On the day of the killings, Lindsay Clancy said she heard a voice telling her, “This is your last chance. Patrick Clancy has said in interviews that he forgives his ex-wife, whom he viewed as ill rather than evil. Patrick Clancy testified Wednesday that his last image of Dawson was of the boy sitting on the couch, eating chicken nuggets and green beans. Lindsay Clancy had asked her husband to make a quick trip for takeout food and medication at a pharmacy for Cora. Injured but conscious, Lindsay Clancy told him she’d tried to kill herself and that the kids were in the basement, without saying they were dead.