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Jurors in Lindsay Clancys murder trial retraced her ex-husbands route Friday before walking through the Massachusetts home where the couples three children were killed, a court-supervised visit a retired Massachusetts judge said could help the panel understand the timeline and setting at the center of the case.
The move was reminiscent of another high-profile Massachusetts murder trial that recently captured headlines, when of the top charge during her 2025 retrial.
In Clancy’s case, the 18-member jury panel was driven past ThreeV restaurant in Plymouth and the CVS pharmacy in Kingston that Patrick Clancy visited on Jan. 24, 2023. Jurors were then escorted in groups of six through the familys former home in Duxbury during a roughly 40-minute visit.
They also saw the basement where Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, were found, as well as the yard beneath the second-story window where Lindsay Clancy was discovered seriously injured after attempting suicide. The fall left the woman paralyzed and in a wheelchair.
Jack Lu, who served 16 years as a Massachusetts Superior Court judge and five years as a Boston Municipal Court judge, said that, in his experience, a view is expected in a Massachusetts homicide trial, particularly a case involving multiple deaths.
“The reality is, on a homicide case, theyre always, always going to do a view,” Lu, now a Boston College law professor, told Fox News Digital.
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Lu said the clearest benefit may be helping jurors assess how long Patrick was away from the home and understand the locations discussed throughout testimony.
“Theyre going to dissect the amount of time involved in the husbands trip to CVS,” Lu said, adding that the visit could help jurors understand “what kind of time that Ms. Clancy had” after Patrick left.
Still, Lu cautioned against assuming the view necessarily favored either side or would become decisive.
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“The view is perhaps not obviously crucial to this case,” he said. “It gives them context.”
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A similar procedure was used during Reads 2025 retrial in Massachusetts, where she was charged with killing her boyfriend, Boston police officer John O’Keefe.
Jurors were bussed to 34 Fairview Road in Canton, where OKeefe was found, and viewed the property and Reads Lexus. Prosecutors and defense attorneys directed jurors attention to different details from the case.
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In Clancy’s case, prosecutors allege she intentionally sent Patrick on the errands to get him out of the house before strangling the children.
