Patrick Clancy & Rachel Danis: Barry's Bootcamp Photo, Costa Rica, and the Affair Theory

Stephanie Soo (0:02)

About an hour outside of New York City, ambulances are rushing to this million-dollar private residence. It's a house. It's the house of an oncology specialist that works at Mount Sinai in New York City. She's known to be an investigator of breast cancer clinical trials. She's very accomplished in her life. When the ambulance gets there to the scene, two individuals have already passed by gunshot. The doctor, Dr. Crystal Cassetta, she is the prominent oncologist in the city, and her four-month-old daughter. The authorities are very quick to rule this a murder-self-exit, with a lot of netizens agreeing that there is likely some sort of postpartum psychosis or severe postpartum depression at play here. I mean, this incident was particularly shocking, as many of Crystal's colleagues, they're coming forward, and yes, they are expressing a lot of grief, but they're also expressing shock. People describe her as someone who was dedicated and passionate about her job in healthcare, who was dedicated to being a good mother. Nobody saw any sort of warning signs that something very bad was happening. The only surviving member of the immediate family was the husband, the father of the four-month-old child. There were other witnesses in the home that were present, but it seems to be Crystal's parents were home, and they thought something fell from upstairs, and when they rushed up. But the husband, Tim Talty, was not home at the time of the incident. Tim Talty will soon get a message, though, from someone who believes they're going through very similar things. Someone whose family was in the news just eight months prior, and he gets a message from Patrick Clancy.

Patrick reaches out to Tim, and by this point, Patrick lives in New York City, so they're able to meet up, grab a pizza, and we know all of this because Patrick Clancy has done a few interviews since January 24th, 2023 The main one initially was this extensive narrative piece done by the New Yorker. That's from October 2024, and in that piece, Patrick tells the author that he actually read about what happened to Dr. Cascetta. Patrick says, Crystal, Dr. Cascetta, kind of looked like Lindsay, so for a couple of days, I couldn't stop thinking about them.

On the surface, I will say, with the two cases, there does appear to be similarities. Two incredibly accomplished professionals in the healthcare industry, two women whose peers have nothing but positive things to say about them, that nobody saw this coming, and it's all happening within the same year of 2023

But as far as visual similarities, I tried to go through a lot of reddit pages. I couldn't find a single redditor, and maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough, right? Or maybe it's subjective. I couldn't find a single person pointing out the visual similarities of Dr. Cascada and Lindsey Clancy.

But some netizens think it's interesting because there is another visual similarity in the Clancy children case that has some netizens confused, and that's the visual similarity between Lindsey Clancy, the woman who was on trial for the murder of her three children, and Rachel Danis, the new wife of Patrick Clancy. Some netizens believe that Lindsey and Rachel look so similar. They would even go as far to question how Patrick can look at his new wife without seeing Lindsey. And with seeing Lindsey, maybe he is constantly reminded of his three children's passing. Would he be reminded of what Lindsey is accused of doing every time he looks at Rachel? And if he saw a visual similarity between Dr. Cascada and Lindsey that was so jolting that he couldn't stop thinking about them for a few days, does he see a visual similarity between Lindsey and Rachel Danis?

Does it even really matter in the grand scheme of things? I mean, I guess it depends on what chinettas in you ask. But this is part three of the Lindsey Clancy case.

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