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Patrick Clancy was the first witness called to testify in the triple-murder trial of his ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy. He spent two days testifying about Lindsay’s downward spiral that culminated in the deaths of their three children.

Lindsay was a “very dedicated” mother who did everything for their kids, Patrick testified.

But Lindsay was grappling with stress, anxiety and other mental health issues that developed in the aftermath of childbirth, according to her ex-husband – problems that grew as she prepared to return to work after their third child was born in May 2022. “She just had a really hard time being separated from them,” Patrick testified.

From September 2022 to January 2023, Lindsay was prescribed numerous medications from several different doctors, “trying to get on the right medication,” he said.

Eventually, Lindsay “described thoughts of hurting the kids or them having some sort of ailment,” Patrick said, adding he wasn’t concerned for their safety because she didn’t show “any intention” of harming them.

The day of the killings, Patrick testified, Lindsay “was playing with the kids, and she seemed in a good mood.”

“She was having one of her best days,” he said.

That afternoon, he left the house to pick up medicine for their oldest child and a takeout order his wife had placed at a local restaurant. While at the pharmacy, Patrick said he called Lindsay but she didn’t answer. She returned his call about a minute later, he said, and the two had a brief conversation about the medication.

“She was pretty quiet. It sounded like she was busy,” her former husband testified. “I remember hanging up thinking she’s probably in the middle of giving baths, or something like that.”

When he arrived back home, he said the house was unusually quiet. The father said he called out to his family and began searching for them, looking in the children’s bedrooms and the bathroom. He then checked the second-floor bedroom he shared with his wife. “The door was locked,” Patrick Clancy said. “And that’s when I knew something was wrong.”

Patrick said he found Lindsay outside, lying face-up and bleeding in their backyard and called 911. When he asked where their children were, she told him they were in the basement, he testified. She did not mention they were injured or needed help, he said.

As first responders arrived and began tending to Lindsay, Patrick went to the basement, where he found their children. Responding officers heard screams coming from inside the home and ran into the basement. There they found Patrick, who looked up and screamed, “She killed the f**king kids!” a Duxbury police officer testified.

About a week after she fatally strangled their children, Lindsay called Patrick from a hospital, he said. “She didn’t talk about our kids, she talked about what she went through,” Patrick testified. “She said she heard a man’s voice telling her that if she didn’t do it now, she would lose her chance – or something like that.”

His former wife had never before mentioned hearing a man’s voice, he said.