Lindsay Clancy’s coworker reveals what killer mom did every time babies were born at their hospital

A labor and delivery nurse who worked with Lindsay Clancy at a hospital for years says the killer mom would be so moved during births that she would routinely break down in tears.

“I often remember looking up after a baby was born, and Lindsay was my second nurse in the delivery, and just looking over at the mother and Lindsay with tears in her eyes because birth was just so emotional for her,” Meg Hamp said on an episode Thursday of Oprah Winfrey’s podcast, which was centered on Clancy’s trial and postpartum mental illness.

“She felt that for so many other women — not just her friends or her family,” Hamp said of Clancy’s emotions during such moments.

Hamp said she never saw any indication when they worked together at Massachusetts General Hospital that the 36-year-old mom — who fatally strangled her three small children with exercise cords in 2023 — was battling mental illness.

Winfrey asked Hamp about her mentioning during her testimony at Clancy’s recent trial that she and the defendant had discussed the case of Andrea Yates, a Texas mother convicted in 2002 of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison for drowning her five children in the bathtub.

Yates was retried in 2006 and found not guilty by reason of insanity, and committed to a state psychiatric facility where she remains to this day. It is widely believed that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed the children.

Hamp told WInfrey. “We had a patient on the unit that was suffering from some mental-health challenges, and there was just a lot of question around that, Lindsay being a new nurse, and there was another new nurse on the floor at that time, and I just asked [Clancy] if she had ever heard of the Andrea Yates case, and she said she hadn’t.

“It seems like such a big case in the maternal health world, but Lindsay was at that age where she probably hadn’t lived through that – I’m a little bit older than Lindsay,” Hamp noted.

Clancy’s trial ended in a hung jury last week thanks to a sole jury hold-out insisting she was guilty of first-degree murder. Prosecutors have yet to publicly say whether they plan to retry her.

Hamp said she couldn’t believe it when she learned Clancy killed her children.

“I had a phone call from a colleague. We weren’t 100% sure what had happened, but the address was hitting the news, and I knew her address, so I knew something had happened,” Hamp said.

“She loved her children,” the fellow nurse said. “She lived for her children, she did everything for them. She wanted all the parenting tips. It wasn’t possible in my mind that this was a person who could murder her three children.”

Hamp said she is “devastated” at the prospect that Clancy could potentially face a retrial.

When Winfrey asked Hamp what she’d say to people who think Clancy is just an evil person, she began her answer with a deep sigh.

“I think mental health can affect anyone,” Hamp said. “It can affect the person who goes to their dream college, meets the man of their dreams, decides to have a family, buys a house, buys another house as their family grows.

“It doesn’t matter where you are in life or how many boxes on your life’s bucket list you’re checking off as you go, it can impact anyone regardless of where you are in your life, and this has been very eye-opening that someone like Lindsay who was checking off those boxes on her life’s bucket list, that this could happen to her.”