Why did Patrick Clancy divorce Lindsay Clancy? He once asked public to forgive ex-wife, ‘I wasn’t married to a monster’
Lindsay Clancy’s trial is underway, with the Massachusetts mother facing three counts of murder in the killings of her children Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months. The proceedings are taking place in a Plymouth, Massachusetts, courtroom.
Patrick Clancyher former husband, took the stand on the first two days of the trial and testified about finding his kids fatally injured and Lindsay’s struggles with mental health.
Why did Patrick Clancy divorce Lindsay Clancy?
Patrick divorced Lindsay following the tragic murders of their children. During his testimony, Patrick recalled how he returned from running errands to his family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home, and found his three children lying motionless in the basement, each with an exercise resistance band around their neck.
Patrick eventually moved on and remarried. People reported that Patrick’s new wife is a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist named Rachel Danis. The couple live in New York City.
Lindsay’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, disclosed the remarriage in court during the trial.
“Patrick Clancy has suffered one of the worst tragedies that anyone could ever suffer. How that guy is not an emotional basketcase is beyond me, and he is trying hard to move on with his life. As the court is aware, they’re divorced, he’s remarried, he has a family,” Reddington said in court.
Patrick, in the past, asked the public to forgive Lindsay. In an October 2024 interview with The New Yorker, he said, “I wasn’t married to a monster — I was married to someone who got sick.”
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Lindsay was a “very dedicated” mother who did everything for their children, Patrick said at the trial. “She just had a really hard time being separated from them,” he testified.
According to prosecutors, Lindsay, 35, “acted intentionally, rationally and swiftly” when she fatally strangled her three children at their Duxbury home on January 24, 2023. Her defense attorneys, on the other hand, argued that she is not criminally responsible because she was in the midst of a psychotic episode that stemmed from postpartum mental illness.
Lindsay has pleaded not guilty to the murder charges. If convicted of murder, she faces life in prison without parole. In case she is found not guilty due to a lack of criminal responsibility, she would be committed to a state mental health facility.
