Did you um ask her anything else? >> I said, "Where are the kids?" >> And what was her response? >> She said, "They're in the basement." >> What kind of a mother was she? >> Um she was very dedicated. She did everything. Um she started reading them books. She made up songs for them. >> Dispatching a medical call. Respond with the police. 4747 Summer Street. and the party jumped off the top floor of the house and suicide attempt 1212. >> It's unknown where the uh knife is >> or whatever she used to uh slit her. Um she's in the looks like they're pinging around the back. We'll uh get that info now. >> I'm going to get all three mutual aid at this time. I'm getting you three mutual aid ambulance. I struck the boss. We got three on the way. >> I got one here. I got four patients total summer street. 30 ambulance in for a suicidal situation. >> On the evening of January 24th, 2023, a family in Dubbury, Massachusetts, appeared to be following an ordinary routine. Dinner was being planned, a pharmacy item was needed, and Patrick Clancy left the house to run a few errands. When he returned less than an hour later, he found an emergency that would change his life forever and place his family at the center of one of the most difficult legal cases in America. >> I'm so grateful for those four days that I had with him. I said, "I'm so sorry." And I got to I got to hold him. I got to lay down next to him. And he died in my arms. What happened that night led to charges against Patrick's wife, Lindseay Clancy, and later to a trial that forced jurors to confront a question the criminal justice system is never fully comfortable answering. When someone commits an act that is not disputed, how do we decide whether that person was legally responsible at the time? >> I started having this massive traumatic panic attack. My heart was pounding and they put me in an ambulance. It's deeply harmful to the legacy of my children. It is a huge distraction from what really matters here, which is perinatal mental health. This is not a simple story with a clean ending. In 2026, after weeks of testimony, competing psychiatric experts, digital records, medical evidence, and deeply emotional accounts from the people closest to the family, the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict. The judge declared a mistrial. There was no conviction, no acquitt, and no final answer from the court. >> Did you eventually move in together? >> Yes. >> Do you remember when that was? >> September 2015. >> And where did you live? >> In Quinsey. >> How long did you live in Quinsey? >> One year. >> And where did you go after that? >> We bought a house in Weimoth. >> And how long did you live in Weimoth? >> Two years. And um was that while you were living in Wemouth? >> Yes. >> Did you have your first child when you were living in Weimoth? >> Yes. >> And what was her name? >> Cora. >> Patrick and Lindsay Clancy were raising three children there. Kora, Dawson, and Ken. Before the case became national news, the family appeared to many people around them to be living a familiar life shaped by work, child care, exhaustion, routines, and the pressure that comes with caring for very young children. >> Were she was in school or was she working as a nurse? >> She was at the MGH Institute. >> And the MGH Institute is like Mass General Hospital nursing program. Correct. >> Correct. She had some kind of like an accelerated course or something. >> Yeah. >> Had double major. >> Yeah. >> Was very good student. >> She was. Yeah. >> And she at a relatively young age got her IN was a nurse at Mass General. Correct. >> Correct. >> And at Mass General um she was a uh they call it L & D, a labor and delivery nurse. Is that it? >> Yeah. Um, do you remember how many years she worked in Mass General? >> Um, I think she started in 2014. >> Um, do you remember when she graduated from the nursing school >> 6 months earlier? >> Lindsay Clancy was a labor and delivery nurse. Patrick Clancy worked from home in the technology field. Their youngest child, Ken, had been born only months before the events at the center of this case. By early 2023, the family had three children under the age of six, and later testimony described the household as one dealing with the practical and emotional strain of a demanding stage of life. >> Lindsay and I worked the night shift together. Um, and often on the night shift, you get to have an opportunity to really get to know your co-workers and celebrate things that are happening in their lives or support them with things that are not going so well. Um, Lindsay asked a lot of questions of her co-workers about parenting. Um, simple things is she would pull the nursing staff about monogrammed lunchboxes. Um, right down to um, sleeping habits. Um, what questions do you ask a daycare provider to make sure that you're in the right place? Um, she was often asking her co-workers um, child care, parenting tips. Lindsay often checked in on her kids while they were sleeping at night. Um, again, we worked the night shift and she had the ability to look at her phone and see what Cora or Ken were doing in their cribs. Um, and she shared that with a lot of us. Um, there was one particular night um that Cora was crying. She was probably about six months old. And Lindsay never let Ka cry. Um she wasn't at that point in parenting and she was very um communicative about that. And Cora was crying on the monitor. It was the middle of the