Patrick Clancy has revealed he speaks to his dead children "all the time,” in an emotional interview with 60 Minutes this coming Sunday where he will be joined by new wife.
He broken his silence following the collapse of the murder trial of his ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy, earlier this month. Clancy killed the couple’s three children — Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; Callan, eight months — at their home in Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023, before a suicide attempt which left her partially paralyzed.
Her defense team said she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the murders and could not be held criminally responsible. The prosecution argued that Clancy was lucid and in her right mind when she made the decision to kill her children. On September 4, the case ended in a mistrial after the jury could not reach a verdict.
In the new interview, airing in full Sunday, Clancy said he still speaks to his children “all the time.” Asked what he says to them, Clancy replied: “Help me.” He also discussed his grief and the unsubstantiated conspiracy theories that have swirled around the case, which has been scrutinized around the world.
Clancy will be joined for a portion of the interview by his new wife, Dr. Rachel Danis, according to a clip posted Thursday by 60 Minutes. The interview was conducted by Ross Douthat, who recently joined the program as a correspondent.
Clancy, a sales executive, returned home from running errands on January 24, 2023, to find his three children dead in the basement and his wife seriously injured outside after she jumped from a second-story window.
In a 911 call that day, Clancy yelled to the dispatcher: “She killed the kids!”
Days later, he released a statement urging people to forgive his wife, a former labor and delivery nurse, who was then in police custody.
“I want to ask all of you that you find it deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay, as I have,” he wrote on a GoFundMe page. “The real Lindsay was generously loving and caring towards everyone - me, our kids, family, friends, and her patients. The very fibers of her soul are loving. All I wish for her now is that she can somehow find peace.”
Clancy, who later divorced his wife, took the stand during her closely followed trial this summer.
He painted her as a victim of her condition rather than a cold-blooded killer, saying that her mental health had worsened after the birth of their third child.
“She described thoughts of hurting the kids or them having some sort of ailment,” he testified, adding that he was not concerned for the children’s safety because she shown not “any intention” of harming them.
A week after the children were strangled, Clancy testified, his wife called him and “said she heard a man’s voice telling her that if she didn’t do it now, she would lose her chance – or something like that.”
Lindsay Clancy’s case ended in a mistrial September 4 after five weeks of testimony and seven days of deliberations. Jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict, and reports indicate they may have been split 11-1 in favor of finding her not criminally responsible.
The prosecutor in the case has been weighing whether to seek a retrial. Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney has called on President Donald Trump to pardon his client and has insisted that a retrial would violate her Fifth Amendment rights not to be tried twice for the same crime.
Clancy began rebuilding his life soon after the death of his children. He moved to New York City in 2023, divorced his wife and later married Rachel Danis, a physician and an infertility specialist, according to Newsweek.
He established the Heard Foundation, which is focused on bettering care for parents facing perinatal mental health issues.
As his ex-wife’s case has captivated the nation, Clancy has also become the subject of unsubstantiated conspiracy theories circulating on social media.
Earlier this month, his attorney warned of “consequences” for “so-called influencers and outright conspiracy theorists.”
“Enough is enough — this spread of blatant and baseless falsehoods must stop,” Clancy’s lawyer, Howard Cooper, said in a September 8 statement. He said that a “relentless, escalating and destructive defamation campaign” has jeopardized his client’s “reputation, livelihood, and life.”
The full 60 Minutes segment is set to air on Sunday.
