Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother found guilty of the tragic murder of her children, has an ex-husband who has chosen to restart his life in the bustling streets of New York City. Remarkably, he has found a new beginning with another partner, tying the knot with a doctor specializing in fertility care.
Just four months after the heart-wrenching incident where Patrick Clancy discovered the lifeless bodies of his children, strangled by their mother in their Duxbury home, he made a significant move to Manhattan, as revealed by public records obtained by The Post.
Now residing in a chic high-rise in Midtown Manhattan, the 38-year-old Microsoft professional shares this new chapter of his life with Dr. Rachel Danis, his newfound love.
Dr. Danis, who is 37, brings her expertise as a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist to a prominent clinic in New York City, as detailed in her professional biography.
Social media offers a glimpse into their joyous journey together, filled with heartwarming snapshots. The couple is seen enjoying various moments including a shared fitness class at Barry’s and beaming with happiness while posing at the NYC Marathon in the cheerful autumn of 2025.
The duo tied the knot in April this year during an intimate ceremony at the Ladies Pavilion in Central Park, followed by a celebration with friends and family at the nearby restaurant Sarabeth’s, the Daily Mail reported.
“Pat has obviously gone through an incredible trauma, and Rachel is a nurturing person by nature,” an unidentified friend of the couple told the outlet.
“She is upbeat, smiling, vivacious and full of energy. It’s fitting that she helps create life in the face of this tragedy,” the pal added, referring to Danis’ job.
Danis also serves as an assistant clinical professor in the Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
“Rachel has a heart of gold…If she can take a guy and try to heal him, that’s what she would do,” the friend continued, and praised Patrick for refusing to let his children’s murders define the rest of his life.
“A lot of people would recoil and just…be a shadow of their former self and never move on. So I admire this guy – I really do,” he said.
Despite the killings and their divorce, Patrick has remained publicly supportive of his ex-wife – and even urged others to forgive her unthinkable crime.
“I wasn’t married to a monster – I was married to someone who got sick,” he told the New Yorker in October 2024.
As Clancy’s triple-murder trial gets underway in Plymouth County, Patrick is expected to appear as the first witness to take the stand Monday.
He is going to testify for the prosecution first, though he’s also on the defense team’s witness list, according to the Boston Globe.
The slain kids’ father will likely face questions about his marriage with Clancy, their home life and his perception of his then-wife’s mental state leading up to the grisly killings, as well as his version of events that fateful day, the outlet reported.
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, will then have the opportunity to cross-examine Patrick and bring up points that are essential to the defense’s insanity argument, including the mom’s repeated efforts to get help for postpartum psychosis.
The trial’s outcome will hinge on whether jurors believe the former nurse was suffering from a psychiatric episode, worsened by a cocktail of antipsychotic medications, when she strangled the children to death, experts previously told The Post.
Clancy is accused of using exercise bands to fatally strangle her kids in the basement of the family’s home before becoming paralyzed from the waist down from the botched bid to kill herself.
Prosecutors are expected to argue that the mother wasn’t suffering a mental break – rather, that she was lucid enough to methodically plan how to get her then-husband out of the house that day so she could be alone with their children: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan.
Patrick filed a last-minute motion last week seeking to prevent the public from hearing his 911 call recording, as well as seeing any “pre-incident,” crime scene or autopsy photographs of the three kids, during the trial, according to court papers.
He also requested that the display of any clothing that once belonged to his children be restricted in the courtroom.
Judge Sullivan reportedly granted the motion Friday, ordering media not to record, display, reproduce, distribute or otherwise disseminate the 911 call and autopsy photos.
However, the evidence will be shown to everyone present in the courtroom – and reporters are allowed to discuss its contents, WCVB reported.
Danis and Patrick’s attorney did not respond to requests for comment.