The judge allows the request for interviews with the New Yorker

“He was not married to a monster: he was married to someone who became ill,” Pen Clancy told the journal last autumn.

A school bus passes by an improvised sanctuary outside the home of Lindsay Clancy, who allegedly killed his three young children. Matthew J. Lee/Boston Globe Staff, File

By Abby Patkin

February 12, 2025 | 11:24 am

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The judge who supervises the case of Lindsay Clancy has ordered the editor of The New Yorker To deliver interview recordings Clancy’s husband He gave the magazine for an article the past fall.

Patrick Clancy opened in the October article about the mental health of his wife and his separate life after Lindsay Clancy supposedly killed his three children and tried to take his life at home in Dixbury in 2023.

“I wasn’t married to a monster: I was married to someone who became ill,” said Pen Clancy The New York, Healing his wife’s mental health struggles after the birth of his youngest son.

The Judge of the Superior Court of Plymouth, William F. Sullivan, allowed a motion of prosecutors last week that sought audio recordings, notes and correspondence of the magazine’s interviews with several people, including Pat Clancy, his parents and sisters , friends and an expert in defense filicides.

Pat Clancy is a “perception witness of homicides because he was the first to meet his wife out of his home and the first to discover his children who died in the basement of his home” On January 24, 2023, prosecutors wrote to order.

Pat Clancy also told him The New Yorker Lindsay Clancy called him little before her accusation And he said he had heard a voice that told him to kill the children and herself, because it was their “last chance.”

“She didn’t sound like my wife,” he told the magazine.

Lindsay Clancy faces three positions from each of Murder and strangulation In the death of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3 years old, and Callan Clancy, 8 months. Prosecutors say they strangled their children with exercise bands after sending Pen Clancy to make a message and collect dinner.

“She planned these murders, the time and privacy took during Lindsay. The initial Clancy reading.

Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington has argued that she was overwhelmed and in the midst of postpartum mental illness at the time of murders. He has indicated that Clancy plans pursue a defense of madnessand Sullivan last month ordered him to undergo a psychiatric examination with prosecutors.

Clancy’s trial is scheduled to start in January 2026.