Lindsay Clancy: A Mother’s Unthinkable Act

On the evening of January 24, 2023, Patrick Clancy left his family home in Duxbury, Massachusetts to run two errands. He was gone in less than an hour. When he returned, his three children were dying in the basement and his wife was lying paralyzed on the frozen ground below a second-story window.Cora was five. Dawson was three. Callan was eight months old.Their mother, Lindsay Clancy, was a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. Her colleagues described her as the nurse you would want caring for your wife or sister on the most important day of their lives. Her friends described a woman so devoted to her children that she sometimes checked their vitals at home with a stethoscope. Her husband Patrick described the very fibers of her soul as loving.So how did we get here? That is the question this book sets out to answer. What the medical record reveals about the months before January 24 is as disturbing as the night itself, and the full story has never been told in one place until now.This is not a book about a monster. It is not a book that lets anyone off the hook either. It is the complete, unflinching, fully documented story of a family that had everything, a system that failed at every critical moment, and three children who deserved to grow up. Read more