Patrick Clancy remembers returning home to find his children dead – and details of prison conversations with his wife Lindsay, who was accused of murdering them, have been that way ever since.
Patrick Clancy, 33, said in a new interview that he was at the pharmacy on January 24, 2023, buying medicine for one of the children, when he immediately had the feeling that something was wrong at home.
Talking to the new yorker In a piece published on Monday, Patrick opened up about how his wife Lindsay Clancy, 33, has been affected by anxiety and insomnia since mid-November following her third pregnancy. He and Lindsay shared three children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.
On New Year’s Eve, Patrick detailed taking his wife to the hospital after she talked about “thoughts of wanting to die,” feeling “numb” and having “intrusive thoughts” about harming their children. Lindsay spent the next few days in an inpatient program, but texted her husband: “I don’t belong here.”
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Five days after being admitted, Lindsay joined Patrick and the kids for a party celebrating Cora’s fifth birthday at a trampoline park. He told the outlet that her temper that day gave them both “hope” that things were getting better. She was on leave as a labor and supply nurse at Massachusetts Common Hospital.
Encouragingly, Patrick said he began to feel like things were slowly getting back to normal for Lindsay and the family, including that his sleep was better and his overall mood seemed to be improving.
In agreeing to the interview, Patrick said he hopes to put an end to the “lies and misinformation” that have been spread ahead of Lindsay’s upcoming murder trial.
“I wasn’t married to a monster,” he informed the New Yorker. “I was married to someone who got sick.”
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The Day of the Murders
January 24, 2024. That day, Patrick said he woke up asking Lindsay the same things he asked her every morning. “How are you feeling? How did you sleep? That morning, her responses were that she felt “fine” and slept “fairly well.”
He shared that he felt comfortable enough with how things were going to leave his wife home alone with the kids while he went to work, and even take Cora to the doctor with a stomachache on his own.
Lindsay asked him to buy some medicine for her daughter, as well as dinner for the family. Patrick said he immediately felt something was wrong while he was at the pharmacy.
When he tried to name his wife by the brand of medication, he said she did not respond but called him again. He remembers thinking she seemed distracted on that 14-second call. When he returned home around 6pm that night, the house was silent.
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Patrick said he ran upstairs and forced his way into the master bedroom, where he found blood on the floor, the window open and a knife covered in blood on the nightstand. Lindsay was outside, beneath the second-story window.
“What did you do?” Patrick mentioned that he asked his wife, to which she responded, “I tried to kill myself.” When he asked about the children, she said they were “in the basement.”
He said he was already on the phone with 911 when he found his children in the basement with train bands around their necks. Responding paramedics reported being able to hear him scream from the basement, “She killed the kids!” according to the Send New York.
Cora and Dawson were presumed dead on the scene, despite Patrick’s attempts to save his three children. Callan was alive in the basement but succumbed to his injuries later in hospital.
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Communications with Lindsay
Patrick told the New Yorker that his first communication with Lindsay occurred days before her indictment. “She didn’t look like my wife,” he said of the exchange, adding that she looked panicked and claimed a voice told her to kill her children. Patrick mentioned that he hung up after a few minutes.
Six months later, Lindsay’s father informed him that she was “in good shape and in decline,” urging him to name her on her thirty-third birthday.
Throughout this name, Patrick remembers his wife saying that “day after day was the worst day of her life” and “she misses her kids.” “I know it sounds crazy to some people, but that’s the truth,” he told the outlet.
He said he has since started talking to her more frequently and started asking her questions that day.
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“I believe one of the first questions I asked was, ‘Did you propose this? Is that why you sent me away?’” he shared. “She said, ‘No, it was like a finger snap.’”
He then asked why she asked how long it would take him to prepare dinner. She told him she was worried about him getting caught in traffic.
“So I mentioned, ‘Did you Google methods of killing?’” he recalled. “And she said, ‘Yes, for me, because I was suicidal for two months.”
Lindsay’s protection lawyer is planning an insanity protection. The prosecution counters that because she was evaluated by mental health professionals before the murders and was told she did not have postpartum depression — as well as she was allegedly researching ways to kill — they believe they can prove it was premeditated.
Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty to 2 counts of murder, three counts of strangulation, three counts of assault and battery with a harmful weapon. The trial date has not yet been set.
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