11.Andrew Chiacchio — Direct/Cross

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Your Honor, the Commonwealth would call Andrew Chiacchio as its next witness.

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Thank you. Good afternoon, sir. Can you tell the jurors your first and last name?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Can you please spell your last name for the record?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And what do you do for work?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And how long have you been with the state police?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And what's your current assignment?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: How long have you been with the State Police Detective Unit?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And what's your current rank?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: I'm gonna draw your attention back to January 24th of the year 2023. Were you still working for the State Police Detective Unit with the District Attorney's office then?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And do you recall being called into an investigation in regards to an incident that had happened in the town of Duxbury on January 24th, 2023?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Were you assigned as the case officer for that investigation at that time?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: But you're aware that a number of the other troopers in your unit were all called out to do different parts of the investigation?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Do you recall if you actually went first to 47 Summer Street?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Were you quickly assigned to go someplace else and do some follow-up investigation?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And one of the places that you went on that night was the CVS in Kingston, correct?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: That would have been at 189 Summer Street?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Why were you asked to go to the CVS in Kingston?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And had you learned information that one of the homeowners, Patrick Clancy, might have visited that location earlier in the evening?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And so when you got to the CVS, did you contact somebody in the store in order to try to determine whether there was surveillance?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And did you speak with an employee there?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Do you recall who you spoke to?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Were you able to get access to the surveillance at that time?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And were you able to observe the time on the surveillance at the store as it pertains to real time?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: So tell us how you determined whether the time was accurate.

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And your cellphone is a department-issued cellphone?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Did you notice any discrepancies in the timestamps?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And after viewing the video surveillance there at CVS, were you able to see Patrick Clancy in the store at CVS?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And fair to say, you were able to track that he arrived at 17:32:32 and exited the store at 17:37:08?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: At some point, were you also asked to look for surveillance at a different location?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: What was the second location?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And where is that located?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And fair to say it's, the address there is 10 Cordage Park Circle?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: What is 3V?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Okay. And why did you go there?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Again, based on information that you had available to you, did you believe that Patrick Clancy had visited that location earlier in the evening of January 24th?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And when you went to the 3V Restaurant, did you speak with two employees there?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Were you able to access the video surveillance?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And while at the restaurant, were you able to confirm Patrick Clancy on their video surveillance?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Now, as far as their video surveillance timestamps, were you able to observe the timestamps at that location?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And did you notice any discrepancies about the time?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And what did you do to confirm the time?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Fair to say you were able to determine that the video surveillance did confirm Patrick Clancy arriving at 17:54:14, that he paid for a bag of food, and he left the store by the front door at 17:55:01?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Now, in addition to gathering the video surveillance... Well, let me back up for a second. So on one particular occasion, you were able to go and view the video surveillance, correct?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: At some later date, were you provided with copies of the video surveillance from both the CVS in Kingston and the 3 V, 3V Restaurant in Plymouth?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And you brought that back to the state police?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: The video.

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Okay. Now, as follow-up for this investigation, did you learn information about the route of travel Patrick Clancy took that night to go from his home to these locations?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Did you do anything to try to ascertain approximately how much time it would have taken him to go to these locations from his home at 47 Summer Street?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Now, do you recall when you did that?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: When you did this mapping of the locations, did it give you approximate distances and times between the locations?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And fair to say, not knowing exactly when it occurred doesn't account for the time Patrick would've been there or any traffic or accidents or anything like that?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Right. But as far as you could tell, you were just looking for approximate timeframes.

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Okay.

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Now, as part of this investigation, you also were involved in some interviews with potential witnesses.

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Is that fair to say? Including Paula Musgrove.

