LINDSAY Clancy was giving secret signals as she saw her ex-husband in court for the first time since the night she strangled their three children to death, a body language expert told The U.S. Sun.
Lindsay, 35, strangled her kids with exercise bands in the basement of their Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023 while her then-husband Patrick Clancy was briefly out of the home running errands.
Patrick was the first person called to the witness stand in Lindsay’s trial, where she has pleaded not guilty to three murder charges.
Patrick found Lindsay on the ground in their backyard after she jumped from the second-story bedroom window, shortly after she crushed up pills and cut her wrists and neck with a kitchen knife.
While he called 911, he asked Lindsay where the kids were, and she replied, “In the basement.”
While first responders tended to Lindsay, Patrick went to check on his children where he found five-year-old Cora and eight-month-old Callan on the ground next to each other motionless and with exercise bands around their necks.
He then found Dawson on the other side of the basement in a similar condition.
As Patrick entered the courtroom for the first time, Lindsay appeared to let out a deep breath as she pursed her lips together.
Lindsay’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington revealed to the Daily Mail that this was the first time Lindsay had seen Patrick since the night of January 24, 2023.
Traci Brown, a body language expert, told The U.S. Sun that Patrick walking into court got Lindsay’s attention.
“She was trying to completely check out of the whole situation, and then he walked in and she went “Oh, right,’” Brown said.
“And you saw her go into fear and sadness at the same time. And that’s, that’s her eyebrows.”
Brown said that a person’s forehead is like a billboard, and their eyebrows are the writing on the billboard that gives some insight into what a person is thinking.
“We saw her eyebrows go up. So that’s going to say fear or surprise,” she explained.
“And then we saw the tips of them go up in the middle, that can say sadness.”
“So, she had a lot of emotion going on there,” Brown added.
Brown also picked up on Lindsay rolling her lips a lot in court, which she said is sometimes done by a person “holding something back.”
In his testimony, Patrick recalled the months leading up to their children’s deaths, Lindsay’s mental health struggles and difficulty sleeping and finding them on the night of January 24, 2023.
His testimony on day one of the trial ended when he talked about the last time he saw his children alive.
On the second day, he picked back up, recalling going to CVS to pick up medicine for Cora, grabbing dinner, and then coming back to an unusually quiet house.
Patrick was cross-examined later in the day, where he revealed how Lindsay made up songs for the kids and would read to them.
He was also shown a series of Facebook posts Lindsay shared with family photos in the years before the kids’ deaths.
When he was excused from the stand, Patrick kept his head down as he swiftly left the courtroom.
Lindsay’s head was slightly pointed down with her gaze appearing to be fixated on the table in front of her.
When asked about what she picked up on from Lindsay and Patrick not looking at one another after his testimony, Brown told The U.S. Sun, “I think they’re both trying to keep that separation between them there.”
Lindsay has had a few moments in court where she became visibly upset, but has also kept her gaze down and remained expressionless on other occasions.
She could be seen sobbing in court as the 911 call Patrick made was played for the jury, but muted on the broadcast due to a previous order from the judge.
Lindsay’s hands were over her face as she cried, which Brown said is referred to as “eye blocking.”
“That’s when you don’t want to see something. So you’re mostly keeping information out when you cover your eyes.
“It could be keeping information in. But I think in this case it was trying to keep it out because it’s a painful moment.”
Source : https://www.the-sun.com/news/16804326/lindsay-clancy-body-language-murder-trial-strangling-kids/
