Patrick Clancy Rents Out NYC Apartment While Wife's Trial Looms

Patrick Clancy and his new pregnant wife are reportedly renting out their New York City apartment while prosecutors decide whether to retry Lindsay for the murder of their three children. TMZ reports that Clancy, 38, and Rachel Danis have made available their 700-square-foot one-bedroom, one-bath condo in East Midtown, Manhattan for $6,550 a month beginning December 11. The air-conditioned unit includes furniture, a dishwasher, and in-unit laundry within a pet-friendly building that features a fitness center. It remains unclear where the couple, who tied the knot this past April, might be moving.

This listing arrives as Massachusetts prosecutors weigh whether to put Lindsay Clancy on trial a second time for strangling their three young children at their $650,000 home in Duxbury back in January 2023 after a triple homicide trial ended in an 11-1 jury deadlock and mistrial. The mom-of-three faced charges for killing Cora, five, Dawson, three, and Callan, eight months old, inside the family home. Clancy, a 36-year-old labor and delivery nurse, allegedly strangled the children with exercise bands in the basement after sending her husband out to run errands. She then attempted suicide by cutting her wrists and neck and jumping from a second-floor bedroom window. Clancy survived but is left paralyzed from the waist down.

The listing also surfaces as prosecutors consider retrying Lindsay Clancy, pictured here. The couple's three children are pictured before their deaths in Duxbury. She did not deny killing her kids but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming she suffered from severe postpartum depression and psychosis at the time. On the stand, Clancy told jurors how his ex-wife took various cocktails of prescription medications even as Lindsay continued to tell him about intrusive thoughts regarding harming the children. 'She described thoughts of hurting the kids or them having some sort of ailment,' he testified.

Clancy said he did not feel concerned for his kids' safety because she expressed no intent to act on those thoughts. But when Clancy returned home on January 24, 2023 after picking up medicine and a takeout order for his then-wife, he found a bloody crime scene and his wife on the ground. She told him she tried to take her own life and noted that the children were in the basement, according to Clancy's testimony. Under the impression they were still alive, Clancy frantically dialed 911 and waited for first-responders. When they arrived, he rushed into the house to find all of his children lying still with exercise resistance bands wrapped around their necks. 'She killed the f****** kids!' he screamed, police said.

Still, Clancy called his ex a very dedicated mother who would do anything for their children, a point he later emphasized in an interview on 60 Minutes. I saw headlines that say killer mom and baby murderer monster and none of them were accurate, he stated. The three-bedroom home in the suburb of Duxbury where the Clancy family lived before the murders remains a central part of this tragic story as legal decisions unfold.

I believed that it was her mental illness that caused that," he said. The stress of the murders also took its toll, leaving Clancy suicidal at times. "There was a time I didn't think I would live to see my 35th birthday, and I was completely fine with it," he admitted. He moved to New York in spring 2023 just to be somewhere where he could grieve alone. Danis arrived on the scene one year later. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington questioned the investigation as he argued that charges against his client should fail due to a lack of criminal responsibility for murdering her three children.

It now remains unclear whether Lindsay Clancy will face another trial for the deaths. But her lawyer, Kevin Reddington, has since tried to argue there was insufficient evidence to charge her in the killings. "This entire case is based on speculation. Where is the admission? Where did she say that she did this?" he asked inside the Plymouth County Superior Court last week. Gesturing animatedly inside the jam-packed courtroom, he claimed that the former nurse had been demonized by everyone, including the president.

"She's a demon and possessed and should be executed," he claimed people were saying. "This is coming from politicians, from President Trump, all the way down." Slamming the entire investigation into the children's deaths, Reddington questioned where the evidence actually was. He noted there was no blood on his client's socks after she cut herself and leaped from the bedroom window. When she woke from a coma, she had no memory of killing her children. Instead, she was simply told by police that she had killed them despite issues with the timeline of that day, he argued. Because of the shoddy investigation, the state allegedly had no probable cause that she was even the perpetrator.

He also argued that there is insufficient evidence to prove the 36-year-old is criminally responsible for the killings. For a defendant to be found criminally responsible, a jury must determine two things: whether or not she was suffering a mental defect or disease at the time, and whether or not she could still control her actions despite her illness. Reddington argued that the prosecution failed to prove its case on both points. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham, however, branded his comments laughable, saying this was the first time the defense had made this claim. He also argued that a defendant who suffers from mental illness can commit crimes and still be criminally responsible.