Husband of midwife who ‘strangled her two kids to death’ had left for 25 MINUTES to get takeout food

The husband of a midwife charged with strangling her two young children to death and attempting to kill her seven-month-old baby had allegedly gone out to grab food before the apparent murder-suicide attempt.   

Lindsay Clancy’s husband Patrick had ‘popped out for 25 minutes’ to collect a takeout order on Tuesday night – but he returned to find his wife unconscious after plunging from the second-floor window of their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. 

Their daughter Cora, five, and son Dawson, three, were found dead, with the Clancys’ third child surviving and being rushed to the hospital with injuries. 

Friends of the family now claim that Patrick had started working from home to keep a watchful eye on his wife – who was also in an ‘intensive’ post-partum depression clinic five days a week. 

Father Patrick Clancy was out for 25 minutes to grab takeout for his family when he found his wife, Lindsay, unconscious after dropping for their second-floor window. Inside their home, daughter Cora (left) and son Dawson (right) were dead 

Lindsay had shared that she was suffering from postpartum anxiety following the birth of her third child, who survived the apparent murder-suicide attempt 

Local radio presenter John DePetro reported that friends of the depressed mother said: ‘Her husband was working from home instead of going in to work to be able to try and support her daily while she went to a program 5 days a week for PPD. 

‘And in the 25 minutes it took him to pick up take out, the unthinkable happened.’ 

Investigators are now looking into the possibility that Lindsay, 32, was suffering from postpartum psychosis. The mother-of-three had also previously shared online that she was struggling with postpartum anxiety. 

While Lindsay appeared to be a proud mother on Facebook, she shared about struggling with postpartum anxiety after the birth of her latest child.  

Last July, she wrote that six weeks after the child’s birth, she was feeling ‘dialed in’ and sought to focus on exercise, nutrition and her mindset, which she claimed ‘made all the difference.’ 

In 2020, she wrote online: ‘So unbelievably thankful for this family and life,’ along with doting images of her children, reports Boston Globe. 

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Friends said Patrick was working from home to help 32-year-old Lindsay, who was allegedly attending an ‘intensive’ postpartum depression program five days a week

A memorial of flowers and toys was set up outside the home in Duxbury, Massachusetts 

Lindsay, 32, (left) allegedly strangled her daughter Cora, five, (center right) and son Dawson, three, (center left) to death and tried to suffocate her baby son inside the family home. Her horrified husband, Patrick, 34, (right) discovered the scene 

Feelings of depression can be common after childbirth, but on rare occasions, they can lead to full postpartum psychosis. 

In this extreme form of PPD, a mother can suffer from severe depression and hallucinations, and can lead her to harm herself, her children, or both. 

The mother-of-three was on leave from her job as a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital. 

Lindsay, who is under police custody, will be arraigned once she is released from hospital on charges including two counts of homicide and three each for strangulation and assault and battery with a deadly weapon for the deaths of her two children. 

Officers arrived at the family home on Tuesday after the frantic husband had discovered his wife unconscious on the ground below a second-floor window.

Five-year-old Cora and three-year-old Dawson were pronounced dead on arrival to hospital

Pictured: A well-wisher dropping off items on Wednesday for the memorial over the tragedy that befell the community

Pictured: A car parked in the Clancys’ home with a ‘Baby on Board’ sticker 

They discovered the three young children ‘unconscious’ upstairs ‘with obvious signs of trauma’. It appears they had all been strangled Plymouth District Attorney Timothy Cruz said.

Five-year-old Cora and three-year-old Dawson were pronounced dead on arrival to hospital while the seven-month-old baby was flown to Boston’s Children’s Hospital where he is alive and being treated by medics. Witnesses said the baby had been given CPR at the scene. 

‘We’re all heartbroken right now,’ Lindsay Clancey’s father-in-law, Christopher Clancy, told the Boston Globe.  

On Wednesday, two Plymouth women, Donna Jesse, who identified herself as an aunt of the children, and Rita Musgrove, who said she was their great grandmother, left a bouquet of pink, red, and white roses outside the family’s home.  

‘They were beautiful, beautiful children,’ Jesse told the Boston Globe. Musgrove added: ‘It’s pretty shocking’.

Lindsay and her seven-month-old son survived the apparent murder-suicide attempt and they are both being treated in hospitals in Boston. Pictured: Lindsay pictured with her surviving child in a Facebook post from September 2022

Police said Lindsay jumped from the second floor window of her home 

Pictured: Duxbury Police work at the scene where the two children were found dead

Heartbreaking pictures show Cora, right and Dawson, left, smiling together

John Sullivan, a neighbor whose yard is adjacent to the back yard at 47 Summer St., said he got a call Tuesday night from his son who told him a woman ‘was laying down in the backyard.’

He said he rushed to his neighbor’s property where he saw first responders performing CPR on a baby outside

‘Everybody is in a state of disbelief, it is tragic, the whole neighborhood is trying to process this whole thing,’ Sullivan told CBS Boston.

In a press conference Cruz said of the family: ‘I cannot begin to fathom the pain, the depths of pain they must be feeling.

‘This is an unimaginable, senseless tragedy, and it is an ongoing investigation.’

Lindsay, pictured with Cora as a baby, is a midwife at Massachusetts General Hospital 

Lindsay pictured with her husband Patrick, 34, who called authorities after finding her lying unconscious outside their home on Tuesday evening 

Pictured: The backyard playground where the Clancy children played 

Cruz warned ‘nobody’s here to speculate’, adding ‘we’re well aware of the fact that anybody charged with a criminal crime is presumed innocence until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt’.

He wrapped up the conference by saying: ‘Certainly our hearts and condolences go up to the Clancy family’.

Cruz said they will now conduct autopsies to determine how the children died. Findings will be made public when a death certificate is issued.

The hospital where Lindsay works said in a statement: ‘We are shocked and saddened to learn of this unthinkable tragedy. We extend our deepest sympathies to all those affected by these devastating events.’ 

If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, call the 24hr National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255; contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741; or chat with someone online at suicidepreventionlifeline.org.