“It was a good summer.”

That is how Patrick Clancy remembered 2022 while testifying in Massachusetts’ Plymouth District Court on July 29. He and his then-wife Lindsay — already parents to a daughter Cora, then 4, and son Dawson, 2 — had just welcomed their third child, Callan, that May.

The family enjoyed trips to Cape Cod and spending time together at their home in Duxbury, an affluent suburb located 20 miles outside Boston.

By that fall, however, things had begun to change in the Clancy household. “Lindsay’s mental health started to deteriorate,” Patrick said in court.

Then, on Jan. 24, 2023, Patrick arrived home to an unthinkable scene: his wife had strangled their three children and attempted to take her own life.

Days later, Patrick released a statement asking people to forgive his wife for her actions.

“My family was the best thing that ever happened to me,” Patrick wrote. “I took so much pride in being Lindsay’s husband and a dad to Cora, Dawson, and Callan.”

He wrote that Lindsay was “generously loving and caring towards everyone,” and that “the very fibers of her soul are loving.”

He added: “All I wish for her now is that she can somehow find peace.”

In the aftermath of the killings, Patrick packed up his things, began divorce proceedings and quietly began to rebuild his life.

Before Everything Changed
He had grown up with two sisters just 10 miles north of Duxbury in the town of Scituate, and was an avid sailor. When it came time to attend college, he opted to stay local and attended Salve Regina University, an hour and a half south in Newport, R.I.

It was after college that his sister and cousin set him up with Lindsay Musgrove, a young nurse who had recently moved to Boston from Connecticut.

On New Year’s Eve of 2015, Patrick proposed to Lindsay at the site of their first date. They were married near Lindsay’s childhood home in December 2016, and a year later Lindsay and Patrick welcomed their first child on Christmas Eve — a daughter they named Cora.

Their son Dawson followed two years later. While Lindsay was still pregnant with Dawson, the couple bought their Duxbury home.

Lindsay was working as a labor and delivery nurse at the time, while Patrick was in tech sales, splitting his time between a home office in the basement and work trips selling software that kept him on the road throughout the year.

In November 2022, Patrick had one such work trip, traveling to New York City for two days.

He returned home on the evening of Nov. 3, 2022, and the very next day traveled to San Francisco for a four-day trip, taking his oldest child, Cora, along with him.

Patrick’s decision to spend a week away drew criticism from some who questioned why he left his wife alone with their children while, by his own account, she was struggling with mental health issues. But he testified that “nothing bad happened” while he was gone.

The Distance Between Them
Since the killings of their children weeks after his return, Patrick has had only limited contact with Lindsay. He told The New Yorker he heard from her for the first time a day or two before her Feb. 7, 2023, arraignment, when Lindsay left a voicemail saying that she loved him.

A day later, they had a minute-long phone conversation, Patrick told The New Yorker. Lindsay told him she heard a voice commanding her to kill their children and that it was her “last chance,” Patrick said: “She didn’t sound like my wife.”

Six months later, Patrick called his wife at Tewksbury Hospital, the state-run mental health institution where she has been since Jan. 2023, on her 33rd birthday, he told The New Yorker.

Starting Over
But by then, Patrick had already begun to rebuild his life. After making solo trips to Latin America and Europe, he put the family’s house in Duxbury on the market and moved to New York City, where he rented an apartment in the Upper East Side and took a new position as a business applications sales executive at Microsoft.

He also filed for a divorce and started dating again. By February 2024, he was in a relationship with Dr. Rachel Danis.

A reproductive specialist who works for a practice in Brooklyn, she moved into Patrick’s Upper East Side apartment in 2025, a friend of the couple told PEOPLE, and in April 2026, they got married in Central Park.

It was a small ceremony attended by close friends and family, according to the friend, who was a guest at the couple’s nuptials.

Danis has spoken publicly about her own fertility journey. In September 2024, she was a guest on the Fertility Forward podcast. “I remember when I first froze my eggs, I felt like, I mean, even sometimes still, I feel like this black sheep. I think for women, it’s just really hard,” she said. “We have so much pressure to balance career and personal growth, but like we’re riddled with this fertility stuff.”