Clancy's co-worker recalls asking her about mother who killed kids, reveals eerie response

PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS: Lindsay Clancy's former co-worker has recalled a conversation with her about a mother who killed her children, an exchange that took on a disturbing significance after Clancy was accused of killing her own three children.

Meg Hamp, a labor and delivery nurse who worked with Clancy at Massachusetts General Hospital, spoke on Thursday, September 10, on Oprah Winfrey’s podcast.

Hamp also described the former nurse as deeply emotional around childbirth and fiercely devoted to her children, saying she never saw anything that suggested the tragedy to come.

Co-worker recalls chilling conversation with Lindsay Clancy

Years before the killings, Hamp and Clancy had a conversation that now stands out.

Hamp told Oprah Winfrey that the discussion came after a patient on their hospital unit experienced mental-health difficulties.

At the time, Hamp asked Clancy whether she had heard of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who killed her five children and was later found not guilty by reason of insanity.

Clancy told her she had not.

Hamp said the answer did not alarm her then. She explained that she was older than Clancy and had lived through the period when the Yates case had become a major national story.

Hamp also said she had not recognized signs of serious mental illness while working alongside Clancy.

Clancy felt emotional during childbirth

Hamp said Clancy appeared particularly affected by the emotional intensity of childbirth.

She remembered occasions when a baby had just been delivered, and Clancy would be standing nearby with tears in her eyes, visibly moved by what she had witnessed.

“I often remember looking up after a baby was born,” Hamp recalled, describing Clancy as a nurse who seemed to feel the moment alongside the mother.

Hamp said that reaction was not limited to women Clancy personally knew.

“She felt that for so many other women, not just her friends or her family,” Hamp said.

That sensitivity was also reflected in the way Hamp remembered Clancy talking about her own children.

According to Hamp, Clancy was constantly interested in parenting and would seek advice from colleagues. She said Clancy’s children appeared to be at the center of her life.

That memory became almost impossible for Hamp to reconcile with what she learned in January 2023, when Clancy was accused of killing her three young children at the family’s home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.

Hamp said she initially struggled to believe the reports. “I knew her address, so I knew something had happened,” she recalled after receiving a call from a colleague.

Clancy’s five-week trial ended September 4 without a verdict after jurors spent nearly 40 hours deliberating and remained deadlocked. 

The final vote was 11-1, with 11 jurors supporting a finding that Clancy was not criminally responsible for the killings and one juror refusing to agree. The judge ultimately declared a mistrial.

The mistrial does not clear Clancy of the charges. Prosecutors have not announced whether they will seek a retrial. A further court hearing is scheduled for September 29.