Patrick Clancy is the most searched-for witness in Massachusetts. Every month tens of thousands of people ask what he does for a living, how old he is, who his parents are, what happened to the GoFundMe that raised a million dollars in a week, and where he lives now. Most of the answers are in the public record, scattered across a 2023 statement, a long New Yorker profile, trial testimony and Sunday’s “60 Minutes” interview. This is the full account in one place.
Where a fact comes from one source only, we say so. Where the public does not know something, we say that too.
What Patrick Clancy does for a living
He works in software at Microsoft. He said so himself in the statement he released on January 28, 2023, four days after the killings, in a passage about his youngest child: “Sometimes he joined my Microsoft calls in the background.” The same statement thanks “the Microsoft community” among the groups that supported him.
The New Yorker’s Eren Orbey, who spent months with Clancy for a profile published in October 2024, wrote that he “often described himself to me as a ‘software guy’ with little knowledge about mental health,” and that he worked from a home office in Duxbury during the months of his wife’s illness. Orbey reported that in June 2024 Clancy was “preparing to resume his job the next day, after almost eighteen months of leave from Microsoft.”
The GoFundMe organized for him in January 2023 explained the leave. It said the money was “especially needed because Pat will be unable to work for the foreseeable future as he weathers this painful, life-altering tragedy.” His title, team and whether he still works there today have not been reported, and people searching for his LinkedIn page should know that he has not made any professional profile part of his public statements.
How old he is, and where he grew up
The New Yorker described him in 2024 as “thirty-six but looks younger, with pale-blue eyes, cowlicked dark-blond hair, and a narrow, clean-shaven face.” That puts him at 37 or 38 now. On “60 Minutes” he said that after the killings “there was a time where I didn’t think I would live to see my 35th birthday.”
He grew up on the South Shore of Massachusetts, in what the magazine called “a sprawling Catholic family,” with “forty-some first cousins.” He has sailed competitively since childhood; there is a sailing trophy on his apartment wall. His parents live on Scituate Harbor, not far from where he grew up, and he stayed with them in the months after January 2023.
His parents
His mother is Sue Clancy. She spoke to The New Yorker at length and is the only member of his family to have been quoted publicly. She grew up in a working-class family on the South Shore. Of her son she said: “Pat doesn’t like to be angry. He doesn’t like hostility. He’s always been that type, since he was very little.” She kept a custom jigsaw puzzle of Dawson smiling in a pile of leaves on her coffee table, a birthday gift from her son.
His father has not been named or quoted in any report we have found. The family attended the first-anniversary memorial service at the Clancys’ old church in Duxbury together in January 2024.
How he met Lindsay
In the summer of 2013, according to The New Yorker, he met Lindsay Musgrove, a 22-year-old nursing student from suburban Connecticut who was living with one of his cousins. She was a former cheerleader who had graduated from Quinnipiac University. They married in December 2016. Cora was born in 2017, Dawson in 2019, and Callan in May 2022. Lindsay Clancy worked as a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital.
The GoFundMe
The fundraiser most people are searching for was not started by Patrick Clancy. It was organized by Matthew Glaser of Wakefield in the days after January 24, 2023, with a goal of $250,000, “to help Pat pay for medical bills, funeral services, and legal help.”
It passed the goal almost immediately. NBC Boston reported that by 3 p.m. on Monday, January 30, four days after it went live, it had raised more than $900,000 from more than 13,000 donors, and the goal had been raised to $1 million. Donors included the Quinnipiac cheer alumni group. Reports at the time and since have put the eventual total above $1 million. The page is no longer accepting donations, and no accounting of how the money was spent has been published, which is normal for a personal fundraiser and not a matter of public record.
There is a second set of fundraisers people confuse with this one. After the mistrial in September 2026, fundraising pages appeared claiming to support the holdout juror. The juror’s lawyer said none of them was authorized. We covered that in our report on the juror’s statement. We are not aware of any public fundraiser for Lindsay Clancy’s defense.
The 2023 statement
The statement that accompanied the fundraiser is the reason many people first heard Patrick Clancy’s name. It described each child. Cora “had an infectious laugh,” wanted “to be a doctor and a mama,” and practiced by giving Callan checkups. Dawson had “beautiful, bold, brown eyes that beamed with friendship” and loved “trucks, tractors, dinosaurs, Paw Patrol, ‘worker guys’ and being outside.” Callan was “Happy Callan,” the easy third child. And it asked the public “to forgive Lindsay, as I have.”
