Patrick Clancy and his wife, Dr. Rachel Danis, sit down with 60 Minutes correspondent Ross Douthat in an interview scheduled to air Sunday, September 20, 2026, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS and Paramount+, CBS News said — the couple’s first extended television sit-down after Lindsay Clancy’s Massachusetts triple-murder case ended in a mistrial.

CBS released interview clips ahead of the broadcast. The Guardian summarized the same advance material on September 19. Insanity Developing has covered the Clancy trial and mistrial extensively; this piece is the 60 Minutes airing peg, not a rehash of the jury fight alone.

What Danis and Patrick say

Danis, speaking publicly in the advance clips for the first time since the couple’s private life became a social-media spectacle, told Douthat she does not recognize how their story has been framed online.

“I don’t understand how the story’s been so twisted,” Danis said, according to CBS News, “but I would hope people know that Pat is, as I said before, the most selfless father and supportive partner.”

She described meeting Clancy while running in New York’s Central Park on a cold Saturday and said the couple married earlier this year. “I was just a girl that met a guy running in Central Park on a really cold Saturday. And I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that,” she told the program, CBS reported.

Patrick Clancy, in clips CBS and The Guardian both highlighted, reflected on grief and on what he called baseless conspiracy theories that flooded social media after the trial. Asked whether he still talks to his children, he said he does “all the time.”

“What do you say?” Douthat asked. “Help me. All the time,” Clancy replied. Asked whether they help him: “I like to believe they do. It’s a way I stay connected to them.”

The Guardian’s September 19 headline quoted Clancy saying, “I think I did the best I could.”

The trial context

Lindsay Clancy stood trial over the January 2023 killings of the couple’s three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan. Her defense argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible; the case ended in a mistrial after a lone holdout blocked an insanity acquittal, CBS and The Guardian reported.

Prosecutors have not announced whether they will seek a retrial. The Guardian noted a September 29 hearing at Plymouth Superior Court on that question.

Clancy and Danis’s marriage became a focus of online commentary during the trial. The 60 Minutes interview is their chance to answer that noise on network television — and to talk about grief without the courtroom’s constraints. Whether a retrial follows is still the legal question hanging over the family; Sunday’s broadcast is the media one.

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