Lindsay Clancy Trial: Husband Takes the Stand | Why is the Public Turning on Him? [oLaJcs0BHgV]
Patrick Clancy spent two hours on a witness stand Monday answering questions about the worst day of his life. By nightfall, a parallel proceeding was underway online, one with no rules of evidence, no burden of proof, and a verdict already in: horrible husband. The central accusation is that he knew and left anyway. The testimony tells a narrower story. Lindsay Clancy disclosed thoughts of harming the children a couple of times, over a night or two in December 2022. Her husband asked her whether she had a plan. No. Whether the thoughts disturbed her. Yes. Whether she felt she needed to be kept away from the children. No. Her parents came to help. He testified he never saw her harm the kids, and that minutes after describing the thoughts she would be making their lunch. No treating provider ever warned him against leaving her alone with them. By his account he never heard the words postpartum psychosis until after his children were dead. And then there is January 16, 2023, a date the internet has not reckoned with. Eight days before the killings, Patrick took Cora skiing. Lindsay spent the entire day home alone with Dawson and Callan, texting photos back and forth. Nothing happened. Her own clinicians had discharged her on January 5. The professionals with the medical degrees did not predict January 24. The discourse asks why a software engineer should have. The other counts against him fare no better under examination. The infamous skiing trip during her treatment: he dropped her at the Women and Infants postpartum program as scheduled and took his three year old to the mountain, and it was the program's own providers who told her to call him for a pickup. The divorce and remarriage: both confirmed, but the filing date, the filer, and the remarriage date appear nowhere in the public record, which means every timeline circulating online is invented. The money: a GoFundMe for medical bills and funerals that Lindsay's own nursing colleagues donated to, and a wrongful death suit he brings not for himself but as personal representative of his children's estates, a suit that, notably, pleads the same overmedication theory as the defense in the murder trial. That last fact is the strangest thing about this case, and tonight's show sits with it. The Commonwealth's first witness has already alleged, in his own civil complaint, that negligent doctors cost his children their lives. The state needs him credible. The defense needs him more. Nobody in that courtroom is calling Patrick Clancy a bad husband. The only venue where he is on trial has no judge. Tonight: the testimony on screen with timestamps, the claims at full strength, the record in response, and the one criticism that survives, the one he levels at himself. We didn't have a diagnosis. We didn't know what was wrong. Court resumes Wednesday, when the Commonwealth finishes its direct examination and Kevin Reddington rises to cross examine a witness who agrees with half of his case. Every source cited tonight is linked below.