In his first interview since his ex-wife’s trial, Patrick Clancy opened up about his grief at losing his three children and said that he tried his best before the tragic killings in Massachusetts.“I think I did the best I could with what I had at the time,” he said in an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday.“And I live with the outcome.
I live with it every day.”Lindsay Clancy, 36, sought treatment for depression and was hospitalized before she killed their three children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in January 2023.Her high-profile murder trial, which ended with the jury split 11-1 and a mistrial declared on Sept.
4, centered on a defense that argued she was not criminally responsible in their deaths because she was suffering with postpartum psychosis.Patrick Clancy said he did not know much about postpartum illness before.“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,” he said.
“So I’m sure there are things that I didn’t see.”Clancy had testified during the trial.He took the stand for two days, recounting the horrors of the evening of Jan.24.
He described running errands at his then-wife’s behest, only to return home to find her with cuts to her neck and wrists after throwing herself out their bedroom window in a suicide attempt.In the basement, he found his children with exercise bands around their necks.
Patrick Clancy is sworn in at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Ma., on July 29, 2026.David L.Ryan / The Boston Globe via Getty Images filePatrick Clancy, who has since remarried, said on “60 Minutes” that he asked Lindsay Clancy if she remembered what happened.
“She said it was like a dream.And she remembered it much in the way you would remember after waking up,” he said.He said the news headlines depicting “kille...