Crime
“I wasn’t married to a monster — I was married to someone who got sick,” Pat Clancy told the magazine last fall.
The judge overseeing Lindsay Clancy’s case has ordered the publisher of The New Yorker to turn over recordings of interviews Clancy’s husband gave to the magazine for an article last fall.
Patrick Clancy opened up in the October article about his wife’s mental health and their life apart after Lindsay Clancy allegedly killed their three children and attempted to take her own life at their home in Duxbury in 2023.
“I wasn’t married to a monster — I was married to someone who got sick,” Pat Clancy told The New Yorker, outlining his wife’s mental health struggles following the birth of their youngest child.
Plymouth Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan allowed a motion from prosecutors last week seeking audio recordings, notes, and correspondence from the magazine’s interviews with several people, including Pat Clancy, his parents and sister, friends, and a defense filicide expert.
Pat Clancy is a “percipient witness to the homicides because he was the first to encounter his wife outside their home and the first to discover his deceased children in the basement of their home” on Jan. 24, 2023, prosecutors wrote in their request.
Pat Clancy also told The New Yorker Lindsay Clancy called him shortly before her arraignment and said she’d heard a voice telling her to kill the children and herself, because it was her “last chance.”
“She did not sound like my wife,” he told the magazine.
Lindsay Clancy is facing three counts each of murder and strangulation in the deaths of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan Clancy. Prosecutors say she strangled her children with exercise bands after sending Pat Clancy to run an errand and pick up dinner.
“She planned these murders, gave herself the time and privacy needed to commit the murders, and then she strangled each child in the place where they should have felt the safest: At home with their mom,” Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague said during Lindsay Clancy’s initial arraignment.
Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has argued she was overmedicated and in the throes of postpartum mental illness at the time of the killings. He’s indicated Clancy plans to pursue an insanity defense, and Sullivan last month ordered her to submit to a psychiatric examination with prosecutors’ experts.
Clancy’s trial is scheduled to begin in January 2026.
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