The grieving husband of the nurse who killed his three children reveals his haunting phone call on that fateful day “while he was in the middle of something” – and his chilling response when asked why he made it.

The still-grieving husband of a nurse who killed her three children has revealed her horrific phone call that day and the chilling reason she strangled the children.

Patrick Clancy returned to his home in Duxbury, Massachusetts on January 24, 2023 after picking up medicine for his daughter and takeout for his family, and found his wife, Lindsay, lying semi-conscious in the backyard with cuts on neck and wrists. after throwing herself out the bedroom window, and her three children, five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson, and eight-month-old Callan, dead in the basement.

He had called his wife earlier from the local CVS to confirm which brand of medicine to buy for their daughter’s stomach ache, he told the New Yorker.

At first, Clancy said Lindsay didn’t answer, but she called a minute later and sounded like herself as they spoke for about 14 seconds.

But as he recounted the phone call days later, Clancy said he realized he appeared to be on to something.

However, he says, he does not blame her.

“I wasn’t married to a monster, I was married to someone who got sick,” he insisted to the New Yorker.

She explained how she had suffered from anxiety and was institutionalized in the months before the brutal murders.

He also said that just days before his October court appearance, he received a voicemail from a phone number he didn’t recognize, only to later find out it was Lindsay, calling from a psychologist’s phone number to tell him I loved him.

When she called the next day, Lindsay said she heard a voice telling her to kill the children and then herself because it was her “last chance.”

“She didn’t sound like my wife,” Clancy said of the phone call.

It was another six months before the couple spoke again, and Lindsay told her husband that 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 this is the reality.

Lindsay’s 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 it seems Lindsay began struggling with anxiety soon 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 on Zoloft as she prepared to return to work and began seeing a virtual therapist.

However, these virtual visits were more focused on medication management, Patrick said.

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

He also started having trouble sleeping, which led doctors to prescribe even more medication.

Since then, Lindsay’s defense lawyers have argued that “horrific overmedication” was the cause of her mental decline, even as prosecutors revealed in court that her blood samples found seven different drugs.

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.

Later that December, Lindsay insisted she had to go to a hospital, telling Patrick, “I have thoughts of wanting to die and I feel numb to them.”

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

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

But when Patrick visited later in the week, they saw a clearly agitated person walking the halls talking to himself, he told the New Yorker.

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

She added that he even texted her: “I don’t 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 he had gotten better, and on the morning of January 24, he even told Patrick that he felt “good” and was sleeping “pretty well.”

She became concerned about her daughter’s stomach ache later in the day and took the young woman to a pediatrician.

Lindsay then texted Patrick around 5pm to pick up Pedia-Lax for Cora and a takeout for dinner.

He didn’t think much of the request at the time, because he thought it was better, he told the New Yorker.

But, he said: “If I could go back in time, I would have called McLean and said, ‘Take her out, close the door, keep her there for a year, if necessary.’

He noted that she looked “very good” that day.

‘So what do you do? Someone is having a great day. Should I call the hotline?

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

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

Patrick then asked where the kids were, to which she replied, “in the basement.”

That’s where she found her children, five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan, with exercise bands still around their necks.

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

Afterwards, Patrick said he asked his wife some questions about what happened that day.

“I think one of the first things I asked was, ‘Did you plan it? Is that why you sent me?” he explained to the New Yorker.

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

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

“Then I said, ‘Did you Google ‘Ways to Kill?’ And she said, “Yes for me, because I killed myself for two months.”

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 he plans an insanity defense, painted a picture of a woman struggling with mental illness, who was prescribed a dozen medications to try to control her.

“This is not a planned situation 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 postpartum depression or symptoms of postpartum depression.

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

A date for his trial has not yet been set.