Patrick Clancy said he felt he had no purpose after his three children were killed.

"There was a time where I didn't think I would live to see my 35th birthday," Clancy, 36, said in an interview with 60 Minutes. "And I was completely fine with it."

His interview with correspondent Ross Douthat comes after his ex-wife's mistrial earlier this month. The court has yet to determine whether Patrick's ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy, will be retried for the killings of their children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan. It also comes as Patrick and his wife, Rachel Danis, face intense public scrutiny, becoming the subjects of online suspicion and speculation on social media.

What happened after Callan was born

In October 2022, five months after Callan's birth, Patrick said Lindsay told him she had gone a few nights without sle...