Patrick Clancy opened up about the deaths of his three children and his life since the tragedy in a new interview with ‘60 Minutes’
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- Patrick Clancy says he first realized Lindsay was “really struggling” in fall 2022, when she began experiencing severe insomnia
- Lindsay was hospitalized in late December 2022 and later entered an inpatient program for postpartum mental health treatment
- Lindsay’s defense says she was experiencing postpartum psychosis when she killed the children; her murder trial ended in a mistrial
Patrick Clancy is revealing when he first realized his ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy, was struggling with her mental health in a new interview with 60 Minutes that aired Sunday, Sept. 20.
Speaking with CBS News correspondent Ross Douthat, Patrick recalled first noticing changes when their youngest child, Callan, was 5 months old in the fall of 2022 and Lindsay had gone several nights without sleeping.
“She came downstairs one morning, and she said — ‘I didn’t sleep at all last night.’ And so I said– you know, ‘That’s awful.’ And, ‘I’ll take the kids to school. You just focus on getting caught up on sleep,’” he said.
Patrick said Lindsay’s lowest point was December 2022. “December was– it was a big struggle for her– just a huge lack of sleep, deep, deep depression, intrusive thoughts, and– at the end of that month she went to the hospital.”
On New Year’s Day 2023, Lindsay checked herself into an inpatient program at McLean Hospital. Later that same month, she killed Callan and the couple’s two other children, Cora, 5, and Dawson, 3, at their home in Duxbury, Mass. She then jumped out a second-story window in a suicide attempt. Patrick came home to the tragic scene.
In an interview on 60 Minutes, Patrick Clancy says he didn’t know how to manage postpartum mental illness when his then-wife Lindsay Clancy was struggling after the birth of their third child.
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Lindsay’s defense does not dispute that she killed the children but argues she is not guilty of murder by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.
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Lindsay’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, has argued his client was in a state of postpartum psychosis when the killings occurred. The defense further claims that Lindsay had for months sought out psychiatric help for mental health issues following the birth of Callan.
Patrick, who testified during the trial, acknowledged in the 60 Minutes interview that he was unfamiliar with postpartum mental illness before the tragedy.
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“No. I could piece together what it was like to be really, really anxious or depressed, but I didn’t know how to manage a postpartum illness,” he said. “I think mental illness has this ability to be tragically deceptive. So I’m sure there are things that I didn’t see.”
Prosecutors have disputed the psychosis claim and argue that she deliberately strangled her children.
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The trial, which lasted more than a month, ended on Sept. 4, when Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
Jurors have since spoken out, saying the jury was split 11-1 in favor of finding Lindsay not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility.
Prosecutors haven’t yet announced if they will retry Lindsay, who is currently in custody at Tewksbury Hospital.
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