Crime
Lindsay Clancy’s Ex Patrick Avoids Court Amid ‘Vitriol’ Against Him as Jury Struggles to Reach Verdict
As jurors remain deadlocked in Lindsay Clancy‘s murder trial, Patrick Clancy is nowhere near the Massachusetts courtroom where his ex-wife’s fate is being decided, staying hundreds of miles away.
Lindsay, 36, is charged in the January 24, 2023, deaths of 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan, whom she shared with Patrick.
The Daily Mail reported on Tuesday, September 1 that Patrick, 38, has opted to remain in New York City with his new wife, fertility expert Rachel Danis, rather than travel to the courtroom, as jurors enter their fifth day of deliberations on Wednesday.
He has not returned to Plymouth Superior Court since testifying during the trial in late July.
Criminologist Dr. Casey Jordan told the outlet she believes Patrick is deliberately protecting himself from intense public scrutiny surrounding the case.
“He’s in a bunker,” Jordan said, suggesting Patrick may be shielding himself from the intense “vitriol “against him.
Online, the case has stirred up harassment and conspiracy theories aimed at Patrick, even though evidence shows he wasn’t at the family’s Duxbury home when the children were killed.
Jordan described Patrick’s online critics as “Vultures picking his shattered bones.”
“We can’t shake our fist at God, so Patrick is next in line,” she told the Daily Mail, adding, “We shouldn’t punish husbands for the sins of their wives.”
Lindsay has admitted to strangling the children with exercise bands before attempting suicide by jumping from a window, an injury that left her paralyzed from the waist down.
She has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, with her defense arguing she suffered from postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors contend she understood what she was doing.
As the Globe reported on September 1, Jurors were sent back after the fourth day of deliberations as they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict.
As of today, the jury has reached its fifth day of deliberations, weighing whether Lindsay can be convicted of murder or voluntary manslaughter, or found not criminally responsible due to mental illness.
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