Patrick Clancy's Lawyer Told Conspiracy Theorists What's Coming

Tony Brueski (0:02)

This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brueski and Robin Green.

Tony Brueski (0:08)

Patrick Clancy's attorney has now released his statement saying Patrick and his family have been targeted by an escalating defamation campaign. I think that's putting it nicely. He says influencers and conspiracy theorists have spread baseless claims that Patrick was somehow involved in the deaths of Cora, Dawson and Callan. He says those claims have threatened Patrick's reputation, livelihood and life. Law enforcement has been notified. That's part of the statement that was made a couple of weeks ago. We had attorney Eric Faddis on here and we were asking, who should Patrick sue first? Because it's been getting insane. I've been saying, Patrick, you need to start suing people to shut them up. I hope to God he does.

I mean, just stop for a second and think about the fact that this statement ever became necessary.

I was shocked when I first started hearing about it, honestly, in this case, that people were blaming Patrick. I thought people were confusing the case with something else at first. I'm like, nah, this is clearly not like, are you mixing it up with something else?

Tony Brueski (1:10)

No, no, people are.

Tony Brueski (1:11)

People came home and Patrick came home and discovered his children. The jury heard his 911 call. He testified about what happened. Nothing presented at trial implicated him in their deaths, he had complete strangers picked through his grief, his forgiveness of Lindsay, his divorce, his new marriage, where he lives, and when he appeared in court. And somehow, oh, and his walks. He went for a walk the other day in New York and had coffee. Holy shit. And somehow turned their suspicion and smiled. Woo!

And turned the suspicion into an accusation. Shavaun, what should have Patrick done? What could have Patrick done to prevent the masses from looking at him and going, you're a baby killer?

Shavaun Scott (2:00)

Yeah, I agree with you. That's probably the craziest thing about this. And someone the other day, again, wrote me on social media and said, well, I don't know much about this case, but everybody says the husband did it, and I'm kind of going along with that. And so I wrote back and said, where, what's the evidence for this? And she said, well, what I'm hearing, not just what I'm hearing, is that he moved on too fast in a way that none of us could have done.

And so my response to that was, if I were his therapist, I would say this grief is gonna be with you for the rest of your life. You're gonna be thinking about this every day.

But what I would advise you to do is create a new life for yourself. You need to find joy. You need to find a sense of purpose. And that will look different for everyone, what that looks like. But I don't think the fact that he moved on, eventually married, as you've said, three years later, and has started a new family, there's nothing pathological about that. That's a healthy thing to do. And as a clinician, I would never say don't grieve. Of course, he's still grieving. He's always going to be grieving. This will never leave him. It's altered who he is. I'm sure it would for anyone. But I think, as you said, Tony, what do you want him doing? Sitting in a dark room, banging his head against the wall forever. I mean, that's not healthy. He's got to build a new life.

Tony Brueski (3:38)

Does Patrick's forgiveness of Lindsay enrage people because they know that they couldn't be that strong to do that themselves? Is that really what it comes down to is people look at Patrick and they see a better man than they are and they know it deep down. They're never going to say that out loud, but they see a better man. They see a better human being. Take sex out of it, male, female, whatever. They see a better soul, a better person who was able to navigate this in a way that they would fail miserably at in every which way imaginable. And they know it because they're that weak willed of human beings. And they see somebody that survived this. And for some reason, they look at that and go, that's threatening. I better demonize that. People do that. And I'm wondering if this is just some weird, twisted prime example of that, where the guy found a way to move on with his life successfully, healthily, as best as you can after something like this, still advocate for the woman who actually did this publicly forgave her.