Boston killer nurse Lindsay Clancys husband reveals their haunting phone call on the day she murdered their kids

The grieving husband of a nurse who killed their three children has revealed their haunting phone call that day and the chilling reason why she strangled them.

Patrick Clancy returned home to find Lindsay with slashes on her neck and wrists and Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, dead in the basement.

His wife had brutally killed them before flinging herself out of the window at their mansion in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023.

In a heartbreaking new interview Patrick talked through his steps that fateful day and opened up about how he and Lindsay - who is now paralyzed - have interacted since.

In one chilling extract he told the New Yorker he had called her from a CVS store and when she rang him back she was normal but seemed to be in the middle of something.

Patrick returned home that day to find his children strangled to death in the basement

Yet, he says, he does not blame her for the vile killings she committed. I wasnt married to a monster, I was married to someone who got sick, he said.

He told how she had been suffering from anxiety and was institutionalized in the months before the brutal killings.

He also said that just a few days before her arraignment in October, he got a voice mail from a phone number he did not recognize - only to later find out it was Lindsay, calling from a psychologists phone number to say she loved him.

When he called back the next day, Lindsay explained she heard a voice commanding her to kill the children and then herself because it was her last chance.

She did not sound like my wife, Clancy said of the phone call. 

Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, were all killed

He returned to their Duxbury, Massachusetts home to find Lindsay semi-conscious in the backyard and the children with exercise bands still around their necks

It took another six months before the couple spoke again, and Lindsay told her husband how every day was the worst day of her life, the New Yorker reports.

She misses her kids, Clancy said. Which I know sounds crazy to some people. But thats the reality.

Lindsays friends have also previously told how she often joked about having enough children to fill a baseball team, and said she was born to be a mother.

But Lindsay apparently started to struggle with anxiety shortly after the birth of her youngest son, Callan, who was killed when he was just eight months old.

She told Patrick she wanted to go onto Zoloft as she prepared to return to work, and started seeing a virtual therapist.

Those virtual visits, though, were more centered on medication management, Patrick said.

Patrick Clancy has revealed the horrifying phone call he had with his wife, Lindsay, the day of January 24, 2023 as she strangled their three children

Lindsays friends have said she often joked about having enough children to fill a baseball team, and said she was born to be a mother

By mid November 2022, Lindsay lost her appetite and largely stopped socializing.

She also started having trouble sleeping, prompting doctors to prescribe more even more medication. 

Lindsays defense attorneys have since argued that horrific overmedication as a cause of her mental decline, with even prosecutors revealing in court that her blood samples found seven different medications.

Investigators found bottles of diazepam, amitriptyline and trazodone, all antidepressants, from the family home. 

All three had been prescribed to Lindsay 16 days before the traumatic incident. 

Lindsay apparently started to struggle with her mental health following the birth of her youngest son

On the day of the murders, Lindsay was worried about her daughters stomach ache

By the end of that December, Lindsay insisted she needed to go to a hospital, telling Patrick: I have thoughts of wanting to die, and I feel numb to them.

At around the same time, Lindsay also confessed to having unwanted thoughts of harming her children, Patrick later told the police. 

Then, in early January, Lindsay checked herself into McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility.

But when Patrick visited her later in the week, they saw a clearly agitated individual pacing the hallways talking to themselves, he told the New Yorker. 

There were people there who were clearly, like, nuts, he said. Lindsay seemed to have it together.

He added that she even texted him, I dont belong here.

She was released from the hospital after just five days with a prescription for an antidepressant, and denied having any more intrusive thoughts. 

Patrick had thought she had been improving, and on the morning of January 24, she even told Patrick she was feeling good and slept pretty well.

She took the young girl to a pediatrician, and asked Patrick to pick up some medication for her

She became concerned about her daughters stomach ache later in the day, and took the young girl to a pediatrician.

Lindsay then texted Patrick at around 5 p.m. to pick up Pedia-Lax for Cora and a takeout meal for dinner.

He did not think much of the request at the time, because he thought she was doing better, he told the New Yorker. 

But, he said, If I could go back in time, Id have called McLean and said, Take her away, lock the door, keep her in there for a year, if you have to.

He noted she seemed really good that day.

So what do you do? Somebodys having a great day. Should I call the hotline? 

Lindsay had been institutionalized shortly before the murders, but Patrick thought she had been doing better

When he returned home, however, he found blood on the floor of the master bedroom and a bloody knife.

He then found Lindsay barely conscious in the backyard, and asked her, What did you do? to which she replied, I tried to kill myself, the New Yorker reports.

Patrick then asked where the children were, to which she replied, in the basement.

That is where he found his children, Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months, with exercise bands still around their necks.

He tried to remove them and begged each child to breathe before they were pronounced dead. 

In the aftermath, Patrick said he asked his wife a few questions about what happened that day.

I think one of the first things I asked was Did you plan this? Is that why you sent me out?, he recounted to the New Yorker.

She said, No it just was like, a snap of the fingers.

He said he then asked why she looked up how long it would take him to pick up dinner, to which she replied she was concerned about him getting stuck in rush hour traffic.

Then I said, Did you Google Ways to kill? And she said, Yeah for myself, because I was suicidal for two months.

Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation and three counts of assault and batter with a dangerous weapon

Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, three counts of strangulation and three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Defense attorney Kevin Reddington, who has indicated that he plans an insanity defense, painted a picture of a woman struggling with mental illness, who had been prescribed about a dozen medications to try and control it.

This is not a situation that was planned by any means, he said. This was a situation that was clearly the product of mental illness. 

But the prosecution countered that Clancy had been evaluated by mental health professionals before and was told she did not have post-partum depression and no symptoms of post-partum depression.

They have also claimed that Lindsay had been researching ways to kill on her cellphone in the days leading up to the murders, and have suggested that her suicide attempt that night was half-hearted and possibly even staged.

A date for her trial has not yet been set.