Patrick Clancy thinks about his children every moment of the day—and their memory will live on in his future kids.
Weeks after his ex-wife Lindsay Clancy’s trial for the 2023 murders of their three children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, ended with a deadlocked jury, the software salesman addressed whether or not he has plans to start a family with his wife Dr. Rachel Daniswhile continuing to grieve the loss of his kids.
“My life has changed since I met Rachel,” Patrick shared on the Sept. 20 episode of 60 Minutes when asked if Rachel helps him carry the weight of losing his children, “in such a positive way.”
Rachel—who married Patrick in April 2026—added, “I can’t bring his kids back. But if I can honor them and allow Pat to grieve but also just continue to honor them in the present, I guess that’s all I can do.”
It was then 60 Minutes’ Ross Douthat stated that the pair are “starting a family,” to which Rachel confirmed, “Yeah.”
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And Patrick emphasized that his future children will learn about their late siblings, despite never getting to meet them.
“Every parent can agree, you have different relationships with your kids, but they’re all your kids,” he explained. “And I can’t wait to tell them about their brothers and sister.”
The interview marked Patrick’s first public appearance regarding Lindsay’s case since he took the stand as the first witness during his ex-wife’s murder trial.
While Lindsay had never denied killing her and Patrick’s children at their Duxbury, Mass., home, on Jan. 24, 2023, she had pleaded not guilty to the three charges of murder and strangulation. Her legal team argued the 36-year-old could not be held criminally responsible because she wasn’t in her right mind due to postpartum psychosis.
And Lindsay’s lawyerKevin Reddingtonalso came to the defense of Patrickfollowingonline theories speculating he was involved in his kids’ deaths. In fact, the attorney emphasizedthat listening toPatrick’s9-1-1 call would be enough to clear him of any suspicions regarding his involvement.
“No actor in California could ever imitate that,”Reddingtonsaid during his Sept. 9appearance onCBS Mornings. “It’s obvious that Patrick was a man who stood by his wife through all of the difficulty of the medical issues, the psychiatric issues, the pharmaceutical issues, and even up to the time of trial and even afterwards.”
“The man ought to be able to move on with his life,” he continued, “and stop with the speculation and horrific conspiracy allegations that he was involved with some massive conspiracy to kill his children.”
A hearing to determine the next steps for Lindsay’s case is currently scheduled for Sept. 29.
To learn more about what was shared during her trial, keep reading.
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The 35-year-old former nurse has not denied killing daughter Cora, 5, and sons Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, but has pleaded not guilty of murder, the defense attributing her actions to postpartum psychosis.
Patrick Clancy testified that Lindsay struggled with her mental health after giving birth to Callan in May 2023, according to CNN.
She also sought treatment after Dawson was born in 2019, he said, “but it didn’t last very long.”
Lindsay’s “big spiral,” as he referred to it, occurred in December 2023 after she started taking a new medication, one of several she’d been prescribed since September, Patrick said. He testified that Lindsay told him she had “intrusive thoughts” about harming their children and herself.
He didn’t worry about the kids’ safety, he said, because she didn’t seem to have “any intention” of actually hurting them.
On Dec. 31, Patrick said, Lindsay went to the E.R. at Massachusetts General Hospital “because she was still talking about thoughts of suicide. She was admitted to an affiliated psychiatric facility, and when she was discharged Jan. 5 she seemed “much better.”
“She was playing with the kids,” he said, “and she seemed in a good mood.”
That morning she had taken Cora to a doctor’s appointment and he had texted her a picture of Dawson after he “dressed himself completely for the first time.”
Patrick told the court he had felt “hopeful” since his wife’s release from the hospital. “Her mood seemed better,” he said. “She was more active, and she was able…to partake in more things.”
Before he left to pick up dinner and medication for Cora, he said he kissed one of the kids on the head and told them he’d “be right back.”
Prosecutors allege Lindsay sent Patrick on errands to get him out of the house on purpose. Then, Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham said in her opening statement, she strangled the children with exercise bands “deliberately and meticulously.”
Patrick testified July 29 that no one told him he shouldn’t leave Linday alone with their kids, telling the court, “I didn’t know what psychosis was until after this happened.”
“I want help,” she wrote in an entry read by her attorney. “I want to be well.”
In another, she said, “I have crazy brain fog. I feel like I can’t make a plan. I live moment to moment waiting for the next nap time. I’m terrified of Cal getting overtired now because I feel can’t help him.”
He said, per The Guardian, that his lab found that only the level of quetiapine in her blood was slightly elevated, but it wasn’t at a “toxic” or “suicidal concentration.” He further described the levels in her blood as “not consistent” with someone who takes a bunch of pills before trying to end her life.
Under defense cross-examination, Brower also said that toxicology results “don’t tell the entire story.”
Lindsay’s attorney Kevin Reddington said in his July 28 opening statement that she has bipolar disorder and medication worsened her condition.
On the day she killed Cora, Dawson and Callan, Reddington said, she heard a voice telling her, “‘This is your last chance. Kill the children so you can kill yourself.'”
“I observed a wonderful mom who loved her kids,” Rossi said. “She was concerned about their safety, and Callan eating and sleeping. She was a wonderful mother.”
“She talked about insomnia and not feeling herself,” Hennigan said, per the AP. “I believe she might have used the words brain fog or something like that.”
Lindsay texted her in January 2023, Hennigan said, that she was experiencing “bad or negative side effects” from medication.
When they returned from their morning break the next day, Reddington told Judge Williams Sullivan he had an issue to raise.
Asked what he had to share, per the Ledger, the lawyer replied, “I want to tell you that [a prosecutor] got picked up on a hot mic saying ‘shut her up’ during the playing of their autopsy.”
“This is not like Handmaid’s Tale,” Reddington added. “You can’t tape her mouth shut.”
Prosecution lawyers said in response that they reviewed footage of the moment in question and what appeared to have been said was, ‘Shut it off,’ indicating they should remove the autopsy photos from the screen.
“Any chance you want to do take out from ThreeV,” she sent him at 4:53 p.m. on the evening of January 24, 2023, according to messages read in court Aug. 14 by prosecution witness State Trooper Timothy Chiappini, who analyzed Lindsay’s cell phone. “I didn’t cook anything. It’s been a long day.”
Patrick replied, “Yeah,” and she wrote back, “Okie dokie, check the menu when you can.”
Patrick then asked if Callan was up from his nap yet, and she replied, “It was just a short nap.”
Also per the texts read in court, Lindsay said at 5:07 p.m. that she’d have a Mediterranean Power Bowl, while Patrick went with “scallops and pork belly risotto” a minute later.
She also made searches related to postpartum psychosis five days before their Jan. 24 deaths. And on that day, she looked up “kids miralax” and “CVS pharmacy”.
Whiffin also spoke on the data recorded by Lindsay’s iPhone Apple Health app and her Apple Watch, that showed she had climbed two flights of stairs at 5:03 and 5:33 p.m.
Though he did not provide further details, Sullivan told the jury, per ABC News, “This is not something we saw coming, but you’re not to speculate about what it is. You’re not to hold it against either side. It’s just something that we have to deal with.”
E! News has reached out to Plymouth Superior Court for comment but has not heard back.
Judge Sullivan refused, saying, per NBC News, “the discharge of a deliberating juror is a sensitive undertaking, fraught with potential error.”
