Patrick Clancy issued a statement through his attorney expressing graтιтude for those involved with the trial.
His ex-wife was facing charges over the deaths of their three children Cora, five, Dawson, three, and baby Callan, eight months, before the trial collapsed earlier today.
‘Patrick Clancy is grateful to the Court and to the jurors for their hard work, their commitment, and their perseverance,’ his lawyer David Meier said.
‘The loss of Patrick’s children is something from which he will never recover and from which there will never be closure.
‘The prospect of reliving this tᩚraɢedy through another trial is extraordinarily painful for Patrick, for his family, and for all us.’
It comes two days after Patrick was seen stepping out with his new wife Rachel Danis in New York City while the jury remained locked in tense deliberations.
The Daily Mail previously revealed that Patrick has relocated to a Midtown Manhattan high-rise with his new wife, who is a specialist and doctor.
Public records show Patrick relocated from suburban Mᴀssachusetts to Manhattan in May 2023, four months after the deaths of his children.
Lindsay Clancy’s case was declared a mistrial on Friday afternoon after a grueling five-week trial
Patrick Clancy released a statement after the mistrial, confessing that the loss of his children was ‘something from which he will never recover’
Patrick and his new wife, Rachel, were seen smiling in New York City just two days before the jury declared a mistrial in the case
During the trial, Patrick was forced to revisit the tᩚraɢedy that when his former wife strangled their three children using exercise bands.
Judge William Sullivan announced a mistrial at a court in Plymouth, Mᴀssachusetts, shortly before 2.30pm ET Friday after an emergency appeal by Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, failed.
A mistrial means the prosecution will have the opportunity to try Clancy again. The trial will have to start over from jury selection.
The jury deliberated for almost 40 hours after hearing five weeks of evidence, but one juror was not
A second trial would not violate Clancy’s Fifth Amendment right against double jeopardy, which protects citizens from being punished twice for the same crime.
The Consтιтution of the United States prevents the government from trying a person again for the same crime after they have already been found innocent or guilty.
But because Clancy’s first trial has resulted in a ᴅᴇᴀᴅlock, the prosecution is allowed to charge her a second time. It is unclear whether the prosecution will move forward with a second trial.
Clancy is likely going to be kept insтιтutionalized in the interim while a decision is made.
Patrick, Lindsay’s husband, filed a suit against her doctors. He is shown with the children, Cora, Dawson, and baby Callan
The Daily Mail previously revealed that Patrick relocated from suburban Mᴀssachusetts to Manhattan in May 2023
Dr Rachel Danis works as a fertility specialist in New York
She admits killing her children and attempting to take her own life in 2023 but says she did so while overmedicated and suffering from postpartum psychosis.
A hearing to decide what to do next will take place September 29. District Attorney Tim Cruz maintained Clancy’s killing of her children was cold-blooded murder, but he refused to be drawn into whether he would push for a retrial and said the decision was yet to be made.
Prosecutors now face several options, including retrying Clancy on reduced charges or seeking a verdict decided by a judge rather than jurors.
The jury of nine women and three men sent four notes to the judge this week saying they had been unable to reach a verdict.
It emerged on Thursday that 11 of the 12 jurors had reached the same verdict, but a twelfth holdout refused to follow them.
Reddington filed an appeal claiming this unidentified juror was biased towards people with mєntal disabilities.
The final note sent by jurors on Friday morning read: ‘It is with a heavy heart that we are unable to come to a unanimous decision and will not be able to.’
The previous family life of Patrick Clancy (right), came crashing down in 2023 when wife Lindsay (left) strangled their three children to dєatᩚh then tried to take her own life
Couple Patrick Clancy, 38, and Rachel Danis, 37, are pictured above together in the fall of 2025
Friday’s Hail Mary motion was put before ᴀssociate Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt around 2pm ET. The brief hearing took place over Zoom, with Wendlandt issuing her ruling rejecting the appeal shortly afterward.
A few moments before the mistrial was declared, Reddington suggested to Judge Sullivan that he still had the power to send the jury back out to deliberate again, one final time.
During the sensational five weeks of testimony, prosecutors argued the killings were intentional and well planned, not the work of someone who had lost control.
The mistrial was declared hours after tensions between Reddington and Judge Sullivan boiled over. That came after Reddington accused Sullivan of giving a ‘soft’ instruction to jurors about how to interpret the concept of reasonable doubt.
Before the court adjourned, Reddington spoke to the judge and demanded that ‘one juror’ who is ‘refusing to listen to the law’ be removed from the panel. The prosecutors argued against this, and the judge did not make a ruling.
Both Patrick and Clancy have filed separate lawsuits against several of her medical providers, alleging that they overmedicated Clancy while treating her for postpartum mєntal health issues.
