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Jurors are continuing to describe what happened behind closed doors after a mistrial was declared in the case of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy, who was accused in the strangling deaths of her three young children: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan.
The jury, made up of nine women and three men, ultimately reached an 11-1 split and could not agree on a verdict. But according to one woman identified as Juror No. 5, the final holdout was not the only person who initially believed Clancy was guilty.
Lindsay Clancy looks toward jurors as Judge Sullivan instructs them to begin a sixth day of deliberations during her murder trial on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (Pool Photo by Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger)
“The stand-alone juror was not the only one that was unwilling to see things from the other side, so I’m going to kind of defend that individual in a sense,” she told Boston’s WBZ-TV. “There were some big personalities in that room, but at the end of the day, it just came down to an inability to move past your convictions.”
Juror No. 5 said she also began deliberations leaning toward a guilty verdict.
Callan, left, Dawson and Cora Clancy. The three children were killed at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. (Lindsay Marie Clancy/Facebook)
“And maybe I still believe that in a certain way,” she said. “I think that this is a woman who was not mentally healthy.”
The lone holdout has not yet come forward publicly as of Wednesday morning, and Judge William Sullivan impounded the jury list at the end of the high-profile trial amid privacy and safety concerns.
Patrick Clancy leaves his apartment building in East Midtown in New York City, NY, Thursday, September 3, 2026. Clancy’s ex-wife, Lindsay Clancy is currently on trial for the murder of their three children in 2023. (Elder Ordonez/InStar for News Outlet)
Three others, including the jury foreperson, sat down for a televised interview with NBC 10 Boston Tuesday, accusing the lone holdout juror of “admitting he had reasonable doubt” but refused to budge from insisting Clancy was criminally responsible for strangling Cora, Dawson and Callan.
They called him “arrogant” and accused him of disregarding information from “nurses on the jury.”
Kevin J. Reddington Addresses the media outside of Plymouth Superior Court, Plymouth, Mass., Thursday, September, 3, 2026. His client, Lindsay Clancy is on trial for the murder of her three children in 2023. (David McGlynn for News Outlet)
The foreperson also reportedly told NBC News that she plans to go to the potential retrial in person in support of Clancy’s defense.
Jurors deliberated for a full week, telling Sullivan they were deadlocked multiple times until he declared the mistrial Friday afternoon after denying Clancy defense attorney Kevin Reddington’s request to have the holdout juror removed.
The trial centered on whether Clancy was criminally responsible for her actions at the time she strangled each of them with exercise bands in 2023, and the defense argued she wasn’t due to postpartum psychosis.
Reddington did not immediately respond to requests from News Outlet for comment.
