Trigger Warning: This article contains references to the alleged child murder and suicide that some readers may find distressing.
A forensic toxicologist testified in the trial of Massachusetts mom Lindsay Clancy, who has been accused of killing her three children in January 2023. Justin Brower, a forensic toxicologist with NMS Laboratories, testified in court, shedding light on the levels of four medications found in Clancy’s blood test when Lindsay Clancy strangled her kids and tried to commit suicide.
The four drugs were antidepressant mirtazapine, the antidepressant trazodone, quetiapine, a drug used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, and mood stabilizer lamotrigine. A doctor prescribed them to treat insomnia, depressive, and bipolar episodes during postpartum…