On January 24, 2023, what began as an ordinary evening for a young Massachusetts family ended in an unimaginable tragedy. Lindsay Clancy was a labor and delivery nurse, wife, and mother of three young children. That night, her husband, Patrick, briefly left their Duxbury home to pick up dinner and medication. When he returned, everything had changed. Their three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, would ultimately lose their lives, and Lindsay would survive after suffering serious injuries herself. In this episode of Pushing Up Lilies, I walk you through what happened that night and the events surrounding the deaths of these three children. As a nurse and former forensic death investigator, this case raises difficult questions for me, not only about the investigation itself, but about mental health following childbirth. Lindsay had reportedly been struggling with her mental health and receiving treatment before the deaths, bringing postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, and postpartum psychosis into the national conversation. What happens when a mother’s perception of reality becomes distorted? How do investigators begin reconstructing a scene involving multiple children and a critically injured parent? And how do we discuss a case this devastating while remembering that at the center of it are three children whose lives were lost? This week, we’re focusing on the night everything happened: the timeline, the circumstances surrounding the deaths, and what investigators began to uncover. Next week, we’ll continue with the Lindsay Clancy case as we turn our attention to the courtroom, the evidence and arguments being presented, and the complicated questions surrounding postpartum psychosis and criminal responsibility. This is a heartbreaking case with no easy answers. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: 00:06 Welcome to Pushing Up Lilies. I’m your host, Julie Matson.  00:10 Pushing Up Lilies is a weekly true crime podcast with spine-tingling, unusual, and terrifyingly true stories from my perspective as a forensic death investigator and a sexual assault nurse examiner.  00:24 Do I have some stories for you? Are you ready? Hey, guys. Welcome to another episode of Pushing Up Lilies. I’m your host, Julie. I just want to say that I’m so grateful for all my followers.  00:43 I am just about to hit 100,000 downloads, which is amazing.  00:49 I’ve recorded over 200 episodes, and I am being asked to guest host on a lot of other true crime podcasts, which I’m so grateful for the friends and true crime family that I met at Beyond the Crime and then also at Crime Con.  01:07 And I’ve already… I think I told y’all, I’ve already actually applied as a creator for Crime Con 2027, which is in September 2027 in Orlando, and I’m excited about the possibility.  01:22 I will be exhibitor if I’m not chosen to be on Creators Row again. I don’t think there was really a lot of separation as far as who was on Creators Row and who was an exhibitor.  01:36 However, I know that there was a cost difference, so it doesn’t matter to me really. I used to be so focused on being a creator and you know what?  01:46 We’re all creators, and they only chose a certain number of people, and that’s fine. I don’t know how they decide that. They say that they’re fair about it. I just don’t know.  01:57 I don’t know who makes that decision.  01:59 I don’t even know how many creators they had versus exhibitors, but I know that many podcasters who had been in the podcasting world for years still were not chosen.  02:11 So, it really had nothing to do with your experience or your level of expertise or even how long you’d been doing it. Anyway, I applied as a creator, if nothing else, to save a little bit of money.  02:26 I can tell you that I think I will drive next time because the cost of shipping all my merch there was ridiculous, and it had to be there two weeks before the event, and then we had to pay Caesars Palace to store our stuff.  02:43 So, the underlying cost of podcasting, I think, is something that a lot of people don’t understand, and that’s why we work so hard to get sponsors.  02:52 This year, I am hosting my second annual Murder Mystery Dinner, and it’s gonna be in Krum, Texas. The date we have chosen is October 10th.  03:03 It’ll start at 5:00 PM, and we’re gonna have, like, a one-hour kinda meet and greet, have some drinks, visit, meet each other, and also talk to the actors.  03:15 And then at 6:00, it will start, and that is a three-hour show that will be put on during dinner. It’s very interactive. Super excited. There are opportunities this year to sponsor the event.  03:32 I will say that I have reached out to several different organizations to be a part of promoting them.  03:43 One of them is making the coasters where you can test for GHB and Rohypnol in your drink, and to put the Pushing Up Lilies logo on those and then hand them out at local bars for free.  03:58 And then also, we have two major universities in Denton, giving them to students so that they can check their drink before they take a drink to make sure that it hasn’t been tainted.  04:10 I like to help with prevention, and so those things are things that I wanna do with the sponsorship and promotion money that we get from the event, as well as to help kinda cover the costs of the podcast.  04:24 So anyway, there’s a lot of stuff up and coming, and so I’m super excited to share it with y’all.  04:28 I really don’t wanna mention the names of the organizations until I have something set in stone, but it’s gonna be exciting. There’s gonna be a lot.  04:37 I have, uh, a guest speaker lined up that y’all are going to love to hear. Her daughter was murdered, and I’m