Rwlatives say the grieving father and his family have struggled with the negative attention
But the prospect of walking back into the Plymouth courthouse may hardly have been an appealing one.
Outside the courthouse, crowds of women have gathered to support Lindsay, some openly condemning Patrick and repeating baseless claims.
Lindsay has already admitted to strangling all three of their children with fitness bands in January 2023.
But she insists she is not guilty of murder because she was in the grip of severe postpartum psychosis during the killings and could not comprehend what she was doing.
Jurors at Plymouth Superior Court have been asked to decide whether Lindsay deliberately murdered five-year-old Cora, three-year-old Dawson and eight-month-old Callan inside their Duxbury family home.
They can find her guilty of murder, convict her of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, or find her not criminally responsible because of mental illness.
Since Lindsay killed their children, she has been , where she has remained since May 2023.
He is suing the healthcare providers who treated Lindsay in the months before the killings, alleging their failures contributed to the tragedy
Couple Patrick Clancy and Rachel Danis have shared pᴀssions for charitable causes
Patrick found new love in Dr Rachel Danis, whom he married earlier this year
In that time, Patrick has been rebuilding and turning to a new chapter of his life.
He divorced Lindsay, relocated to New York City in May 2023, and sold the family’s Duxbury home in May 2024.
Throughout it all, he has continued to publicly defend his ex-wife against critics who brand her a monster, insisting she was driven to violence by a devastating mental health collapse rather than calculated cruelty.
He has not visited her in hospital since the killings.
PH๏τos of Patrick with Rachel Danis, 37, first surfaced online the following February, and she eventually moved into his Midtown apartment.
By late last year, she was pH๏τographed wearing what appeared to be an engagement ring, and the couple married this past April in a small, intimate ceremony in Central Park.
Both he and Rachel have reportedly received death threats, with their personal details posted publicly as part of a sustained harᴀssment campaign.
Lindsay Clancy supporters created a sea of pink outside Plymouth Superior Court last month
One member of the Clancy family, speaking to the Daily Mail on condition of anonymity, said it has been a hard time for the family.
‘Obviously, this is a very hard time for everybody in the family,’ the relative said.
Another relative said the ordeal has taken a heavy toll on Patrick as he tries to push forward with his life, adding that he has been seen viewing apartments in his area.
‘I think he is doing okay under the circumstances,’ the relative said. ‘It’s very stressful for the whole family.’
In Plymouth, Judge William Sullivan ordered the jury to continue deliberating after they told him Tuesday morning that they were unable to reach a unanimous decision.
‘I know that this was a long trial,’ he said. ‘I know there were over 80 witnesses, over 300 exhibits. But because of that, I’m going to ask you to go back out, keeping in mind all the instructions that I gave you, to go out and to continue your deliberations at this time.’
Lindsay, dressed in a beige sweater, showed no visible emotion as the judge spoke, with her parents and sister seated nearby in the courtroom.
She faces three counts of first-degree murder, a charge that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Jurors also have the option of convicting her of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter, which carries a far shorter sentence, or finding her not guilty by reason of lacking criminal responsibility, a verdict that would likely send her back into psychiatric commitment.
Should the jury remain ᴅᴇᴀᴅlocked, the judge retains the power to declare a mistrial.
Patrick grew emotional as he took the stand to testify in his ex-wife’s trial last month
The outcome of Lindsay’s murder trial could also affect something else Patrick holds dear – his fight for justice for his three ᴅᴇᴀᴅ children.
The Microsoft salesman is suing the healthcare providers who treated Lindsay in the months before the killings, arguing that their alleged failures contributed to the deaths of his children. The providers have denied the claims.
Legal experts say a guilty verdict would establish, in the eyes of the law, that Lindsay was criminally responsible for the deaths of Cora, Dawson and Callan.
That could significantly complicate Patrick’s $1 million wrongful-death lawsuit against her healthcare providers, potentially making it harder to argue that their actions were a cause of the children’s deaths.
A mistrial could create fresh complications for Patrick, including the possibility that he may have to testify again if Lindsay faces a retrial.
💔 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.
