The grieving husband of the woman who allegedly murdered their three children has disclosed the three chilling questions he asked her each morning to check her mental health.
Tragedy struck on January 24, 2023, when Patrick Clancy, the father of Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan, went out to the CVS store and left his children alone with his wife, Lindsey.
When the father returned home after less than an hour, he found his seriously injured wife lying in their backyard, as reported by The New Yorker.
Patrick soon discovered that his wife hurled herself out of their home’s second-story window after she allegedly killed Cora, Dawson, and Callan.
The grieving father recalled the conversation he had with Lindsey, asking her: "What did you do?” to which she allegedly responded: “I tried to kill myself.” He then asked where their children were, and she said: “In the basement," per the outlet.
He called emergency services and then went into the basement where he found his kids with exercise bands still around their necks, and attempted to resuscitate them.
Despite his best efforts to save them, Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead while Callan tragically passed away a few days later.
According to NBC News, Lindsey's defense attorney Kevin Reddington argued that his client suffered from postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis - which is a condition that affects "a person’s sense of reality, causing hallucinations, delusions, paranoia or other behavior changes," per Cleveland Clinic.
However, prosecutors contended that the suspect was told she didn’t have any symptoms of postpartum depression when she was evaluated. She was instead diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder when she sought help in the weeks leading up to the children's deaths.
The father of the three deceased children opened up about his heartbreak in an exclusive interview with The New Yorker, telling the outlet that his wife's mental health seemed to be improving in mid-January.
He recalled the questions he asked her each morning, which were: "How are you feeling? How did you sleep?" the outlet reported. On the tragic day the children died, Lindsay told Patrick that she was feeling "good" and that she'd slept "pretty well".
The father, who had had a busy day of work, left his wife in charge of their kids and even allowed her to take Cora to the doctor with a stomach ache. He hoped the visit would help her come “back to reality” after weeks of improving.
Lindsey, who was a labor nurse, has been charged with two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation, and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Despite admitting to killing her children, she has pleaded not guilty to the charges she's facing.
Defense attorney Kevin Reddington has said the mom is paralyzed below the waist because of a spinal cord injury and a broken back and ribs she sustained during the attempted suicide.
He said that she remains under 24/7 suicide watch. “She’s extremely emotional. However, she’s unable, and has been unable, to express any happiness or sadness or cry,” Reddington added.
A date for Lindsey's trial has not yet been set.
