Patrick Clancy, the former husband of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy, has begun a new chapter in New York City, where he has remarried after finding love with a fertility specialist.
Public records obtained by The Post show that Clancy relocated to Manhattan roughly four months after the January 2023 tragedy in Duxbury, Massachusetts, where his three young children were found strangled inside the family home.
The 38-year-old Microsoft employee now resides in a Midtown Manhattan high-rise with his new wife, Dr. Rachel Danis.
Danis, 37, is a reproductive endocrinologist and infertility specialist at a New York City fertility clinic, according to her professional biography.
Photos shared on social media offer glimpses into the couple’s relationship, from attending the same Barry’s fitness class to beaming together at the New York City Marathon in November 2025.
The couple married in April during a small ceremony at the Ladies Pavilion in Central Park, later celebrating with loved ones 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 unnamed friend of the couple told the outlet.
The friend described Danis as “upbeat, smiling, vivacious and full of energy,” adding that her work helping families build lives felt especially meaningful against the backdrop of such devastating loss.
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.
