What Day 3 testimony revealed in the Lindsay Clancy trial

Last verified Aug. 1, 2026. For this record, “Day 3” of the Lindsay Clancy trial means Thursday, July 30, 2026: opening statements began Monday, July 27; Patrick Clancy testified across July 28 and July 29; and July 30 was the first-responder evidence day in the current live-coverage record. That mapping matters because day-numbering in coverage is not perfectly uniform, with CBS News Boston identifying ten named first responders on Day 3 while CNN described the witness group more loosely as “nearly a dozen.” [1][2]

The compact answer is this: July 30 was a prosecution evidence day. Ten first responders from Duxbury Police, Duxbury Fire, and Pembroke Fire testified about the Jan. 24, 2023 scene; the defense cross-examined only two of them; Judge William F. Sullivan excused the jury just after noon because the prosecution had run through its scheduled witnesses; and the court then moved toward a July 31 jury view of the former Clancy home, CVS, and ThreeV restaurant. [1]

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Day 3 at a glance

The ten first responders who testified

CBS News Boston’s Day 3 witness list names Stephen Hall, Brian Josephine, Keith Nette, Loring “Chuck” Nudd, PJ Hussey, Patrick Dwyer, Jennifer Stratton, Robert Costanzo, Daniel Dougherty, and Vincent Cahill. That is the cleaner count for later reference: ten named first responders, not an approximate number. [1]

Stephen Hall

Stephen Hall appears in the Day 3 first-responder witness list. The available record reviewed here identifies him as part of the prosecution’s July 30 scene-response proof, but does not support the same level of witness-specific detail reported for Josephine, Stratton, Costanzo, and Dougherty. The defense did not cross-examine him. [1]

Brian Josephine

Brian Josephine’s testimony supplied several of the day’s most frequently quoted facts, and it is worth keeping them tied to his name rather than dissolving them into a general “first responders said” summary. Court TV reported that Josephine described Patrick Clancy screaming, “She killed the f---ing kids!” when officers arrived. [3]

Josephine also testified about Dawson Clancy’s condition, including a white face, blue lips, and bloodshot eyes, and about the response time and bleeding he observed. CNN’s live account reported an approximately three-minute response time and Josephine’s testimony that wounds were “bleeding, but not profusely.” [2][3]

The defense did not cross-examine Josephine. That omission is procedurally more important than a broader paraphrase such as “emotional police testimony,” because it marks which scene observations were not challenged through that witness on July 30. [1]

Keith Nette, Loring “Chuck” Nudd, PJ Hussey, Patrick Dwyer, and Vincent Cahill

Keith Nette, Loring “Chuck” Nudd, PJ Hussey, Patrick Dwyer, and Vincent Cahill are each named in CBS News Boston’s Day 3 witness list. The available reporting reviewed for this record does not provide equivalent individualized testimony detail for these five witnesses. They should still be counted, because they are part of the ten-person first-responder record for the day, and the defense did not cross-examine them. [1]

Jennifer Stratton

Jennifer Stratton’s testimony focused on Callan Clancy. CNN and Court TV reported her description of “deep strangulation marks around the entire circumference of his neck,” and her testimony that she carried him to the ambulance. [2][3]

The defense did not cross-examine Stratton. As with Josephine, that does not convert her testimony into a legal conclusion; it only fixes what did and did not happen at the witness stand on Day 3. [1]

Robert Costanzo

Robert Costanzo was one of the two Day 3 witnesses the defense cross-examined. The questions did not try to retell the whole scene. They went to medical-condition points: Costanzo’s unawareness that Lindsay Clancy had an undiagnosed spinal burst fracture and his acknowledgment that Narcan never fully woke her. [1]

On redirect, prosecutors returned to what Costanzo could actually see during transport. CBS News Boston reported his testimony that, during 18 minutes in a well-lit ambulance, he did not see blood pooling or flowing from Clancy’s neck or wrists. [1]

Daniel Dougherty

Daniel Dougherty was the other first responder the defense cross-examined. The cross-examination focused on hypothermia and its unknown effect on bleeding, rather than on disputing each scene observation through him. [1]

Those two cross-examinations — Costanzo on the spinal injury and Narcan, Dougherty on hypothermia and bleeding — are the clearest Day 3 bridge between first-responder testimony and the lack-of-criminal-responsibility fight in the case. They show the defense testing medical-condition evidence through selected witnesses, while leaving most first-responder testimony untouched by cross-examination that day.

What the defense cross-examined, and what it left alone

That pattern should not be overread as an admission, and it should not be flattened into a dramatic recap. It is a courtroom fact: on July 30, the prosecution used a sequence of first responders to put scene observations before the jury, and the defense reserved its questioning for a narrow set of medical issues.

Exhibits and recordings noted around the Day 3 record

CNN’s Day 3 live account reported exhibits including a yellow exercise band photographed next to Dawson, basement carpet bloodstains, and pajamas. Those items belong in the evidence record, but not as free-floating crime-scene imagery; their significance here is that they were part of what jurors were shown as the prosecution moved through first-responder proof. [2]

The 911 call also belongs in the court-record chronology, with one important limit. WBUR reported that the 911 call was played for the jury, and WJAR reported Judge Sullivan’s order that the 911 call and autopsy photographs not be released. This article does not reproduce, link to, or describe any audio recording beyond those reported court facts. [4][5]

The noon adjournment and the July 31 jury view

The trial day ended early. CBS News Boston reported that Judge Sullivan excused the jury just after noon because prosecutors had run out of scheduled witnesses and the case was ahead of schedule. [1]

The follow-through was the July 31 jury view. The court order allowed jurors to visually inspect the basement and all first- and second-floor rooms of the former Clancy home, but barred them from touching items or opening closet doors. The same order also covered a view of CVS and ThreeV restaurant. [1]

As of the Aug. 1, 2026 verification date, the trial was still in progress. This record stops with the Day 3 testimony, the early adjournment, and the July 31 jury-view order; it does not include later testimony or any verdict.

References

1. Lindsay Clancy trial live updates: Day 3 first responders testify, CBS News Boston, July 30, 2026.
2. Lindsay Clancy trial, CNN, July 30, 2026.
3. Police officer recalls father screaming ‘She killed the f---ing kids!’ at Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, Court TV.
4. Lindsay Clancy, Patrick Clancy testimony, 911 murder trial, WBUR, July 29, 2026.
5. Lindsay Clancy murder trial judge William Sullivan 911 call autopsy photographs children Plymouth Superior Court, WJAR 10, July 24, 2026.