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在三名子女不幸离世三年多后，帕特里克·克兰西仍在难以想象的悲痛中艰难前行，这起案件将他推至聚光灯下，也带来了公众的审视与揣测。
林赛·克兰西的律师从未否认她杀害了三名子女，他们的辩护论点是，案发时她正遭受产后精神病发作，不具备刑事责任能力。但这并未阻止网络侦探们细究帕特里克的行为、拆解他的证词，并质疑他的人品。
这场长达五周的审判成为全美热议的焦点，引发了关于心理健康、刑事罪责以及医疗体系如何未能帮扶母亲的广泛讨论。审判最终以无效审判告终，检方尚未决定是否对林赛·克兰西重新提起诉讼。她的律师已请求法官调查唯一一名试图定罪克兰西的陪审员的行为，并在另一项动议中要求驳回此案。
我们在纽约会见了帕特里克，聊起他的悲痛、前妻与精神疾病的抗争，以及围绕他的社交媒体狂热。以下是采访中几段触动人心的时刻。
与儿子卡伦的最后时光
尽管5岁的科拉、3岁的道森在案发当场不幸身亡，帕特里克的幼子卡伦却奇迹般生还，被空运至波士顿儿童医院。
起初，帕特里克只得知医生成功让卡伦恢复了心跳，对儿子的具体情况一无所知。
“我当时真的以为卡伦有活下去的机会。我记得我当时在想，‘只要给我一个孩子就好，只要一个，我会尽全力抚养他，给他我所能给予的最好的生活。我会告诉他关于他哥哥和姐姐的故事。’我一直抱着这样的希望。但当我赶到医院，见到医生时，从她的表情里我就知道，预后情况不会好，”他说道。
卡伦的心脏维持跳动了四天。
“我真的很感激能和他共度这四天，也很感激他撑了下来，”帕特里克说。
在这四天里，帕特里克说他得以和卡伦交谈、拥抱他。
“我说，‘我真的很抱歉。’我得以抱住他，躺在他身边。他在我的怀里离开了人世。”
在陪伴卡伦的这段时间里，帕特里克坐在床边为三个孩子分别写下悼词，一只手打字，另一只手握着婴儿的手。他说，他害怕如果不把他们的故事写下来，他们就会被遗忘。
庭审播放911电话录音当天的恐慌发作
帕特里克是检方的第一位证人。当他出庭作证时，网络博主们迅速开始拆解他的证词，并散布质疑他人品的阴谋论。
“这对我孩子们的名誉造成了极大的伤害。这严重偏离了这件事真正的核心——围产期心理健康，也给包括我在内的许多真实的人带来了实实在在的伤害，”帕特里克在谈及围绕此案的病毒式传播揣测时说道。
他说，外界的关注让日常生活变得更加艰难。
“看到那些东西真的很痛苦。出门在外变得很困难，而且有可能那些看过一个又一个谎言的人，会开始相信那些说法，而这就是我们现在不得不面对的处境，”他补充道。
这些阴谋论的导火索之一，是帕特里克在法庭上表现得异常冷静克制。
“出庭作证非常艰难，”他回忆起庭审播放他的911电话录音的那天。他记得在那段录音即将被播放前，他到休息室休息。
“我走进休息室，开始经历一场严重的创伤性恐慌发作。我的心脏狂跳不止，”他说。
他回忆说，有人提议叫救护车并给他提供药物，但他拒绝了。
“我说，‘我不要，因为我想回到法庭，完成作证，这样我就能彻底结束这件事。’然后我回到法庭，完成了证词，”他说道。
“悲痛太过沉重，让我变得沉默寡言”
帕特里克说，他在日常生活中总能“不经意间”想起孩子们，但他也会刻意去留存他们的记忆。
“有时候真的很难熬。有人会对我说，‘帕特，你今天话好少。’但他们不知道我的脑海里一遍又一遍地上演着那些画面。他们不知道那个夜晚的场景在我脑海里反复闪现，也不知道悲痛太过沉重，让我变得沉默寡言，”他说。
他努力留住那些美好的回忆——比如科拉第一次坐飞机、道森抓起工具腰带准备动手做项目，以及和卡伦一起坐在游戏围栏里的时光。
“当你这样想起他们时，感觉是美好还是痛苦？或是两者皆有？”罗斯·多塞特问道。
“两者都有。但我热爱这些回忆。我不会刻意回避美好的回忆，我从来不会。那些糟糕的回忆我会回避。我真的尽量不去想它们。那太创伤了，会让人不堪重负。我从来没有觉得美好的回忆会压垮我，我一直珍藏着它们，”他说道。
对他帮助最大的治疗方式
帕特里克说，他找到了一种“有点特别”的治疗方法，叫做眼动脱敏与再加工疗法（EMDR），这对他的康复帮助最大。
这种常用于治疗创伤后应激障碍的疗法，在处理创伤性记忆的过程中，会引导患者进行眼球运动。
“他们会让你重新回到那些你多年来一直试图逃避的场景。你必须直面它。过程很不愉快，但他们会让你逐渐适应应对这种情绪。最终你会更擅长处理这些创伤，”帕特里克解释道。
经过几次治疗后，帕特里克说，“在睡梦中尖叫着醒来”和“可怕的噩梦”大多都消失了。
“那简直就像奇迹，”他说。
他与妻子雷切尔·达尼斯医生的相遇
fertility医生雷切尔·达尼斯医生表示，他们于2024年1月在纽约的一个跑步俱乐部相识，是在喝咖啡的过程中逐渐熟络起来的。
当时雷切尔说，她只希望这段关系能发展成一段美好的友谊，接下来的几个月也确实如此，直到帕特里克参加她的一场跑步比赛，并见到了她患有唐氏综合征的姐姐。
“你们肯定都有某个时刻，或许对你们两个人来说时刻不同，对吧？就是某个瞬间，你突然意识到，‘这就是我们要走下去的关系’，”罗斯·多塞特说道。
雷切尔说，那个时刻是在一场半程马拉松比赛当天。赛后，她和帕特里克以及其他跑步俱乐部的朋友一起庆祝。
“我觉得，通过一个人与有特殊需求的人的互动方式，你能看出很多东西，”雷切尔说道，她形容帕特里克“非常友善”、“非常温暖”。
