Lone Lindsay Clancy holdout couldn’t ‘wrap his head around’ her suicide attempt

Clancy remains paralyzed after slashing her wrists, and jumping out of a second-storey window after fatally strangling her children

Published Sep 11, 2026  •  Last updated 11 minutes ago  •  2 minute read

Kevin Reddington, defense attorney for Lindsay Clancy, and Lindsay Clancy look on as Judge William Sullivan (out of frame) instructs the jury to continue deliberating, during Lindsay Clancy's murder trial at the Plymouth County Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on September 4, 2026. Photo by GREG DERR /POOL/AFP via Getty Images

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Jurors on the Lindsay Clancy trial are speaking out after a judge declared a mistrial when the deadlocked jury couldn’t come to a unanimous verdict.

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Paula Devlin, who was one of 11 to vote Clancy not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility, appeared on CBS Mornings on Friday, revealing that the lone holdout was unable to “wrap his head around” her apparent suicide attempt following the killings of her three children.

“That she could do this one at a time, and then do all the steps that she did to go and commit suicide,” Devlin explained.

Clancy, 36, remains paralyzed after slashing her wrists, and jumping out of a second-storey window after fatally strangling her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old — an act she has never denied.

Clancy’s defence was that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time, arguing that she was not criminally responsible.

‘Justice for those children’

Devlin said she did not feel right about that motion.

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“Part of the reason why we wanted ‘not responsible’ was that everybody wants justice for those children,” she told King. “Those children never left that room, they’ve never left our hearts. And that was a way to get justice for those children.”

She added: “This wouldn’t have happened if Lindsay didn’t get lost in the system and failed by the system.”

Lindsay Clancy and two of her children. Photo by File photo

If Clancy had been found not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility, she would not have been immediately released.

Instead, she now faces a potentially indefinite series of orders of commitment to a secure mental health facility.

When King asked her what she believes justice looks like in Clancy’s case, she replied, “I think the ‘not responsible’ and getting the help that she needs and making more awareness about postpartum.”

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Not ‘a single piece of evidence’ shown

Another juror sat down with Good Morning America on Thursday, where he revealed how the one juror mimicked the stranglings with one of the exercise bands Clancy used to kill her kids during their deliberations.

“I was so shocked. We’re not here to play detective – it’s not a game of Clue. This is serious,” Nick Dargie said.

“I asked him why are you doing that? That’s a band that was used to strangle a child. That’s disgusting.”

Dargie noted that the still-unidentified holdout refused to budge — but never explained his reasoning.

“There wasn’t a single piece of evidence or witness testimony that he used to prove why he was thinking the way he was,” he detailed.

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Dargie added that “several” jurors were initially leaning toward a guilty verdict, but ultimately found the prosecution’s case “inconsistent” and the experts called by the defence more believable.

“We spent seven weeks on this trial, almost two months of all our lives dedicated to it.”

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Prosecutors have not yet said if they plan to retry the exhausting case.

Clancy’s lawyer Kevin Reddington has since filed a motion to have his client found not guilty, citing juror interviews.

Clancy remains in a state-run psychiatric facility, Tewksbury Hospital. A follow-up hearing is scheduled for Sept. 29.

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