Why Patrick Clancy Still Has To Answer For That Night

**Tony Brueski** (0:00)
This is Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski.

**Tony Brueski** (0:11)
At 4.13 in the afternoon on January 24th at 23, Lindsay Clancy opened Apple Maps and measured the drive from her house in Duxbury to a restaurant in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague told the jury what that measurement was for. Sprague said Clancy wanted to know how long someone would be gone if they ran that error. And 11 minutes before the map search, she had looked up Children's Mirror Lacks. At 4.47 she called the CVS in Kingston herself and asked the manager if they had it. At 5.15 she texted her husband and asked him to pick up Pedialax for Cora, plus dinner on the way home. She hadn't cooked anything she wrote and it had been a long day. He left and a store camera caught him on in the Children's Medicine Isle at 5.32. Online that Aaron is the alibi. Patrick Clancy built it for himself. On the Commonwealth timeline he's running in 62 minutes after his wife timed it.
One is an alibi, one is the Aaron. Patrick Clancy has never been charged with anything. No prosecutor has named him, no detective has named him and his wife's own lawyer told the jury that she killed their children. So has she.
18 jurors have heard every fact this theory rests on under oath and not one of them has been asked to consider him. This theory that Patrick Clancy is somehow the one that caused all of this lives on Instagram and TikTok. You know, the bastions of truth.
The bastions of truth, transparency and honesty that Instagram and TikTok have always been. Accounts run it under headlines like Lindsay didn't trust Patrick anymore, but why? And Patrick wasn't a husband.

**Tony Brueski** (2:15)
He was a fourth child.

**Tony Brueski** (2:18)
Single posts pull hundreds of thousands of views. Humble millions. The claim goes like this. And depending on who you talk to, some people have different variations. Patrick drugged his wife for months, killed the children himself, staged her injuries to look self-inflicted and built an alibi at a pharmacy counter. That's essentially how it goes. Nobody with the power to subpoena a phone record has ever said it. The Plymouth County District Attorney charged one person with these deaths, the Massachusetts State Police investigated and named that same person. Kevin Reddington is one of the most aggressive defense lawyers in Massachusetts. In his opening statements, he conceded that his client is the one who did it. She did. He also told the jury she had no motive because she loved them. The only question in front of that jury is whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible, which means whether her mind was working well enough to hold her to account. If the jury says it wasn't, she doesn't walk out of anything. She goes to a state psychiatric hospital and comes up for review. Judge William Sullivan asked her on August 4th whether she understood what she was signing and she answered him out loud more than once that she did. By signing it, she agreed the Commonwealth would not have to prove certain forensic facts about blood, bands and the DNA. She says, I did it. We have not been contesting the government's case in chief, Reddington told the court. Angela Krauss manages the CBS in Kingston and she was on the witness stand for about five minutes. Lindsay Clancy called that store herself and asked whether the medication was in stock. Krauss testified her voice wasn't slurred or impaired in any way and she called it a very normal interaction. Krauss never spoke to Patrick inside the store. What she handed police was his receipt. Sarah Shelgen works as a hostess at 3V in Plymouth. She testified that Lindsay Clancy placed the take on order herself and that she had no trouble understanding her. She said there was nothing out of the ordinary about the man who came to pick it up. The defense cross-examined neither woman. The phone log covers the rest of it. At 533 Patrick called Lindsay and got no answer. At 534 she called him back and approved a generic brand. That call lasted 14 seconds. He checked out three minutes later and reached the restaurant at 554 Patrick testified the drive home from there ran about 10 or 12 minutes. He was back inside his own house at 609 and two minutes after that he was screaming into the 911 line. All of that is factual. All of that can be backed up with cameras, time stamps, digital devices. It's all there. None of it is in question. Two women working their shifts that afternoon heard her voice and described someone in complete control of what she was doing. A store camera and phone company put her husband exactly where he said he was. Four psychiatric medications showed up in her blood that night. They were Miatsapram, Lemotrigaine, Trazodone, and Quantapine. I might have screwed up two of those names. Every one of them had been prescribed to her by a doctor, not fed to her by her husband. Justin Brower is a forensic toxologist, which means he measures drug levels in blood and testifies about what those levels do to a body. He told the jury the amounts came in within therapeutic range and some of them fell below it. So he wasn't over medicating her as the theory goes. Only one drug registered is elevated at all, it's a plantapine, sold under the name Seroquel, sat roughly 10 times under the concentration a toxologist would call toxic. A prosecutor asked whether those levels could have stopped a person from breathing. Barry said not necessarily that we'd want more information about her overall condition. Then he told the jury what an overdose looks like from a lab bench. People take handfuls of pills when they're trying to end their lives, he testified. And this was not consistent with that. It wasn't consistent with somebody trying to poison her or over medicate her either. Brower was careful about the limits of his own field and he said, Toxology doesn't tell the entire story. That caveat belongs in the record. The theory needs are sedated by someone else. The lab found her own prescriptions at the doses her doctors had written. Prosecutors have a different sequence for the pills, they allege. She crushed and swallowed some of her medication after the children were dead. Patrick Clancy came home to a silent house. He called his wife's phone and nobody picked up. He went to the second floor and found the door to his own bedroom locked. That's what I knew something was wrong, he testified. He unlocked it and the room was empty with the window standing open. The bed had been pushed away from the wall and Patrick testified there was blood everywhere. An interior bedroom lock engages from inside the room. Patrick wasn't locked in that room. He was locked out of it. Anybody inside could have opened that window and walked out any second. On the claim that somebody staged her injuries, the two sides in that courtroom disagree with each other and neither one of them points at her husband. The defense says she cut herself and went out that window trying to die. Prosecutors have suggested she faked it herself and the attempt afterwards. Nobody's pointing at Patrick other than Instagram and TikTok.