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Patrick Clancy, former delivery nurse from Duxbury, Mass., gave his first interview since his ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy, was declared mistrial for killing their three children – Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months) – in January 2023. In the interview with CBS's Ross Douthat, Patrick revealed he speaks to his deceased kids "all the time," asking them for help. The mistrial resulted from a hung jury after an 11-1 deadlock.
Lindsay Clancy’s defense team argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and could not be held criminally responsible. Her ex-husband, who remarried fertility doctor Rachel Danis in April, now lives in New York City and faces ongoing attacks on social media accusing him of involvement in the murders.
Patrick and his new wife will appear together on 60 Minutes Sunday, discussing grief, mental health, and addressing conspiracy theories that have circulated online.
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Patrick Clancy has revealed that he suffered a panic attack and ended up needing medical treatment while giving grueling testimony at his ex-wife Lindsay Clancy's trial.
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The father-of-three sat down with 60 Minutes to share his heartbreak over the deaths of his three children Cora, five, Dawson, three and Callan, eight months old, as well as the toll that their mother's trial took on him.
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Patrick was one of the key witnesses in the case - which ended in a mistrial earlier this month - testifying to Clancy's spiraling mental health and the moment that he returned home to find his children dead.
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Throughout his hours-long testimony, the Daily Mail saw the 38-year-old struggling to contain his emotions, physically trembling, taking deep breaths and wiping away tears as he relived the painful memories from that day in January 2023.
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Speaking about the ordeal to 60 Minutes, Patrick shared that he experienced a 'massive, traumatic panic attack' during a recess in proceedings inside Plymouth County Superior Court, Massachusetts.
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'We did take a break right before they played the 911 call, which I knew was going to be just horrific,' he said.
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'And I went to a back room, and I started having this massive, traumatic panic attack.
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My heart was pounding.'
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Patrick said he was put in an ambulance and offered medication, but turned it down, insisting he wanted to resume testifying.
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'I said "I don't want it because I want to go back and I want to finish this so I can be done with this,"' he said of that moment.
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'And I went back and I finished the testimony.'
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Inside the courthouse that day, the Daily Mail had seen emergency responders entering the room beside the courtroom during a recess, with dispatch audio referring to a juror suffering a panic attack.
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When proceedings resumed, all jurors returned but Patrick did not.
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His testimony was put on pause and two brief witnesses took the stand before he returned a few hours later.
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During his emotional sit-down interview - his first since the mistrial was declared - Patrick opened up about his own mental health struggles since the killings while also sharing his future plans to move forward with his life and start a family with his new wife Dr Rachel Danis.
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Patrick Clancy sat down with 60 Minutes in his first interview since Lindsay Clancy’s case ended in a controversial mistrial
Patrick Clancy with his children Cora, Dawson, and baby Callan before the January 2023 killings
In a case closely-watched all across the nation, Clancy went on trial this July charged with three counts of first-degree murder.
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The 36-year-old labor and delivery nurse, had sent Patrick out of their home in the wealthy suburb of Duxbury, Massachusetts, to pick up medicine from CVS and a takeout order from a local restaurant on the evening of January 24, 2023.
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While he was gone, she strangled the children with exercise bands in the basement.
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She then tried to kill herself, cutting her wrists and neck and jumping from the second-floor bedroom window.
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While Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead that night, Callan had a heartbeat.
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He survived for four days before dying in Patrick's arms.
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'I'm so grateful for those four days that I had with him.
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And I'm so grateful he hung on,' Patrick told 60 Minutes.
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Clancy survived but was left paralyzed from the waist down.
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The mom-of-three never denied killing her children but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, saying she was suffering from severe postpartum depression and psychosis at the time.
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Her six-week trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts, sparked a national conversation about postpartum mental illness and criminal responsibility - quickly capturing attention all across the globe.
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Ultimately, after seven days of deliberations, a mistrial was declared on September 4 after the 12 jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
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In an unprecedented move, it emerged during deliberations that a lone male holdout - since identified as Michael P Desronvil - was refusing to join the other 11 in finding her not guilty by reason of insanity.
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Several jurors have since spoken out to accuse him of showing reasonable doubt but refusing to apply it to the law.
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Desronvil has hired an attorney and released a statement pushing back on their claims, saying he believed Clancy ‘knew exactly what she was doing.’
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Patrick Clancy suffered a panic attack at the courthouse as he gave testimony in his ex-wife Lindsay Clancy's trial
Lindsay Clancy stood trial in July in Plymouth, Massachusetts, for the January 2023 killings of her children
Speaking to 60 Minutes, Patrick revealed that he became suicidal in the aftermath of his children's deaths.
For the father-of-three, who found his children's bodies in the basement of their suburban home, his life suddenly had 'no purpose.
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Everything just came to a screeching halt,' he said, his eyes welling up with tears.
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'And then there was a day where, really without thinking, I drove by their school, and it was at the exact time that all of their friends were getting dropped off, and I just couldn't be there anymore.'
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The grief-stricken father, 38, revealed that he began to suffer from suicidal thoughts and didn't care if he didn't make it to his next birthday.
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'There was a time where I didn't think I would live to see my 35th birthday, and I was completely fine with it,' he said.
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Patrick testified how Clancy had asked him to go to collect a takeout order and medicine that evening.
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He returned home to find the house ‘really quiet’ before discovering his wife lying injured in the back yard.
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In one of the most harrowing moments of the trial, jurors heard Patrick’s gut-wrenching 911 call capturing the moment that he found the bodies of his children in the basement.
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Cora, five, Dawson, three, and eight-month-old Callan were strangled at the family home in January 2023
Patrick Clancy told 60 Minutes that he felt suicidal after his children's deaths in January 2023
Patrick’s primal, unearthly screams could be heard in the call before he cried out: 'She killed the kids!'
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The call has not been publicly released with only the jurors and a small handful of members of the public and reporters inside the courtroom that day, including the Daily Mail, hearing it.
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