night and I maybe after 10 minutes she started to call Pat and he wasn't answering and she got really worried that Juan Coral was crying but now Pat wasn't answering his phone. Um, so in the middle of the night she she called the police to do a wellness check um on her family. >> In the months before January 2023, Lindseay Clancy sought mental health treatment. The details of that treatment became a major part of the trial because both sides believed the medical records supported their own explanation of what happened. The defense described a woman whose condition was becoming increasingly unstable. Defense experts testified about postpartum psychosis, a rare and severe psychiatric condition that can involve confusion, delusions, detachment from reality, and disordered thinking. The defense argued that Lindsay's behavior, medical history, medications, and reported state of mind were consistent with a serious psychiatric crisis. >> What was the defendant's demeanor when you returned to work? um increased anxiety and um and and definitely, you know, stressed out. >> Do you recall describing her as slightly stressed but in good spirits? >> Um yeah. >> And and when she was stressed out, when she was showing some anxiety, how how did that manifest? >> Um I don't really know how to describe it. But I guess it's just any way you can tell that somebody's stressed out. And um I don't know, she would say, you know, I'm not looking forward to going back to work. I remember once she said, "It's just so unnatural to be separated from your newborn, you know, stuff like that." I'm sad and depressed because I am not able to parent my third child like my first. I want to treat any one of my babies like my first, but I know that's not a feasible possibility. I'm sad that I stopped breastfeeding. I feel not as connected with Cal now. I think I sort of resent my other children because they prevent me from treating Cal like my first baby. And I know that's not fair to them. I know that. I was feeling so depressed last evening when Cor and Dawson came home from school. I know it runs off on them, so we had a pretty rough evening. I want to feel love and connection with all my kids. I'm also probably having a bit of an internal conflict because my whole life I've wanted to have a lot of kids. I still don't want Cal to be our last, but I have a lot of figuring out to do before I have another. I'm on the fence about starting a new medication for anxiety/ depression. I just want to feel happy. I want to be able to relax and take care of my kids. And then and when they go to bed at night, I want to deeply relax and hang out with Pat and then fall into a deep sleep for 8 hours. get up and pour heart into myself for an hour and a half. Cal was so very planned and desired. I want to be able to give him all the love he deserves. I guess that's what it's like to be the third child, though. He's not the first third child to ever exist. I think I know he'll be okay. But it's really hard for me. I hate that he has to put himself to sleep. I'm sad I'm not breastfeeding anymore, but I think deep down these are the right choices. Mom, will you please come up and stay with me for a bit? I'm really sick. Something is wrong. I had horrible insomnia all night and I just don't know how I'm going to get through the day. I started taking the medicine my doctor prescribed for anxiety and I think it's made things worse. It's just really scary and I don't want to be alone. >> On January 24th, the Clancy family spent the day at home. On the final hours of that evening, Patrick Clancy testified that the family had followed an ordinary routine and that Lindsay asked him to pick up takeout food and a pharmacy item. He left the house to do that. When Patrick returned home, he encountered a scene that immediately became an emergency. The court heard the details through his testimony, first responder accounts, and physical evidence. When you got home and you parked your truck, um, how did you get into the home? >> I went in through that side door. >> The door that was, um, to the left of the garage. >> Yeah. >> And what did you do once you got inside the home? >> Um, I started taking my boots off. >> And did you have um some bags with you from CVS and 3V? >> Yeah. >> Where did you place those? on the kitchen island >> when you came into the house and you were taking off your boots and putting things down. Um, was there anything you noticed? >> Yeah, the house was really quiet. >> Is that unusual? >> Yeah. >> And when you you realized it was really quiet, what did you do? >> Um, I called out. >> And who did you call out to? >> Everyone. >> Did anyone answer? >> No. After you called out and no one answered, what did you do next? >> Uh, I think I I don't know the order, but I called down in the basement and no one answered. And then um I called Lindsay to see if she was home cuz I looked out and I I couldn't see her car, but it's because it was dark and her car's black. >> Okay. So, when you you say you um you called down to the basement, when you approached the basement door, do you remember if it was open or shut? >> It was shut. >> So, did you open it and yell down? >> Yeah. >> And there was no response. >> Correct. >> Um and so after you called Lindsay and didn't get a response, what did you do next? >> I started checking upstairs. >> And where did you check upstairs? >> Um first the bathroom. I thought maybe they were taking baths. Um, but