On “60 Minutes” he explained where that came from. He had seen headlines calling his wife “Killer Mom,” “Baby Murderer” and “Monster.” “None of ’em were accurate. I believe that it was her mental illness that caused that. So I shared those words. And I think when it comes to forgiveness, I also felt that if I didn’t get there, I would be eaten up inside forever.”
Where he lives now
Manhattan. He moved from Duxbury to New York in April 2023, three months after the killings. He told “60 Minutes” the reason: five weeks after arriving, on what would have been Callan’s first birthday, he lit a candle at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, walked out onto Fifth Avenue crying, “and nobody cared.” He said, “I thought, ‘This is where I need to be. I can grieve.'”
The New Yorker described a tidy midtown apartment with a mounted acoustic guitar, the sailing trophy, and keepsakes from Duxbury: a rainbow blanket, pillows stitched from the children’s clothes, Dawson’s helicopter, Cora’s stuffed sloth. He ran the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2024. In January 2024 he met Dr. Rachel Danis at a New York run club; they married in April 2026. We have a separate piece on who Rachel Danis is and what she said on 60 Minutes.
He sold the Duxbury house. A new playground in Duxbury, shown in the broadcast, was built with a touchstone for each child: sloths for Cora, a firefighter for Dawson, a toddler playpen for Callan.
His lawsuit
Patrick Clancy has a wrongful death lawsuit pending in Norfolk Superior Court against four of his ex-wife’s mental health providers: psychiatrist Dr. Jennifer Tufts, psychiatric nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta, Aster Mental Health, and South Shore Health. The complaint accuses them of prescribing “a bevy of diverse and powerful medications” that worsened her condition. He is represented by Howard Cooper and Maria Davis of Todd & Weld.
The defendants moved to dismiss in April 2026, arguing they owed no duty of care to the children and that a Massachusetts statute, G.L. c. 123, § 36B, shields mental health professionals from liability for failing to warn or protect unless the patient has a history of violence or has communicated a specific threat. Clancy’s opposition says the complaint “specifically alleges that Lindsay communicated to [her providers] that ‘she was both suicidal and homicidal as to her children,'” and that Lindsay Clancy will testify to that when deposed. A hearing is scheduled for October 28, 2026. Lindsay Clancy has her own malpractice suit against eleven defendants in the same court. Boston.com published a status report on both cases on September 10.
His role in the criminal case
He was the prosecution’s first witness in July 2026 and testified across two days. On the second day, before the 911 call was played, he had what he described on “60 Minutes” as a “massive traumatic panic attack” in a back room, was placed in an ambulance, refused medication, and returned to finish. He was not in the courtroom when the recording played.
As the father of the victims he has a statutory right under G.L. c. 258B, § 3 to confer with the district attorney before any decision to retry, reduce or dismiss, and no right to make that decision. Through attorney David Meier he has said the prospect of another trial is “extraordinarily painful.” The parties return to Judge William Sullivan on September 29.
What is not known
His current title at Microsoft, or whether he remains there. His father’s name. His exact address. The final GoFundMe total to the dollar. Whether he opposes a retrial, as distinct from finding one painful. Anyone who tells you these things is guessing.
What does Patrick Clancy do for a living?
He works in software at Microsoft, by his own description in 2023 and in The New Yorker’s 2024 profile. He took about eighteen months of leave after January 2023 and was returning to work in June 2024.
How old is Patrick Clancy?
The New Yorker reported he was 36 in October 2024, which makes him 37 or 38 in September 2026.
Who are Patrick Clancy’s parents?
His mother is Sue Clancy. His parents live on Scituate Harbor on the South Shore. His father has not been publicly named.
How much did the Patrick Clancy GoFundMe raise?
More than $900,000 in its first four days from over 13,000 donors, with the goal raised to $1 million. It was organized by Matthew Glaser of Wakefield.
Where does Patrick Clancy live now?
Manhattan. He moved to New York in April 2023 and remarried there in April 2026.
Is Patrick Clancy suing anyone?
Yes. He has a wrongful death suit against four of Lindsay Clancy’s mental health providers in Norfolk Superior Court, with a hearing on their motion to dismiss on October 28, 2026.
Employment, age, family and living details from Patrick Clancy’s January 28, 2023 statement as published by NBC Boston, Eren Orbey’s profile in The New Yorker (October 2024), and the CBS News transcript of the September 20, 2026 “60 Minutes” broadcast. GoFundMe figures from NBC Boston, January 30, 2023. Civil case status from Boston.com, September 10, 2026. G.L. c. 123, § 36B and c. 258B, § 3 read at malegislature.gov. Lindsay Clancy is presumed innocent of the charges against her. General information about Massachusetts law, not legal advice.