India, Aug. 10 -- The trial of Lindsay Clancy is underway in Plymouth Superior Court in Massachusetts.

Clancy, 35, is a former labor and delivery nurse and mother from Duxbury. She faces three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children: Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, who was 8 months old.

Prosecutors allege that Clancy strangled her three children with exercise bands in the basement of the family home on January 24, 2023, while her husband, Patrick Clancy, was out picking up medication and takeout dinner.

After the children were attacked, Clancy cut her wrists and neck and jumped from a second-story window in what prosecutors and the defense describe as a suicide attempt. The fall left her paralyzed below the sternum....