The New Yorker has been ordered to cough up all audio recordings from an interview with the husband of a Boston mom accused of strangling their three young children in a fit of postpartum depression, a judge has ruled.
The magazine’s publisher, Conde Nast, was hit with a summons on Monday to hand over its interview with Lindsay Clancy’s husband after the outlet published a story last October in which he detailed his wife’s mental state in the lead-up to the 2023 murders, the Boston Globe reported.
In the interview, Patrick Clancy revealed his wife had told him in the wake of her arrest that she’d heard a voice telling her to kill their children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 7 months — inside their Duxbury, Mass., home.
“She did not sound like my wife,” he was quoted as saying at the time.
He also said that Clancy, who has been held without bail since the murders, “misses her kids.”
“I know [it] sounds crazy to some people. But that’s the reality,” Patrick told the outlet.
In addition to the full audio recording of his interview, Plymouth Superior Court Judge William F. Sullivan ordered the mag to provide prosecutors with any notes, texts, voicemails and emails tied to the story as they build a case.
It comes after the judge last month ordered Clancy to submit to a psychiatric exam after her lawyers said they were preparing to mount an insanity defense because she was suffering from crippling postpartum depression and was overmedicated at the time of the murders.
Clancy, who was on leave from her job at Massachusetts General Hospital, had sent her husband on an errand for 20 minutes on Jan. 24, 2023 — using the time that she was alone with the kids to murder them, authorities allege.
She then tried to kill herself by jumping out a window of the family’s home.
Elsewhere in the magazine interview, Clancy’s husband said he had since forgiven her because she wasn’t herself at the time.
“I wasn’t married to a monster,” Patrick said. “I was married to someone who got sick.”
He opened up, too, about some of the conversations he had with his wife in the wake of the slayings.
“I think one of the first things I asked was, ‘Did you plan this? Is that why you sent me out?’” he recounted to the New Yorker.
“She said, ‘No, it just was like, a snap of the fingers.’”
Clancy’s trial is scheduled to begin in January 2026.