Patrick Clancy gave evidence in support of ex-wife Lindsay Clancy during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court
Lindsay Clancy was paralyzed from the waist down following her sᩚuᩚiᩚcide attempt
Patrick has publicly supported his ex-wife from the start and urged the public to ‘find it deep within yourselves to forgive Lindsay, as I have.’
He previously told The New Yorker: ‘I wasn’t married to a monster – I was married to someone who got sick.’
Patrick spent six hours testifying as a prosecution witness during the trial. He told jurors that Lindsay had been a ‘loving mother’ before she was derailed by a months-long battle with postpartum depression, suicidal ideation and sleep deprivation.
Doctors did not warn him about postpartum psychosis or that he should not leave Lindsay alone with the children, he told the court.
While giving evidence, he wore the wedding ring from his new marriage to Dr Danis.
Observers noted that Patrick and Lindsay barely made eye contact with each other in court – which is understood to be the first time they saw each other since the tᩚraɢedy.
💔 STELLA PARTON BREAKS HER SILENCE — What She Said About Dolly’s Health Has Fans Looking Back
Dolly Parton’s Sister Breaks Silence What Really Happened - GMT - G1
Stella Parton was born May 4, 1949, the sixth of twelve children raised by Robert Lee and Avie Lee Parton in Sevierville, Tennessee — a household defined by noise, limited money, and almost no privacy, the kind of environment that produced strong, determined personalities.
Stella was one of them.
By seven, she was appearing alongside her older sister Dolly on a Knoxville television program; by her teens, she was writing her own songs, though marriage and motherhood pulled music to the margins of her life for a stretch.
The dream never fully disappeared.
In 1967, she recorded a gospel album with her mother and sisters, and later worked clubs in Washington, D.C., before founding her own record label in 1975 and releasing “I Want to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight,” which climbed to number nine on the country charts.
Long before any of that commercial success, Stella had already shown a willingness to take positions others avoided.
At 26, amid backlash against Australian singer Olivia Newton-John for winning recognition in country music, Stella recorded “Ode to Olivia” in her defense — a stand that offered her no career benefit and real risk of criticism, but one she took anyway simply because she believed staying silent was the wrong choice.
That instinct defined the rest of her career: hits like “The Danger of a Stranger” and “Steady as the Rain” (written by Dolly) built a genuine, independent following, including in the U.K., while Stella also worked in New York theater and spoke openly, often controversially, about poverty, domestic violence, and the treatment of women in the music industry.
She was named the Christian Country Music Association’s Female Vocalist of the Year in 2004.
Through all of it, she remained defined publicly, more often than not, as simply “Dolly’s little sister” — a label she spent five decades quietly proving didn’t tell the full story.
That same directness is why her comments in the fall of 2025 carried real weight.
Stella had never positioned herself as the family’s image manager or spokesperson; she was, by reputation, someone who believed difficult truths shouldn’t stay hidden indefinitely.
What she described wasn’t dramatic or accusatory — it was a portrait of a woman who had spent years prioritizing everyone else’s needs over her own.
The context mattered.
Carl Dean, Dolly’s husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025 at 82, after a long illness during which Dolly had devoted herself almost entirely to his care.
She later acknowledged that in the process, she’d neglected her own health significantly.
The loss reverberated through the whole extended family — the Partons had lost three brothers in the years surrounding this period, compounding grief that, for a family that had once crowded twelve children into a single small home, meant losing pieces of a shared childhood one after another.
Stella herself went seven years without releasing new music during this stretch, later describing the period simply as one shaped by sorrow, while still speaking about the importance of finding moments of laughter within it.
Looking back, one moment reads very differently in hindsight than it did at the time: in late September 2025, Dolly postponed her planned Las Vegas residency, citing health challenges — a rare cancellation for a performer whose six-decade career had included very few of them.
At the time, most fans treated it as a minor, temporary setback.
Stella’s later reflections suggested the signs had actually been building for some time, visible to family in ways the public smile made easy to miss.
That concern crystallized publicly not long after, when Dolly’s younger sister Frieda posted a simple request on Facebook asking fans to pray for Dolly.
What looked at first like an ordinary, well-meaning gesture spread rapidly, sparking widespread speculation about how serious Dolly’s condition actually was.
Dolly herself responded directly within days, appearing in a video from a Grand Ole Opry commercial shoot, insisting with her familiar humor that she wasn’t finished yet — the now widely remembered “I ain’t dead yet” moment that briefly quieted public concern.
In the months that followed, the pattern repeated: reassuring updates about kidney stones, dehydration, and treatment, paired with continued work on new projects, right up until Dolly Parton’s death on August 25, 2026, at 80.
Looking back across that full timeline — the postponed residency, the family’s public worry, Stella’s own account of a sister who consistently deprioritized her own wellbeing — it becomes easier to see what the people closest to Dolly understood well before the rest of the world did: that the warmth and resilience the public saw every time she appeared on camera came at a real, largely invisible cost.
