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Updated · The Boston Globe · Sep 21
Patrick Clancy, Rachel Danis Announce New Family on 60 Minutes After 2023 Triple Child Killings
Updated
Updated · The Boston Globe · Sep 21

Patrick Clancy, Rachel Danis Announce New Family on 60 Minutes After 2023 Triple Child Killings

3 articles · Updated · The Boston Globe · Sep 21

Summary

  • Patrick Clancy and Rachel Danis said on "60 Minutes" they are starting a family, marking their first joint public interview since Lindsay Clancy's Sept. 4 mistrial.
  • Clancy said he wants to tell a future child about Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, and said he had already forgiven Lindsay despite no request from her.
  • His account tied that forgiveness to mental illness, not malice: he said Lindsay's worsening postpartum symptoms preceded the January 2023 killings and called online conspiracy theories a harmful distraction from perinatal mental health.
  • New York became the place where Clancy rebuilt his life after suicidal grief, and where he met Danis in January 2024 before the two married in April.
  • The interview extends the story beyond the deadlocked trial, shifting attention from courtroom blame to how Clancy is carrying his children's memory into a new chapter.

Insights

How will Patrick Clancy's heartbreaking "60 Minutes" revelation reshape the national conversation on the dark realities of postpartum psychosis?
Will prosecutors retry Lindsay Clancy, or will the complex Massachusetts insanity laws let a mistrial be the final word?
What legal consequences await the internet sleuths spreading baseless conspiracy theories about a grieving father's unimaginable loss?