Amy Bevins

Amy Bevins testified for the Commonwealth on Day 8 about Lindsay Clancy's outward behavior, medication-related texts and a later rehabilitation visit. Drawing on almost 29 years of friendship, she described Clancy as generally calm and said she had observed no changes in behavior or speech after childbirth. On cross-examination, she described Clancy favorably as a friend and mother and reported nothing out of the ordinary in her interactions with the children.

Under Jennifer Sprague's questioning, Bevins recalled texts a few days before January 24, 2023, in which Clancy attributed unspecified dark thoughts to medication and discussed tapering or changing medications. Bevins characterized the exchange as hopeful. She said Clancy had not expressed wanting to harm herself or the children or reported hearing voices. Bevins did not know what the dark thoughts involved.

Bevins also described a March visit at Spaulding during which they made small talk and played Uno. Clancy did not discuss the children or their deaths, and Bevins tentatively recalled her affect as fairly neutral. On cross-examination by Kevin Reddington, Bevins explained that Clancy's sister had told her not to raise the children or incident. She had assumed this might reflect treatment advice, but did not confirm that providers gave the instruction. When questioned using her police interview, Bevins could not date an earlier Lexapro conversation and distinguished it from the much later texts about dark thoughts.