What Happened to Lindsay Clancy’s Home? How Duxbury House Was Quietly Sold to Former DA in Off-Market Deal Just a Year After Kids’ Deaths

The jurors serving in Lindsay Clancy's highly-publicized trial have started their deliberations after an intense five-week courtroom showdown, during which they heard testimony from dozens of witnesses—and even visited the Massachusetts house where the former nurse is accused of murdering her children.

Clancy, 36, who did not testify in the case but has been present in the Plymouth, MA, courtroom for the entirety of the trial, has admitted to taking the lives of daughter Cora, 5, and sons Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan.

However, she has pled not guilty to the three first-degree murder charges she is facing, alleging that she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis at the time of their deaths.

The trial began on July 31, when the jurors traveled to Clancy's former home in Duxbury, MA, where her three children were found in the basement by their father, Patrick Clancy, on Jan. 24, 2023, having been strangled with exercise bands.

According to the Associated Press, the jury was escorted into the home in groups of six and spent a total of 40 minutes at the property, walking through the entire abode, as well as the yard where Clancy was found after throwing herself out of her bedroom window in an apparent suicide attempt.

The visit took place just a few weeks after the property's new owner, former Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Michael C. Phippen, filed an objection to the juror viewing at a pretrial hearing in June, stating through his lawyer that it would be "massively disruptive" to his day-to-day life.

According to The Patriot Ledger, Phippen's attorney, Peter Maguire, told Judge William Sullivan, that his client's domestic partner would be home at the time of the visit, while also claiming that the jurors arriving at the property with their police escort would upset his pets, as well as his neighbors.

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague, who is leading the prosecution team in Clancy's trial, noted that Phippen was made aware when he purchased the home that he may have to open it for a jury visit.

While Judge Sullivan overruled Phippen's objection, he put certain restrictions in place for the visit, limiting it to jurors, attorneys, and any court staff that were deemed necessary. He also barred any jurors from opening any closets or touching any of Phippen's personal items.

When was Lindsay Clancy's former home sold?

Phippen—who served as an assistant DA from April 2016 until December 2018, according to his LinkedIn page—purchased the home from Clancy's husband in an off-market deal in January 2024, almost a year to the day after the killings took place.

Property records show that he paid $675,000 for the three-bedroom dwelling, despite the fact that it was estimated to be worth closer to $800,000 at the time.

After Clancy's trial began, social media users began speculating that Phippen was involved in her case in some way, because it was being handled by the same District Attorney's office that he once worked for.

However, Phippen had not worked as an assistant DA for six years by the time he bought the property and his LinkedIn page shows that he established his own legal office in December 2018—and also now works as an attorney for Stark | Lattuca.

Other than the objection that he filed during the pretrial hearing, Phippen is not thought to have had any involvement in Clancy's trial. He has also never publicly discussed how he came to purchase the home.

The former nurse's husband, Patrick, first revealed that he had sold the property in October 2024, when he took part in an interview with The New Yorker, telling the outlet that he had offloaded the residence and relocated to an apartment in New York in the wake of his children's deaths.

He and Clancy had purchased the property for $500,000 in 2018, according to records.

In the interview, Patrick insisted that he "wasn't married to a monster," explaining how his wife had been suffering from anxiety and insomnia, which were brought on by her pregnancy with Callan.

Weeks before the terrible tragedy, he said, she had been hospitalized before being sent home with anti-depressants. Despite all this, he said that he believed that her only diagnosis was a generalized anxiety disorder.

“I wasn’t married to a monster—I was married to someone who got sick,” he told the publication, adding that he had chosen to speak out to prevent further "lies and misinformation" from being spread.

When will the Lindsay Clancy jury deliver a verdict?

Closing arguments in Clancy's trial took place on Aug. 27, with the former nurse's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, reemphasized his argument that his client was in a "state of psychosis" when her children were killed, insisting that she cannot be found guilty of murder because of a "lack of criminal responsibility."

"This young lady is not guilty of the killing of her children because she was suffering from a disease and defect, as his honor instructed you, and they’re not going to be able to prove otherwise," he told the jury.

Prosecutor Sprague, however, said that—while there is no denying that Clancy was "suffering from mental illness and that she tried to kill herself"—the jury must decide what her state of mind was on the night that her children died.

"What's on trial here, what the issue is here is what Lindsey Clancy did the night of Jan. 24, 2023, and what her mental state was at the time," she said.

Sprague also claimed that witness testimony heard during the trial indicated that she was a "functioning mom" in the months leading up to the killings.

"You know that she knew the difference between right and wrong during that time," she added. "That’s a rational thought ... She knew it was wrong.

At the end of closing arguments, Judge Sullivan dismissed the jury to begin its deliberations, urging them to "have confidence" in the decision that they were being asked to make—whether Clancy was guilty of first-degree murder or the lesser charge of manslaughter.

"Please have confidence in what you're about to do, all right? I have that confidence in you," he said, according to NBC News. "I don't think I've ever seen a more dedicated group of jurors in any trial that I've ever been involved in."

It is not known exactly how long jury deliberations will take, however some legal experts have suggested that they could last for up to a week.