OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
9:07 AM – Saturday, September 5, 2026
Patrick Clancy, the ex-husband of Lindsay Clancy, who admitted to killing their three young children, has issued a statement following the mistrial in the case that called into question whether the mother was criminally responsible for the triple murder based on her mental state.
“Patrick Clancy is grateful to the Court and to the jurors for their hard work, their commitment, and their perseverance. The loss of Patrick’s children is something from which he will never recover and from which there will never be closure,” his attorney, David Meier, wrote in a statement Friday afternoon.
“The prospect of reliving this tragedy through another trial is extraordinarily painful — for Patrick, for his family, and for all us,” the statement concluded.
The trial examined not whether Lindsay murdered the children—5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan—but whether her mental health struggles precluded her from recognizing right and wrong and conforming her actions to comply with the law.
Court testimony revealed several reports that Lindsay acknowledged that she was responsible for the children’s deaths.
Dr. Gregory Saathoff, a prosecution forensic psychiatrist, testified that Clancy told him during two interviews in 2026 that a voice issued commands to her on January 24, 2023, and continued until she had strangled all three in the basement of their Massachusetts home.
Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, a forensic psychologist who evaluated Clancy, also testified that Lindsay described feeling as though she was watching herself commit the killings. She also told him, per his testimony, that she told each child while strangling them with exercise bands, “Go to God, baby. Go to God.” Heilbrun interpreted this as evidence that she was conscious of what she was doing.
Patrick also testified that Lindsay called him from the hospital about a week after the children were killed. He said she did not talk about the children directly, but instead talked about what she had experienced at the time of the killings.
“She said she heard a man’s voice telling her that if she didn’t do it now she would lose her chance or something like that,” he reported in the Plymouth courtroom where the trial took place.
Patrick testified that Lindsay had asked him to pick up a children’s laxative from CVS Pharmacy and get takeout for dinner from a restaurant called ThreeV.
During the trial, investigators testified that surveillance footage showed Patrick entering the local CVS at around 5:32 p.m. and exiting at 5:37 p.m. A receipt from CVS also introduced into evidence showed that he purchased the Pedia-Lax and a package of Skittles at around 5:36 p.m. Surveillance video also captured Patrick entering ThreeV at about 5:54 p.m. and exiting shortly after paying for the family’s order, according to investigators.
On Friday, Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial after the 12-person jury declared a deadlock for a third time. Lindsay’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, railed against one juror who reportedly disagreed with the majority’s opinion, urging the judge to have him removed—a request that was ultimately denied to avoid showing bias or intimidating members of the jury.
The judge will reconvene with Reddington and the prosecution on September 29th to discuss the next steps.
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