Patrick Clancy came home to the most horrific scene imaginable. Now, in July 2026, he’s the prosecution’s first witness against his ex-wife Lindsay Clancy — the mother accused of murdering their three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan.
But here’s what makes him the most complicated witness in this trial: he’s also the best thing the defense has going.
The prosecution needs him for the timeline. He’s the only person who can tell the jury what was happening in the weeks before, the day of, and the moments after. Nobody can replace that testimony.
Then the defense stands up to cross-examine — and they’re after something else entirely. Patrick has said he wasn’t married to a monster, he was married to someone who got sick. He says he forgives her. And both he and Lindsay have filed medical malpractice and wrongful death suits against the providers who were treating her mental health, claiming she was never properly diagnosed or treated.
So he’s simultaneously a plaintiff arguing the medical system broke his wife, and the state’s first witness against her.
Same witness. Same testimony. Two completely different points.
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Why he got those bryan Koeberger eyes tho
Scariest looking woman I have ever seen. Worse than Aileen W. She looks like the exorcism of Emily Rose. I can’t shake it. She didn’t have that before.
Wha..wha…wha…WAIT, did they say REMARRIED?? I mean, none of my business or anything, but I’ve never watched and studied enough true crime to know thats a bit sketch.., is there any chance he had anything to do with it?
He did it. He locked her in the bedroom after he drugged her(pills in the car, he did this for month on end) then he k!lled the kids in the basement, went shopping, faked the call., waited longer in his car to make our plausible, went home. Found her and STAYED with her # not once look for his kids (cause knew anyway) stayed with her to make sure she’s not taking or what’s she’s taking. More time to tell her she did this. Convinced her she did this, in the end got away with mur6er.
Those poor babies. As a mother my heart hurts for what their last moments would’ve been like. When I see crime cases about kids i get very upset and also mad cause I wish I could’ve saved those babies. May they rest In peace.
I’m sorry, but I don’t trust that man. The whole changing of the clothes thing put my brain into a tailspin of conspiracies 😑. Wtf was he really doing and why did he lie about it?
I think he may have been cheating and gaslighting her, literally making her crazier. I don’t like any of it one bit.
I remember after having my oldest i had irrational thoughts. Post partum is very very real. Mine was the fear of someone harming my baby girl. I remember thinking what if someone broke into my house and poured hot boiling water on her. While irrational mine was in line of protecting or vengeance type of thoughts. But I can see how it could spiral and be the opposite. This woman knew she had a problem and tried to get help. Help never came. I think what little help she got worked against her. Proper mental health evaluation and treatment is so vital and important. She lost her husband, children and her life because the system failed her. So sad