Patrick Clancy, the father of three children killed by his former wife, Lindsay Clancy, inside the family's Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023, is now the target of an online harassment campaign built on the false claim that he was involved in their deaths.
The claim has no foundation. Lindsay Clancy confessed. She never disputed killing her three children. Her defense spent the trial arguing she wasn't criminally responsible because of severe mental illness, including postpartum psychosis, while prosecutors countered that she knew what she was doing.
Nobody on either side of that courtroom argued Patrick did it or was involved in any way. However, that inconvenient fact hasn't stopped supporters of Lindsay Clancy from claiming otherwise.
On Tuesday, Attorney Howard Cooper of Todd & Weld, who represents Patrick Clancy, issued a statement addressing what he described as a coordinated harassment effort.
"Over the past months, Patrick Clancy and his family have been subjected to a relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign," Cooper said.
Cooper placed the blame on a familiar cast of characters.
He pointed to "minor celebrities, so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists" who found a payday spreading false claims about a grieving f
