Patrick Clancy has lived through the kind of horror no parent should ever have to endure.
Now, in his first televised interview since the murder trial of his former wife ended without a verdict, he has revealed that Lindsay Clancy has never asked him to forgive her for killing their three young children.
Patrick said he forgave her anyway.
The admission came during a deeply painful interview with 60 Minutes about the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old.
Patrick explained that he chose forgiveness because he believed refusing to reach that point would consume him from the inside.
The moment is difficult to watch:
In the aftermath of the death of Patrick Clancy’s children, many found it inconceivable that he would forgive his wife, Lindsay Clancy.
On 60 Minutes, Patrick tells 60 Minutes that Lindsay never asked for his forgiveness after killing their three children.
“I think when it… pic.twitter.com/BNNeqwXrzq
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) September 20, 2026
CBS News reports that Patrick returned to the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home on January 24, 2023, and found Lindsay injured outside after she jumped from an upstairs window. He then found the three children strangled in the basement.
Lindsay had asked him to leave the house to pick up medicine for one of the children and dinner for the family. Cora and Dawson were dead when he returned, while Callan was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital with a heartbeat.
Callan survived for four days. Patrick told 60 Minutes that he held the baby, lay beside him, apologized to him, and watched him die in his arms.
During those final hours, Patrick wrote tributes to all three children because he was afraid their lives would be forgotten.
Patrick said Lindsay’s decline began months earlier with sleeplessness, deep depression, and intrusive thoughts after Callan’s birth. She made repeated emergency-room visits, entered treatment for postpartum depression, and received a growing number of prescription medications.
She checked herself into McLean Psychiatric Hospital on New Year’s Eve and was released days later. The children were killed 17 days after the family celebrated Cora’s fifth birthday.
Patrick also described asking Lindsay whether she remembered what she had done. According to him, she said the memory felt like a dream recalled after waking.
The interview also exposed how much Patrick was carrying when he testified during Lindsay’s trial this summer.
He said that during a break before the courtroom played his 911 call, he suffered a massive traumatic panic attack. His heart was pounding so violently that he was taken to an ambulance and offered medication.
Patrick declined the medication because he wanted to return to the courtroom, finish his testimony, and be done with that part of the ordeal.
The footage undercuts the ugly online speculation that treated his controlled appearance on the witness stand as evidence that he did not care.
NEW: Patrick Clancy reveals that he was put in an ambulance during a break in his testimony because recalling his children’s deaths was so traumatic.
“I started having this massive traumatic panic attack. My heart was pounding…”
Heartbreaking. pic.twitter.com/oj3k9TVAIc
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 20, 2026
The legal case remains unresolved.
The Associated Press reports that the judge declared a mistrial on September 4 after jurors deadlocked over whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible. Neither side disputed that she strangled the children.
Her attorneys argued that postpartum psychosis left her unable to distinguish right from wrong, while prosecutors argued that the evidence showed planning and awareness.
Eleven jurors reportedly favored finding her not criminally responsible. The lone holdout, Michael Desronvil, later said he had no doubt she knew what she was doing and believed the physical evidence, witness testimony, and prosecution’s case proved planning.
Plymouth County prosecutors have not yet publicly announced whether they will retry her. Lindsay remains in custody at Tewksbury Hospital while the next stage of the case is decided.
Patrick told 60 Minutes that Lindsay said she remembers killing the children as if it were a dream. She has admitted the acts, but the entire criminal case has turned on her mental state and legal responsibility at the time.
Matt Walsh argued that the absence of an apology or request for forgiveness destroys the claim that Lindsay’s state was temporary and has passed.
Wow. Lindsay Clancy hasn’t even asked forgiveness for murdering all of her children. No remorse at all. That fact alone completely destroys any “temporary insanity” claim. https://t.co/BNNeqwXrzq
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) September 20, 2026
A jury may eventually be asked to decide the legal question again.
But nothing about that future proceeding can restore Cora, Dawson, and Callan to the father who still dreams about them, keeps their toys and photographs close, and has now had to explain his grief to strangers who mistook composure for indifference.
Patrick Clancy’s forgiveness is his to give. The truth about what happened to his children, and whether justice will finally follow, still belongs before a court.
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