Medical Examiner Details Baby Callan's Autopsy In Lindsay Clancy's Murder Trial
Meghann Cuniff
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Warning: This video contains graphic testimony.
Kimberly Springer, a medical examiner in Boston, testified this morning about 8-month old Callan Patrick Clancy's autopsy.
Springer is a witness in Callan's mother's murder trial. Lindsay Clancy acknowledges killing Callan and his sister, 5-year-old Cora, and brother, 3-year-old Dawson. Her defense is she's not guilty by reason of insanity because she was psychotic due to postpartum mental health problems.
01:06 "An autopsy is a tool by which we examine the whole body in an effort to determine cause of death, and it's comprised of two parts: an external examination where we look for identifying characteristics such as height and weight, evidence of medical therapy, and evidence of trauma and disease."
"We may take evidence as appropriate, and then we turn to the internal examination, making surgical-like incisions, and examining each of the internal organs again, looking for evidence of trauma and disease, and taking additional samples for other tests such as toxicology."
03:19 "In general, he was we measured him at 26 inches long and 24 pounds. He had general edema, and that those are the general."
04:25 Judge William Sullivan to jury:
"I just want to remind you that sometimes evidence is presented in the trial that creates emotional reactions, and and but as jurors who've taken an oath to follow the law, I'm instructing you as I did last week that you must separate any emotional reaction on your part from the informational value and the weight from the evidence."
"You must not be influenced in any way by the unpleasant nature of the photographs and testimony that you're going to hear this morning, or throughout the whole trial as well. So you must find the facts in this case based only on the evidence, but you can't find those facts or base those facts on sympathy, anger, passion, prejudice, or pity against either side. So I appreciate that. I just kind of wanted to remind you of that, and with that, come on."
06:57 "This is a another photograph showing a bit more closely again the abrasions of the neck. There's one on the front of the neck, the one, the shorter one that's about half an inch long by 1/16 inch."
08:26 "So these again are the abrasions on the left side of his neck, and there's the one on the front of his neck. In addition, on the left side of his forehead is a 3/16 inch by 1/16 inch abrasion, and I think you can also begin to see petechial hemorrhages, which are dot-like hemorrhages underneath the skin on the face."
14:01 "It is consistent with a ligature strangulation, given that the abrasions are linear around his neck, and there are particular hemorrhages above the those lines of abrasion."
16:22 "And based on your examination of Callan, did you come to a determination based on your training and experience to a reasonable degree of medical certainty as to the cause of his death?"
"Yes."
"And what was that?"
"Complications of mechanical asphyxia."
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Medical Examiner Details Baby Callan's Autopsy In Lindsay Clancy's Murder Trial
Meghann Cuniff
155,607 views
Warning: This video contains graphic testimony.
Kimberly Springer, a medical examiner in Boston, testified this morning about 8-month old Callan Patrick Clancy's autopsy.
Springer is a witness in Callan's mother's murder trial. Lindsay Clancy acknowledges killing Callan and his sister, 5-year-old Cora, and brother, 3-year-old Dawson. Her defense is she's not guilty by reason of insanity because she was psychotic due to postpartum mental health problems.
01:06 "An autopsy is a tool by which we examine the whole body in an effort to determine cause of death, and it's comprised of two parts: an external examination where we look for identifying characteristics such as height and weight, evidence of medical therapy, and evidence of trauma and disease."
"We may take evidence as appropriate, and then we turn to the internal examination, making surgical-like incisions, and examining each of the internal organs again, looking for evidence of trauma and disease, and taking additional samples for other tests such as toxicology."
03:19 "In general, he was we measured him at 26 inches long and 24 pounds. He had general edema, and that those are the general."
04:25 Judge William Sullivan to jury:
"I just want to remind you that sometimes evidence is presented in the trial that creates emotional reactions, and and but as jurors who've taken an oath to follow the law, I'm instructing you as I did last week that you must separate any emotional reaction on your part from the informational value and the weight from the evidence."
"You must not be influenced in any way by the unpleasant nature of the photographs and testimony that you're going to hear this morning, or throughout the whole trial as well. So you must find the facts in this case based only on the evidence, but you can't find those facts or base those facts on sympathy, anger, passion, prejudice, or pity against either side. So I appreciate that. I just kind of wanted to remind you of that, and with that, come on."
06:57 "This is a another photograph showing a bit more closely again the abrasions of the neck. There's one on the front of the neck, the one, the shorter one that's about half an inch long by 1/16 inch."
08:26 "So these again are the abrasions on the left side of his neck, and there's the one on the front of his neck. In addition, on the left side of his forehead is a 3/16 inch by 1/16 inch abrasion, and I think you can also begin to see petechial hemorrhages, which are dot-like hemorrhages underneath the skin on the face."
14:01 "It is consistent with a ligature strangulation, given that the abrasions are linear around his neck, and there are particular hemorrhages above the those lines of abrasion."
16:22 "And based on your examination of Callan, did you come to a determination based on your training and experience to a reasonable degree of medical certainty as to the cause of his death?"
"Yes."
"And what was that?"
"Complications of mechanical asphyxia."