The horrifying choice that the husband of the mother who murdered their three children had to make upon discovering their bodies has been revealed.
After spending less than an hour away from the family home on January 24, 2023, Patrick Clancy returned to discover Lindsay laying in the backyard.
Shortly after the mother strangled her three children, she jumped out of the window of her home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
Three children—Cora, five years old, Dawson, three years old, and Callan, eight months old—died.
Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead the same day, and Callan died a few days later in hospital.
After the terrifying event, Lindsay tried to end her life, but she managed to pull through.
She was left paralyzed from the waist down, and has since been charged with two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation, and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
Patrick had to make the terrible decision after discovering his three children dead, and he recently discussed it in an interview.
The New Yorker reports the dad ‘removed the bands and begged each child to breathe’.
Eventually, he tried to revive Cora, who was supposedly laying next to her.
“What do you do when you have three kids like that?” Patrick informed the news source. “How do you pick?”
Prior to the incident, Lindsay had been dealing with mental health issues, according to officials.
Lindsay saw postpartum specialists after experiencing severe increases in her anxiety and sleeplessness symptoms during her pregnancy with Callan.
Nonetheless, a severe diagnosis of GAD was never given to her.
Her husband interrogated Lindsay about the incident after she was arrested.
The dad recalled: “I think one of the first things I asked was, ‘Did you plan this? Is that why you sent me out?’”
In her response, Lindsay insisted that her children’s deaths were unintentional.
It was as simple as a snap of the fingers, she said, according to Patrick.
The case surrounding Lindsay remains ongoing, but Patrick has reiterated ‘it wasn’t her making those decisions’, adding that he ‘wasn’t married to a monster’.