If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).Patrick Clancy, the father of three young children strangled inside their Massachusetts home, became the first witness Monday in his ex-wife’s murder trial, offering jurors a harrowing account of the mental health decline he witnessed before their deaths.He was the first witness called in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, who faces murder charges in the deaths of the couple's three children in January 2023.Prosecutors argue she acted deliberately, while defense attorneys contend severe mental illness drove her actions.Patrick described watching his then-wife fall into a "big spiral" after she began taking Seroquel, testifying that she lost weight, became severely depressed and began expressing suicidal thoughts."Awful," he said when asked how Lindsay was doing physically after starting the medication.
"That was really where her big spiral started.She started to lose a lot of weight, and she became very depressed, and she was having a really hard time."LINDSAY CLANCY’S HUSBAND COULD TESTIFY FOR HER AT TRIAL OVER DEATHS OF THEIR THREE CHILDRENPatrick Clancy took the stand Monday and described watching his wife fall into a "big spiral" before she allegedly strangled their three young children inside the family’s Massachusetts home.
(Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)Patrick also testified that Lindsay told him she was experiencing intrusive thoughts about harming their children, although she denied having a plan and said the thoughts disturbed her."I never saw Lindsay harm the kids," he told jurors.Patrick Clancy exits Plymouth Superior Court, Plymouth, Mass., on Monday, July 27, 2026.His ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy, is on trial for the murder of their three children.
(David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)Margaret McLean, a former criminal prosecutor and trial attorney who teaches law at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management...