“我当时并不知道，帕特当时偷偷拍了一张我和妹妹劳伦拥抱的照片，”她继续说道，“我真的非常爱她，而帕特也真正看到了对我来说最重要的东西。”
雷切尔和帕特里克于今年4月在中央公园结婚。
本片视频于2026年9月22日发布。由威尔·克罗克斯顿和简·格里利制作。斯科特·罗桑和纳尔逊·赖兰剪辑。
5 moments from Patrick Clancy’s 60 Minutes interview
2026-09-22T12:55:00-0400 / CBS News
More than three years after the tragic deaths of his three children, Patrick Clancy continues to navigate unimaginable grief as the case thrusts him into the spotlight, bringing public scrutiny and speculation.
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyers never denied that she killed her three children. Their argument was that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time and was not criminally responsible. But that didn’t stop online sleuths from scrutinizing Patrick’s actions, dissecting his testimony and questioning his character.
The 5-week trial became a national obsession, sparking conversations about mental health, criminal fault and how the medical system fails mothers. The case ended in a mistrial, and prosecutors have yet to determine whether Lindsay Clancy will be retried. Her lawyers have asked a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who sought to convict Clancy and, in another motion, to dismiss the case.
We met Patrick in New York City for a conversation about his grief, his ex-wife’s struggles with mental illness, and the social media frenzy surrounding him. Here are some emotional moments from our interview.
Patrick’s final moments with son Callan
While 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, tragically died at the scene, Patrick’s infant son Callan somehow survived and was airlifted to Boston Children’s Hospital.
At first, Patrick didn’t have any details about Callan’s condition other than learning that doctors were able to get a heartbeat back.
“I really thought there was a chance that Callan would live. And I remember just thinking, ‘Just give me one. Just give me one kid, and I would raise him as best I could, and I would give him the best life I possibly could. I’d tell him about his brother and sister.’ And I was holding out hope for that. And then when I got to the hospital, I saw the doctor. I saw the look on her face, and I knew that it wasn’t going to be a good prognosis,” he said.
Callan’s heart kept beating for four days.
