Patrick Clancy, the husband of a Massachusetts labor and delivery nurse who allegedly strangled their three young children to death last year, said in a new interview that his wife was not a “monster.”
“I wasn’t married to a monster – I was married to someone who got sick,” he told The New Yorker.
Lindsay Clancy allegedly strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, before hurling herself out a window on Jan. 24, 2023. Her husband, Patrick, told the New Yorker that he had left the house to buy medicine for one of the children.
Lindsay, then 32, sought help from several postpartum mental health specialists for anxiety and insomnia brought on by her latest childbirth. Patrick said she never received more than a diagnosis of severe generalized anxiety disorder, though.
On New Year’s Eve, several weeks before the killings, Patrick took his wife to the hospital after she told him she had “thoughts of wanting to die,” felt “numb” and confessed to having “intrusive thoughts” of harming the three children.
Days after starting an inpatient program at McLean Hospital outside of Boston, Lindsay texted Patrick “I don’t belong here.” She returned to their home in Duxbury five days after she was admitted, telling doctors that she no longer had intrusive thoughts and was prescribed an anti-depressant.
Two days after Lindsay was discharged, she and Patrick hosted a party for Cora’s 5th birthday at a trampoline park. Lindsay had been sleeping better, and her mood during the party gave Patrick “hope” that her condition was improving, he said.
“I think it gave her hope too,” he told the New Yorker.
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