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    "parsed_content": "Lindsay Clancy TrialThe Trial, ExplainedWhat\u2019s NextPatrick Clancy InterviewHoldout JurorScrutiny of JuryAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTPatrick Clancy Describes Grief in First Interview Since MistrialMr. Clancy said in a \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview that he dreams \u201call the time\u201d about his three children, who were strangled to death in 2023 by his former wife, Lindsay Clancy.Listen \u00b7 5:56 min Share full articlePatrick Clancy, the former husband of Lindsay Clancy, on Sunday\u2019s episode of \u201c60 Minutes.\u201dCredit...\"60 Minutes\"\/CBS NewsBy Maia Spoto and Jenna RussellPublished Sept. 20, 2026Updated Sept. 21, 2026, 1:38 a.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google In an interview broadcast on CBS on Sunday, Patrick Clancy, the former husband of Lindsay Clancy, described the weight of his grief in the years since Ms. Clancy killed their three children in January 2023.Mr. Clancy dreams about his children \u201call the time,\u201d he told Ross Douthat on the program \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d Cora was 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old, when they died.In one dream, Mr. Clancy said, \u201cI\u2019m in the kitchen at the house, and Cora walks in. And I just look at her and I \u2014 it was, like, I basically just said, \u2018Where have you been?\u2019 And she comes up to me and gives me a big hug.\u201dShortly after the deaths of the three children, Mr. Clancy moved to New York City. On the day that Callan would have turned 1, he lit a candle at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in his son\u2019s honor. Then he sobbed on Fifth Avenue, Mr. Clancy, 38, said in the interview, which was his first since Ms. Clancy\u2019s murder trial ended in a mistrial on Sept. 4.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Clancy\u2019s life changed forever on the night of Jan. 24, 2023, when he returned to his home in Duxbury, Mass., after running errands to find that his wife had strangled their children and then tried to kill herself.On the night of the killings, she later said, she heard a voice commanding her to kill the children and herself. Mr. Clancy said she had struggled for months to find effective care for what he described in the interview as \u201cdeep, deep depression, intrusive thoughts.\u201dWhen Mr. Clancy found the children, Cora and Dawson were dead. Callan would live for a few more days. Mr. Clancy said in the interview that he held Callan as he died, and told the child, \u201cI\u2019m so sorry.\u201dHe said he later asked Ms. Clancy if she remembered killing the children, to which she had responded that it had felt like a dream. \u201cShe remembered it much in the way you would remember a dream after waking up,\u201d he said.At her trial for first-degree murder in Plymouth, Mass., this summer, Ms. Clancy\u2019s lawyer argued that she was not criminally responsible for her actions because of her mental illness. Eleven jurors agreed, but one held steady for conviction, and after nearly 40 hours of deliberations, the judge declared a mistrial on Sept. 4.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTDuring the five-week trial, which included testimony from Mr. Clancy about his wife\u2019s mental illness and the night of the killings, the case became an obsession for a huge audience of true crime influencers and fans. As conspiracy theories multiplied online, Mr. Clancy \u2014 still grieving the deaths of his children and trying to rebuild his life \u2014 also had to contend with unfounded speculation that he had committed the killings and framed his wife.Mr. Clancy said earlier this month that he planned legal action against those who had waged a \u201crelentless and destructive\u201d defamation campaign against him.In the \u201c60 Minutes\u201d interview, he said the online campaign had been \u201cdeeply harmful to the legacy of my children.\u201d\u201cIt\u2019s a huge distraction from what really matters here, which is perinatal mental health,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd it\u2019s done real harm to real people, myself included, but also others.\u201dMr. Clancy, who divorced Ms. Clancy and has since remarried, appeared in the interview with his new wife, Dr. Rachel Danis, an infertility specialist in New York City, where the couple lives. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIn the interview, Dr. Danis said, \u201cI can\u2019t bring his kids back. But if I can honor them and allow Pat to grieve, but also just continue to honor them in the present, it \u2014 I guess that\u2019s all I can do.\u201dDr. Danis and Mr. Clancy said in the interview that they are starting a new family. Mr. Douthat, who was a New York Times opinion columnist from 2009 until earlier this year, asked them what they would say to the child.\u201cI think every parent can agree, you have different relationships with your kids, but they\u2019re all your kids,\u201d Mr. Clancy said. \u201cAnd I can\u2019t wait to tell them about their brothers and sister.\u201dMr. Clancy\u2019s decision to speak out about his experience \u2014 and against the damaging public discourse surrounding the case \u2014 followed earlier attempts to temper the tone of the reaction. A few days after the killings in January 2023, as public condemnation of Ms. Clancy reached a fever pitch, Mr. Clancy made his first public statement, urging forgiveness.\u201cI want to ask all of you that you find it deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay, as I have,\u201d he wrote at the time. \u201cThe real Lindsay was generously loving and caring towards everyone.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTProsecutors have not yet announced a decision on whether to retry Ms. Clancy.Testifying at Ms. Clancy\u2019s trial in July, Mr. Clancy described his growing concern about his wife\u2019s state of mind in the fall of 2022 \u2014 and the flicker of hope he had felt in the hours before his children\u2019s deaths, when Ms. Clancy took them into the backyard to build a snowman while he worked from home in his basement office.\u201cShe was having one of her best days,\u201d he testified at the trial in July.Mr. Clancy said during Sunday\u2019s interview that, during a break before the jury was set to hear the horrific 911 call in which Mr. Clancy is heard discovering the children\u2019s bodies, he was put in an ambulance and offered medication for a \u201cmassive traumatic panic attack.\u201dHe declined. \u201cI said, \u2018I \u2014 I don\u2019t want it, because I want to go back, and I want to finish this so I can be done with this.\u2019 And I went back, and I finished the testimony,\u201d Mr. Clancy said.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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