{"id":321877,"date":"2026-11-05T19:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321877\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T19:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:20:14","slug":"wife-of-ivy-league-dad-who-threw-2-kids-off-parking-garage-defends-him-as-wonderful-but-depressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321877\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife of Ivy League dad who threw 2 kids off parking garage defends him as \u2018wonderful\u2019 but depressed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The wife of a Pennsylvania father who threw his two young children <\/a>off a parking garage before killing himself has seemingly defended him in a social media post, saying that he was a \u201cwonderful dad\u201d who had become depressed after losing his job three months ago, according to a now-deleted social media post.<\/p>\n

She also tragically revealed that he had agreed to seek help and that his first mental health appointment was scheduled for one day after the apparent double murder-suicide.<\/p>\n

Patrick Lynch, 42; his son James, 8, and daughter Caroline, 6, <\/a>were found dead near the foot of a five-story parking garage in the affluent Pittsburgh suburb of Mt. Lebanon at around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, in what officials have since described as \u201cnot an accident.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The slain children\u2019s mother, Anna Lynch, blamed her husband\u2019s spiraling mental state for the murder-suicide, according to a social media post shared with CBS Pittsburgh. Facebook\/Patrick Lynch<\/p>\n

Anna Lynch blamed her Ivy League-educated husband\u2019s spiraling mental state for his unthinkable actions, according to a screenshot of a since-deleted Facebook post published by the Daily Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband made the irreversible decision to kill our two children and himself this evening.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was laid off in August and shortly after became depressed,\u201d the grieving mom wrote \u2014 adding that, shortly before the harrowing events, things had seemingly begun looking up. <\/p>\n

\u201cI suggested he to go to a therapist [sic], which he agreed to go to and had an appointment booked for 11\/4. One day too late.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought this is how our story would end,\u201d the heart-wrenching post read. <\/p>\n

Still, Anna Lynch remembered her husband as \u201ca wonderful dad,\u201d as well as her son\u2019s passion for skiing and daughter\u2019s love of Skittles and slime.<\/p>\n

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It also described the slain youngsters as \u201cbest friends forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRest in peace, my angels,\u201d Anna Lynch wrote, and encouraged her followers to \u201ccheck in on your loved ones.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lynch was a data scientist with a top-flight education \u2014 an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and a master\u2019s from Carnegie Mellon. <\/p>\n

According to his LinkedIn, he worked for Slice \u2014 the New Jersey-based restaurant point of sale system \u2014 for four years, until August. <\/p>\n

The family lived in a $900,000, 4,200-square-foot home in the Mt. Lebanon section of Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n

Little James and Caroline \u2013 who were declared dead at the scene about 20 minutes later \u2013 succumbed to multiple blunt force injuries, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office said Wednesday, as their deaths were ruled homicides<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The dad\u2019s cause and time of death has not been released publicly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anna Lynch remembered her daughter\u2019s love of Skittles and slime in the heart-wrenching social media post. Facebook\/Anna DeMase Lynch<\/p>\n

The Allegheny County Police Department, which has not publicly identified a motive for the grisly incident, declined to comment on the claims about Patrick Lynch\u2019s mental health when reached by The Post. <\/p>\n

Caroline Lynch had been battling a rare genetic disorder, Williams syndrome \u2013 which impacts growth, cognition, and the cardiovascular system \u2013 as well as heart and lung disease, since shortly after her birth, according to a 2025 interview with her mother in Mt. Lebanon Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Anna Lynch was fueled by her daughter\u2019s health struggles to co-found the Inclusion Collective, a non-profit dedicated to increasing disability awareness and inclusion and empowering parents as advocates, according to the clip and a webpage for the organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This Google Street View image from April 2025 shows the Mt. Lebanon parking garage in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. Google Maps<\/p>\n

As of Thursday morning, an online fundraiser created to help the devastated mother buried her family members had raised more than $170,000 of its $200,000 goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNo mother should ever have to experience this kind of pain. Especially Anna, who devoted her life to her family and to the community. To know her is to love her,\u201d reads a bio on the GoFundMe page.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNothing I write here will bring her babies back and give her any sense of justice or peace. If we, her family and friends, can ease the financial burden of having to bury her children and her husband, it would be a relief,\u201d it continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Post has reached out to Anna Lynch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wife of a Pennsylvania father who threw his two young children off a parking garage before killing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[734,130578,33588,39645,28,30,29,302],"class_list":["post-321877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-children","tag-dads","tag-deaths","tag-murder-suicide","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}