Prosecutors say Patrick Clancy found his three young children dead in the basement of his Duxbury, Massachusetts home on January 24, 2023, while he was already speaking with a 911 dispatcher. The accounts describe the children as being killed by their mother, and state that prosecutors allege she strangled them. One report says Clancy was on the call when he discovered the bodies, and that he reported what he had found to the dispatcher.

The reports also describe the alleged involvement of “postpartum” circumstances in the case, portraying prosecutors’ position that the mother used a common household item to kill the children. Both sources refer to the same date and location and describe the same sequence: a father calling 911, the discovery of the children’s deaths during the call, and prosecutors’ allegation of strangling by the mother.

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