there's no one there. >> And then where did you go? >> The kids' bedrooms. >> Was there anyone in the kids' bedrooms? >> No. >> Um, and then did you go to your bedroom? >> Yeah. >> And were you able to get into your bedroom right away? >> No, the door was locked and that's when I knew something was wrong. >> When you unlock the door to your bedroom, um, did you go in? >> Yeah. >> And what did you see when you, um, opened the door and went in? I just saw blood everywhere and the window is open. >> Showing you here a photo. Is Is this um the bed in your bedroom? >> Yeah. >> Now, the way the bed is in this photo um kind of pulled away from the wall and slightly a skew or at an angle, is that the way it was typically? >> No. And when you left the bedroom that day um for the last time prior to coming home later that night, was the bed in that position? I >> I don't think so. >> After making those observations in the bedroom, what did you do next? >> I ran downstairs and went outside. >> And do you recall um whether you came around whether you went out the the front door or the back door? >> I went out the back door. >> So that would be the sliders. Is that right? >> Yeah. >> And where did you go from there? I just looked around in the backyard um below that window and I saw Lindsay. >> And where did you see her? >> Uh she was face up in the backyard. >> And where in the backyard was she? >> At the bottom of the window. >> And did you um observe any injuries? >> Yes. >> And what did you see? >> Uh she had deep cuts on her wrists. Um and she had a red line across her neck. I I wasn't sure what it was at first. Um but she cut her neck. She said, "I tried to kill myself." >> Did you um ask her anything else? >> I said, "Where are the kids?" >> And what was her response? >> She said, "They're in the basement." >> And at that time, she didn't tell you um that they needed help or they were in danger or any or they were injured. Correct. >> Correct. >> Was she breathing on her own? >> I believe so. Okay. And um once um emergency personnel arrive, what do you do? >> I immediately got up and ran to the basement. >> So when you um come down those stairs um that night, which direction did you go? >> Immediately went left. >> And when you went left, what did you see? >> I saw Ka. >> And how did she look? She had a band around her neck. >> And was that an exercise band? >> Yeah. >> And um do you recall whether she was um what position she was in, whether face up or face down? >> She's face down. >> And um when you saw her in that condition, what did you do? >> I immediately ran over and tried to take the band off. >> Were you able to get the band off? >> Yeah. >> And do you recall how you got the band off? I think I untied it. >> And when you say untied it, was it in a knot that you had to, you know, put everything down and unn knot it or how how was it tied? >> I'm not sure I fully remember. >> And um was she responsive? >> No. >> And um what did you see or do next? >> I saw Ken. >> And where was he? >> He was next to her. >> And um how did he appear? >> He had a band around his neck. Sorry. >> He had a band around his neck. >> And did you remove that as well? >> Yeah. >> And do you recall um what position he was in? >> Same as Cora. >> After you removed the band um from Ken's neck, what did you do next? >> I tried to find Austin. >> And um where did you go? >> I looked in the bathroom and um on the other side of the couch and then I went to the other side of the basement and he was in my office. And when you saw Dawson, um, what condition was he in? >> Um, I I knew he was gone. >> And did he also have a band around his neck? >> Yeah. >> And did you remove that band? >> Yeah. >> The children did not survive. The state later charged Lindsay Clancy with three counts of firstdegree murder and additional related charges. Lindsay pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. After the emergency response, investigators collected physical evidence, electronic records, and medical information. >> Would be the clothing um Cora Clancy was wearing the night of January 24th, 2023. First the pajama pants shirt and then the pink robe and then Helen's pajamas. Yellow exercise band found with Dawson, black exercise band found with Kora, and then the blue exercise band found with Ken. >> The defense presented experts who said Lindsay was suffering from postpartum psychosis. Their testimony described a condition that can be severe, rapidly developing, and difficult for families or clinicians to recognize in real time. They argued that Lindsay's thinking had become profoundly distorted, and that she could not understand the reality or wrongfulness of her actions. In closing arguments, prosecutors told jurors that the evidence showed planning and awareness. They argued that Lindsay's actions demonstrated she knew what was wrong and tried to create circumstances that would give her time alone. After the mistrial, Lindseay Clancy's attorney asked the judge to enter a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity. The defense argued that the prosecution had not presented enough evidence to prove criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt. As of September 22nd, 2026, prosecutors had not publicly announced whether they would retry the case, pursue a plea agreement, seek another legal resolution, or decide not to proceed further. 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