“I’m so grateful for those four days that I had with him. And I’m so grateful he hung on,” Patrick said.
During those four days, Patrick said he was able to talk to Callan and hold him.
“I said, ‘I’m so sorry.’ And I got to hold him. I got to lay down next to him. And he died in my arms.”
During those hours with Callan, Patrick sat and wrote tributes to each of his three children, typing with one hand while he held his baby’s hand with the other. He said he was afraid if he didn’t write about them they’d be forgotten.
A panic attack the day the 911 call was played in court
Patrick was the prosecution’s first witness. As he took the stand, online influencers quickly began dissecting his testimony and pushing theories questioning his character.
“It’s deeply harmful to the legacy of my children. It is a huge distraction from what really matters here, which is perinatal mental health. And it’s done real harm to real people, myself included but also others,” Patrick said of the viral speculation surrounding the case.
He said the attention has made everyday life more difficult.
“It’s painful to see. And it makes it difficult to be in public and it’s possible that some of those people after seeing lie after lie after lie, they start to believe it and that’s what we’re left with,” he added.
One of the catalysts for these theories was Patrick’s apparent stoicism on the stand.
“Testifying is very difficult,” he said, recounting the day his 911 call played in court. He remembered taking a break in the back room right before the call was going to be presented.
“And I went to a back room, and I started having this massive traumatic panic attack. My heart was pounding,” he said.
He recalled being put in an ambulance and being offered medication, which he refused.
“I said, “I don’t want it, ’cause I want to go back and I want to finish this so I can be done with this.” And I went back and I finished the testimony,” he said.
“The grief is just so heavy that it makes me quiet”
Patrick said he finds “little reminders” of his children in his daily life, but he also said he makes a conscious effort to keep their memories alive.
“And it’s hard sometimes. I’ve had people say to me, you know, ‘Pat, you were really quiet today.’ But they don’t know the things that are playing over and over and over again in my head. They don’t know that the scenes are playing over and over again from that night or that the grief is just so heavy that it makes me quiet,” he said.
He tries to hang onto the good memories — like Cora’s first plane ride, watching Dawson grab his tool belt to work on a project and sitting in the play pen with Callan.
“When you think about them this way, is it good or is it painful or is it both?” Ross Douthat asked.
“It’s both. But I love, I love the memories. I don’t avoid the good memories. I really never do. The bad ones I avoid. I really try not to think about them. I mean, it’s traumatic and that can be overwhelming. I’ve never felt like the good memories are overwhelming. I hang onto those,” he said.
The treatment that helped him the most
Patrick said he found a treatment that’s a “little unusual” called EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) that has helped him heal the most.
The therapy, commonly used to treat PTSD, involves guided eye movements while processing traumatic memories.
“They put you right back in that place that you’ve been trying to avoid for years. And you face it head-on. And it’s unpleasant, but they get you used to dealing with that. And eventually you’re better at processing it,” Patrick explained.
After several sessions, Patrick said the “waking up screaming” and the “horrible dreams” mostly stopped.
“I mean, it was like a miracle,” he said.
How he met his wife, Dr. Rachel Danis
Dr. Rachel Danis, a fertility doctor, says they met in January of 2024 at a run club in New York. They got to know each other over coffee.
At the time, Rachel said she hoped it would simply lead to a good friendship. And that’s how it remained for the next few months until Patrick came to one of her races and met her sister, who has Down syndrome.
“There must have been a moment, maybe it was a different moment for each of you, right, where the switch flipped, and you were, like, this is something we’re doing,” Ross Douthat said.
Rachel said it was the day of a half marathon. After the race, she met Patrick and some other run club friends to celebrate.
“And I think you can tell a lot about someone when they’re interacting with a person with special needs,” said Rachel, describing Patrick as “really friendly” and “really warm.”
“I didn’t know at the time, but Pat had taken a candid photo of me with my sister Lauren and we were just hugging,” she continued, adding, “I just love her so much, and Pat really saw what matters to me.”
Rachel and Patrick got married in April of this year in Central Park.
The video above was published on September 22, 2026. It was produced by Will Croxton and Jane Greeley. It was edited by Scott Rosann and Nelson Ryland.
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