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Commonwealth v. Clancy, August 12, 2026
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Medical examiners on the children's injuries and causes of death, and the perinatal nurse's evidence concluding.
Key points
- Callan: injuries consistent with ligature strangulation; cause of death complications of mechanical asphyxia.
- Cora: findings consistent with ligature strangulation.
- Both older children: eye injuries consistent with asphyxial strangulation.
- Six to eight minutes without oxygen flow before brain death.
- Autopsy photographs restricted to juror-visible screens.
Witnesses (4)
Kimberley SpringerCommonwealth
Medical examiner
- Testified about Callan's injuries, consistent with ligature strangulation.
- Cause of death: complications of mechanical asphyxia, complications because he died days after.
Barbara OlsonCommonwealth
Medical examiner
- Performed the autopsies on Cora (5) and Dawson (3).
- Described injuries found on both children.
- Findings from Cora's autopsy were consistent with ligature strangulation.
Renee StonebridgeCommonwealth
Director of cardiac and neuropathology, state chief medical examiner's office
- Both older children had eye injuries consistent with asphyxial strangulation.
- Brain death follows roughly six to eight minutes without oxygen flow.
Rebecca JollottaCommonwealth
Psychiatric nurse, South Shore Health perinatal clinic
- Evidence continued from the previous day.
- The defendant complained her medications were not working quickly enough and might be making her worse.
- First saw her in November 2022, by which point she had been under Dr. Tufts's care for weeks.
Exhibits and evidence
- Autopsy photographs, displayed only on juror-visible screens
Procedural
- -The defendant wept audibly during the autopsy evidence; several jurors were visibly upset.