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And who's Paula Musgrove?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Okay. And you also spoke to a former nanny of the Clancy's named Elaine Flaherty?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: As well as the employees from CVS, Angela Krause and Soraya Sweeney?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Did you also, or were you also present in follow-up interviews with all of the first responders to the home in Duxbury on January 24th?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: So that would have been a majority of the paramedics/firefighters from the different towns?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: On June 12th of 2023, did you apply for and receive a search warrant for 47 Summer Street?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And why did you ask for a search warrant then, in June of 2023?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: So to your knowledge, on the date of the incident on January 24th, the stains on the outside of the house were not swabbed and collected by the crime lab, right?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Did you have further conversations with forensic scientists at the crime lab to determine the viability of obtaining additional swabs all those months later?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: So did you speak to somebody at the crime lab about the possibility of obtaining some biological substances from the home?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And as a result of your conversations, did you then apply and were granted a search warrant?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: So, subsequently, some swabs and shingles were collected from the home at 47 Summer Street?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And were you present when that was done?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: On May 15th, 2024, did you have the occasion to go to the Tewksbury State Hospital?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And what was the purpose of going there?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And is there a particular procedure that you, as an investigator, use in order to collect a sample, a DNA sample from somebody?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: So the swab kinda looks like a lollipop—

MS. BUCKINGHAM: ...with a foam end.

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And you're trained on how to swab the inside of a person's cheek on both sides in order to obtain an adequate sample?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And you did that in this case?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Who did you collect the sample from?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And that would be Lindsay Clancy?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Were other people present when you did this?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Who were they?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: What did you do with the sample that was collected from the defendant on May 15th, 2024 at the Tewksbury State Hospital?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Was that sample then later transported to the state police crime lab?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Now, another thing that you did in this investigation some time later was seek search warrants to Facebook, or what's known as Meta, correct?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: As well as a particular Facebook group called Attachment Parenting for Littles?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: As a result of that warrant, did you receive data back from Facebook?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And were you able to confirm a Facebook page in the name of Lindsay Marie Clancy?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Were you also able to confirm that there's a particular post by the person named Lindsay Marie Clancy, or the Facebook page Lindsay Marie Clancy, on May 5th, 2021, to the Attachment Parenting for Littles group?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: I'm just gonna approach. May I?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: I'm just gonna show you a document. Is that familiar to you?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And is this the Facebook post posted by Lindsay Marie Clancy on 5/5/2021?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: I would move to admit this as an exhibit.

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Sergeant Chiacchio, just showing you what's now been marked as Exhibit 217 on the screen. Is that a Facebook post from the Attachment Parenting for Littles Facebook group?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And through the information you received from the search warrant return, you were able to locate the content of this post in the records for the Attachment Parenting for Littles and confirm that it also appeared to be authored by Lindsay Marie Clancy, correct?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: Or by the Facebook page of Lindsay Marie Clancy.

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And fair to say it reads, "Hello lovely parents. I'm looking for some advice, solidarity, ideas, something, anything. I'm truly finding my 19-month-old to be the most difficult human I've ever encountered. I mean that with all love in my heart, but I honestly cannot make it through a day without getting so frustrated with him. He's not my first child, so not to compare, because I know that every child is different, but just for background, this isn't my first rodeo. Every single thing with him is a battle, and it has been this way for a while, since he was maybe eight months old. I really try to pick my battles and only do what's completely necessary, but I mean everything. Getting out of his crib in the morning and going downstairs, changing his diaper, getting him dressed, getting him in his seat to eat, getting him in the car seat, getting him out of the car seat, putting on his jacket and shoes to go outside, having him come inside when it's time, going to sleep for his nap. And at night, he fights me every step of the way with all these normal daily activities. It constantly feels like I have a force...

MS. BUCKINGHAM: "I have to force him to do these things, which feels so wrong, but he is always fighting me and crying about doing these very normal things." You recall seeing that message in the records?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: And fair to say there was some comments to the records, and also an acknowledgement by the person with the Facebook page, Lindsay Marie Clancy, thanking the contributors for their advice?

MS. BUCKINGHAM: I have no further questions.

MS. BUCKINGHAM: No, thank you.