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NEW: Lindsay Clancy Jurors Break Their Silence In Interview After Mistrial

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Three jurors from the Lindsay Clancy murder trial spoke publicly for the first time on Tuesday, just, days after a mistrial was declared on September 4.

The Plymouth Superior Court jury of nine women and three men deliberated for approximately 38 hours over seven days before remaining deadlocked 11-1. Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, was charged with murder in the January 2023 deaths of her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The defense argued that she was not criminally responsible due to mental illness, including postpartum psychosis.

NBC 10 Boston conducted an exclusive interview lasting more than an hour with three female jurors, including the foreperson, identified as Ronnie, a retired fifth-grade special needs teacher. The other two were identified as Kelly, a retired chef from Plymouth, and Paula, who worked for government contractors. The foreperson had previously written a note to Judge William Sullivan raising concerns about one juror.

“He admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the forms, I was so excited,” the foreperson said of the one jury who refused to acquit. “There were three forms I had to fill out and I started filling them out. I wrote my signature on each one and then he said, ‘But I’m still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity.’”

One of the jurors seethed that the holdout was “arrogant” because he believed Clamcy was guilty. “He was very arrogant. He really did not take anything that anybody said.”

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The same juror stated that nurses on the panel reviewed hospital records from South Shore Hospital and a toxicology report regarding Clancy’s medications, adding: “He just completely disregarded the information that they gave him.”

Another one of the interviewed jurors said the holdout “had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.”

Jurors also reported that the holdout retrieved exhibits from a cart only once. “He would not interact with us and try to understand. We read to him the definition of reasonable doubt. … He said one day, ‘Why don’t we have the judge read it again?’ and we were like, ‘No, we have it in front of us.’”

The three jurors told NBC10 Boston that arguments during deliberations were loud enough for the six alternate jurors to hear, leading the alternates to believe the panel was fighting. They said they remained determined to reach a verdict.

Separately, juror No. 5, a woman who asked to remain anonymous, spoke to WBZ-TV about the case. “At the end of the day, there was so much doubt. The prosecution didn’t have a figurative smoking gun. There was not a single moment throughout the presentation of that case where you could say ‘Yup, 100% I’m certain she did it’ or that she didn’t do it. There was too much gray area.”

She added that she initially believed Clancy was criminally responsible. “And maybe I still believe that in a certain way. I think that this is a woman who was not mentally healthy. She was someone who was in the throes of a significant mental health crisis.”

On the holdout juror, she indicated that he was not the only one with doubts. “The stand-alone juror was not the only one that was unwilling to see things from the other side. … 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.”

Prosecutors have not yet indicated whether they will bring the case again.

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