Patrick Clancy: The Man Who Forgave the Unforgivable
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Tony Brueski
4.2 • 612 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In the days after the deaths of his three children, Patrick Clancy released a public statement. He said he was completely lost without them. And then he said he had already forgiven Lindsay, and asked the country to follow.
Part 4 of the Lindsay Clancy five-part series covers the human response to one of the most divisive criminal cases in recent memory — centering on a man whose choice to stay rather than condemn set off a debate that has never stopped.
Tony Brueski traces Patrick's full arc from the forgiveness statement through his October 2024 New Yorker interview, the January 2026 wrongful death filing against the medical providers, and the February 2026 courthouse moment where Lindsay appeared in a wheelchair for the first time and her parents stood outside in tears. He covers the community of mothers who wrote to the court in Lindsay's support, the counter-narrative demanding full accountability, and what it means to carry grief and love simultaneously when the world expects you to choose between them.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. Here now, Tony Bruske. Patrick Clancy went to pick up dinner. |
| 0:10.7 | That sentence carries more weight than it should. And if you've been following along in our series this week about the Lindsay Clancy case. You already know why. |
| 0:24.1 | Just joining us, let's get into it. He left the house on Summer Street in Duxbury on the evening |
| 0:33.6 | of January 24, 2023. To run an errand, his wife had texted him about takeout from a |
| 0:39.6 | restaurant, a stop at CVS, an ordinary Tuesday night for most. He came home and his wife was lying |
| 0:48.3 | injured in the backyard. His three children were in the basement. Cora was five, Dawson was three, |
| 0:53.5 | Caldlin was eight months old. |
| 0:56.4 | He called 911. |
| 0:58.0 | He stood in that backyard while officers arrived. |
| 1:00.2 | He went into that house and reached the basement |
| 1:03.1 | and reportedly yelled three words |
| 1:04.8 | that the first responders who heard them |
| 1:07.5 | have apparently never forgotten. |
| 1:10.7 | And then the days it followed before the country had caught its breath, who heard them have apparently never forgotten. |
| 1:14.9 | And then the days it followed before the country had caught its breath, |
| 1:19.5 | before most people had even processed the news out of Duxbury, |
| 1:22.9 | Patrick Clancy released a written statement. |
| 1:30.8 | He said the shock in pain were excruciating and relentless he said cora dawson and calen were the essence of his life that he was completely lost without them if you're a parent |
| 1:41.5 | you're probably running this through your prism and you're like, yeah. |
| 1:51.0 | That's how I feel about my living kids. |
| 1:54.7 | I can't imagine speaking of them in the past tense like that. |
| 2:07.4 | Yeah. past tense like that. Then he said something that stopped people in their tracks, |
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