Lindsay Clancy's mother, Paula Musgrove, testified that her daughter was anxious, fearful of being alone, and expressed thoughts of harming her children before the murders, supporting the defense's claim of postpartum depression and psychosis.

Musgrove said she noticed her daughter become very anxious in October 2022 and sent a text on Oct. 20, 2022, asking her mother to stay because she felt sick and scared to be alone.

"Mom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit? I'm really sick. Something is wrong. I had horrible insomnia all night and I just don't know how I'm going to get through the day. I started taking the medicine my doctor prescribed for anxiety and I think it's made things worse," the text read. "It's just really scary and I don't want to be alone."

Musgrove traveled from her home in Connecticut to Clancy's in Duxbury the same day and stayed for a week, she said.
Around the holidays, Musgrove testified that she frequently visited and stayed with her daughter, who she described as "not getting better."

"She was afraid to be alone and she actually asked if she could sleep with me" one night in late November or early December, Musgrove said.

Musgrove testified that around Christmastime and into January, her daughter had lost weight, become paranoid and said she felt her mind was not her own.

Musgrove described one scene from December 2022 in which Lindsay, whom she said appeared "nervous," told her and Patrick she had distressing thoughts. "She told us she had thoughts of harming the children," she testified.
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