Lindsay and Patrick Clancy’s former Duxbury, Massachusetts, home, where the couple’s three children were found dead, was quietly sold to a former prosecutor less than a year after the tragedy, property records mentioned by several news outlets show.

Patrick Clancy first told The New Yorker in October 2024 that the home had been sold earlier that year, though he did not name the buyer. “There’s no house anymore,” he said. “There are no kids. All that’s left is me and Lindsay.”

The buyer and new owner, former Plymouth County Assistant District Attorney Michael C. Phippen, tried to block a juror viewing at a pretrial hearing in June, saying through his lawyer that the visit would be “massively disruptive” to his day-to-day life.

What to Know About the Lindsay Clancy Case

A Massachusetts-based nurse, Lindsay Clancy was alone with her three children, Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months), on January 24, 2023, when her then-husband went, at her request, to get takeout food and something from the pharmacy.

When he came back, he found Lindsay with injuries to her neck and wrists, suggesting she had attempted suicide; the children were unconscious in the basement, appearing to have been strangled. They later died from their injuries.

Lindsay Clancy has been accused of strangling and killing her children, and has pleaded not guilty to the charges. She has said she was experiencing symptoms of postpartum psychosis, and she and Patrick have filed a lawsuit against the medical providers who treated her for postpartum mental health issues.

Her highly publicized murder trial began on July 20, and jurors started deliberations on Thursday. The former nurse did not testify but was in court.

Patrick Clancy, who testified at her trial that Lindsay was not “a monster,” has remarried and now lives in New York City.

What Happened to the Family’s Home?

Lindsay and Patrick Clancy had bought the house at 47 Summer Street in Duxbury in July 2018 for $500,000, according to public records, when they had been married for nearly two years but did not yet have kids.

The property, a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home built in 1972 and featuring a basement and a garage, was put up for sale by Patrick Clancy after the deaths of the children and Lindsay’s arrest, before he moved to New York City in 2023.

The home was never publicly listed, according to the real estate listings website Realtor.com, and was then purchased off-market by Phippen on January 5, 2024, for $675,000 at less than its estimated value. Zillow estimates the property at $778,400.

This has been a bargain for Phippen, who secured a home in a tight housing market at an unusually low price. According to Zillow, the average home value in Duxbury is $1,131,969, and the median list price is $1,278,333.

Current listings for three-bedroom homes in Duxbury now active on Zillow have asking prices ranging from $430,000 (only two listings around this price) to $1,600,000.

Who Is Michael C. Phippen?

Phippen served as an assistant district attorney in Plymouth County, the Massachusetts county where the Clancy family lived, between April 2016 and December 2018, according to his LinkedIn page.

He has not been involved professionally in the Clancy case.

Phippen owns his own criminal defense practice, the Law Office of Michael C. Phippen, Esq., and has overseen the Boston-area firm Stark Lattuca’s criminal defense department since 2024.

Phippen has never publicly discussed why he bought the Clancy home.

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