Patrick, who has since remarried, took the stand as the first witness in the trial. He testified that Lindsay asked him to pick up takeout on the evening of January 24, 2023. When he returned to their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home, he said he found “blood everywhere” in their bedroom and Lindsay lying in the backyard with “deep cuts on her wrists” and “a red line across her neck.”
A 911 call captured Patrick yelling, “She killed the f—— kids,” after he discovered the children.
During his testimony, Patrick described Lindsay’s mental and physical health following the births of their three children.
“A lot of stress. There were days when she had all three kids, different nap schedules, different needs. It was just really stressful,” he testified.
He also discussed Lindsay’s hospital visits and treatment for insomnia, anxiety, and depression, telling jurors that she “kept getting worse and worse” by the fall of 2022. Patrick said her “big spiral” began after she switched medications in December 2022.
“She started to lose a lot of weight, she became really depressed and was having a hard time. She started to say she was suicidal,” he testified, adding Lindsay had told him she was experiencing intrusive thoughts about harming their children.
Patrick revealed he asked whether she believed she needed to be kept away from the children, and she told him she did not.
“It was very confusing because the next minute she was making them lunch or putting them to bed,” he testified. “I never saw Lindsay harm the kids.”
Concerns about her suicidal thoughts eventually led to Lindsay’s hospitalization on December 31, 2022. She was discharged from McLean Hospital on January 5, 2023.
Patrick testified that on January 16, he went skiing with Cora while Lindsay stayed home with their two other children. He said Lindsay’s mood “seemed better” around that time and described January 24, 2023 – the day the children died – as “one of her best days.”
“She was playing with the kids, and she seemed in a good mood,” he continued.
Patrick’s statements echoed testimony from the Clancy family’s nanny Elaine Rossi when she testified on August 5.
“I observed a wonderful mom who loved her kids,” she said of Lindsay as a mother. “She was concerned about their safety and Callan eating and sleeping. She was a wonderful mother.”