Patrick Clancy Reveals Suicidal Thoughts After Children’s Deaths

Patrick Clancy described profound grief and trauma in his first televised interview since a mistrial in his former wife Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial. He recalled finding their children—Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old—strangled at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023; Callan survived for four days before dying in his arms. Clancy disclosed suicidal thoughts, periods when he felt he had no purpose and a severe panic attack during the trial when his 911 call was played, while saying he had noticed Lindsay’s worsening insomnia, anxiety, depression and intrusive thoughts but did not know how to manage her postpartum illness. Lindsay acknowledged killing the children but argued postpartum psychosis, depression, sleep deprivation and medication issues left her not criminally responsible; the jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of that defense, and prosecutors have not said whether they will seek a retrial. Clancy said Lindsay described the killings as dreamlike and that he forgave her despite her not asking. He appeared with his current wife, Rachel Danis, and said online conspiracy theories blaming them were baseless distractions from the need for greater attention to perinatal mental health as they work to honor the children and rebuild their lives.