TAXPAYERS may be footing a massive bill of more than $620,000 a year for Lindsay Clancy’s treatment as she remains in a psychiatric hospital following her dramatic murder mistrial.
Clancy, 36, has been held at Tewksbury Hospital in Massachusetts while facing charges over the deaths of her three children.
Lindsay Clancy sits at the defense table as Kevin Reddington in her wheelchair during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court Credit: AP
Lindsay and Patrick Clancy are photographed with their children in happier times Credit: Plymouth Superior Court
The former nurse admitted strangling Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan with exercise bands at the family’s Duxbury home on January 24, 2023, before cutting herself and jumping from a second-story window.
The fall left her paralyzed from the waist down and she has required extensive medical and psychiatric care ever since.
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Now, figures published by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health reveal just how much her continued treatment could be costing taxpayers.
Tewksbury Hospital charges at least $1,700 a day for a resident psychiatric patient, according to the figures.
That works out at around $620,500 for a full year of treatment.
Clancy could potentially fall into the hospital’s more expensive chronic-patient category, which is listed at around $1,850 a day.
That would push the annual cost to roughly $675,250.
The figures were first reported by the New York Post and are based on the state hospital’s published charges, although the exact amount for Clancy has not been publicly disclosed.
Her defense argued she was suffering from severe mental illness and postpartum psychosis when she killed the children, while prosecutors maintained she was depressed but criminally responsible.
For now, Clancy remains at Tewksbury under psychiatric care as prosecutors weigh whether to put her on trial for a second time and her defense fights to end the case.
The Tewksbury State Hospital in Massachusetts where Lindsay Clancy is being treated Credit: Getty
Kevin Reddington, defense attorney for Lindsay Clancy, walks through reporters and television cameras while arriving at Plymouth County Superior Court Credit: AP
Her attorney Kevin Reddington has revealed Clancy is currently on a “24/7, one-on-one suicide watch.”
He said his client was struggling following the 11-1 mistrial.
Clancy has spent much of the three-and-a-half years since the killings receiving treatment at the state-run facility.
The U.S. Jattvibe previously revealed the hospital has been hit by violence, staff safety concerns and contaminated drinking water, with cops called to the sprawling facility around 1,000 times a year.
Clancy returned there after her sensational six-week murder trial ended without a verdict.
Jurors endured 21 days of harrowing testimony before spending seven days deliberating and eventually telling Judge William Sullivan they were hopelessly deadlocked.
The panel ultimately split 11-1, with 11 jurors favoring finding Clancy not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility and one man holding out for a murder conviction.
Juror Paula Devlin, 65, has since revealed new details about the tense discussions behind closed doors.
She said the panel began deliberations split eight for not criminally responsible, two undecided and two for guilty before eventually moving to 11-1.
Reddington reacted furiously to the mistrial, claiming Clancy’s family and the other jurors had been “robbed” by the lone holdout.
He has since filed a motion asking Sullivan to enter a judgment of acquittal rather than put Clancy through a second trial.
The case is due back before Plymouth Superior Court on September 29, while District Attorney Tim Cruz has yet to announce whether prosecutors will retry her.
The potential cost of Clancy’s treatment comes as questions have also emerged over the legal bill from the years-long case.
The U.S. Jattvibe revealed Reddington’s work on a complex murder trial could ordinarily be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, although his financial arrangement with the Clancy family has never been disclosed.
It is understood the veteran attorney may be representing Clancy at a reduced rate after Reddington said her parents were “pretty much depleting everything they have.”
Their resources became so stretched that a judge approved up to $17,500 in public funds for two defense mental health experts.
Court-appointed attorneys handling murder cases in Massachusetts are paid around $140 an hour.
Meanwhile, a GoFundMe set up for Clancy’s parents, Mike and Paula Musgrove, has now raised more than $1.2 million after they spent years supporting their daughter.
The fundraiser’s organizer has stressed the cash cannot be used to pay for Clancy’s criminal defense because of GoFundMe rules.
The mounting costs come as The U.S. Jattvibe also revealed Clancy could potentially make money from telling her own story.
Massachusetts currently has no specific “Son of Sam” crime-profits law in force that would automatically prevent her from being paid for a book, television interview, documentary or other project.
