcide attempt.
On January 24, 2023, Lindsay strangled Cora, Dawson and Callan while her then-husband Patrick was briefly out of the house, and takeout for him and Lindsay.
When he returned, and in the backyard after she crushed up pills, cut her wrists and neck and jumped from their bedroom window on the second floor.
Patrick then found their three young kids in the basement of their home, from their necks while
If convicted, Lindsay faces life in prison without parole, but if she is found not guilty, she will be committed to a state mєntal health facility.
💔 STELLA PARTON BREAKS HER SILENCE — What She Said About Dolly’s Health Has Fans Looking Back
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Stella Parton was born May 4, 1949, the sixth of twelve children raised by Robert Lee and Avie Lee Parton in Sevierville, Tennessee — a household defined by noise, limited money, and almost no privacy, the kind of environment that produced strong, determined personalities.
Stella was one of them.
By seven, she was appearing alongside her older sister Dolly on a Knoxville television program; by her teens, she was writing her own songs, though marriage and motherhood pulled music to the margins of her life for a stretch.
The dream never fully disappeared.
In 1967, she recorded a gospel album with her mother and sisters, and later worked clubs in Washington, D.C., before founding her own record label in 1975 and releasing “I Want to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight,” which climbed to number nine on the country charts.
Long before any of that commercial success, Stella had already shown a willingness to take positions others avoided.
At 26, amid backlash against Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for winning recognition in country music, Stella recorded “Ode to Olivia” in her defense — a stand that offered her no career benefit and real risk of criticism, but one she took anyway simply because she believed staying silent was the wrong choice.
That instinct defined the rest of her career: hits like “The Danger of a Stranger” and “Steady as the Rain” (written by Dolly) built a genuine, independent following, including in the U.K., while Stella also worked in New York theater and spoke openly, often controversially, about poverty, domestic violence, and the treatment of women in the music industry.
She was named the Christian Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year in 2004.
Through all of it, she remained defined publicly, more often than not, as simply “Dolly’s little sister” — a label she spent five decades quietly proving didn’t tell the full story.
That same directness is why her comments in the fall of 2025 carried real weight.
Stella had never positioned herself as the family’s image manager or spokesperson; she was, by reputation, someone who believed difficult truths shouldn’t stay hidden indefinitely.
What she described wasn’t dramatic or accusatory — it was a portrait of a woman who had spent years prioritizing everyone else’s needs over her own.
The context mattered.
Carl Dean, Dolly’s husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025 at 82, after a long illness during which Dolly had devoted herself almost entirely to his care.
She later acknowledged that in the process, she’d neglected her own health significantly.
The loss reverberated through the whole extended family — the Partons had lost three brothers in the years surrounding this period, compounding grief that, for a family that had once crowded twelve children into a single small home, meant losing pieces of a shared childhood one after another.
Stella herself went seven years without releasing new music during this stretch, later describing the period simply as one shaped by sorrow, while still speaking about the importance of finding moments of laughter within it.
Looking back, one moment reads very differently in hindsight than it did at the time: in late September 2025, Dolly postponed her planned Las Vegas residency, citing health challenges — a rare cancellation for a performer whose six-decade career had included very few of them.
At the time, most fans treated it as a minor, temporary setback.
Stella’s later reflections suggested the signs had actually been building for some time, visible to family in ways the public smile made easy to miss.
That concern crystallized publicly not long after, when Dolly’s younger sister Frieda posted a simple request on Facebook asking fans to pray for Dolly.
What looked at first like an ordinary, well-meaning gesture spread rapidly, sparking widespread speculation about how serious Dolly’s condition actually was.
Dolly herself responded directly within days, appearing in a video from a Grand Ole Opry commercial shoot, insisting with her familiar humor that she wasn’t finished yet — the now widely remembered “I ain’t dead yet” moment that briefly quieted public concern.
In the months that followed, the pattern repeated: reassuring updates about kidney stones, dehydration, and treatment, paired with continued work on new projects, right up until Dolly Parton’s death on August 25, 2026, at 80.
Looking back across that full timeline — the postponed residency, the family’s public worry, Stella’s own account of a sister who consistently deprioritized her own wellbeing — it becomes easier to see what the people closest to Dolly understood well before the rest of the world did: that the warmth and resilience the public saw every time she appeared on camera came at a real, largely invisible cost.
