A male juror from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial has spoken out to defend Patrick Clancy against online conspiracy theorists who accuse him of murdering his own children.
Nick Dargie, 25, who served as Juror number 10, said’s “GMA” in an interview that aired Thursday morning that he rejects the theory that Clancy’s husband was responsible for the killings. Dargie was one of three male jurors on the panel that ultimately deadlocked, forcing Judge William Sullivan to declare a mistrial.
“I don’t believe in the conspiracy theory that [Patrick Clancy] was the one who did it,” Dargie said.
The 25-year-old juror pointed to the father’s 911 call as evidence that would silence doubters. “I think if everyone heard that 911 call they would change their mind,” he added, referring to the vocal online faction that insists Patrick Clancy killed Dawson, 3, Cora, 5, and Callan, 8 months.
That call, which Judge Sullivan refused to release to the public, left a permanent mark on Dargie. “I’ll never forget [the 911 call.] That was frightening. I never heard something like that, a scream like that coming out of someone’s mouth; it’s horrifying,” he said.
Lindsay Clancy herself admitted to leading her three children one by one into the basement of the couple’s Duxbury, Massachusetts home, where she strangled them with elastic exercise bands after dispatching her husband on an errand. She then cut herself and jumped from the second floor in an apparent suicide attempt, an act that left her wheelchair-bound.
The case has spawned a disturbing corner of internet speculation that redirects blame toward Patrick Clancy despite his wife’s admissions and his own frantic emergency call. Dargie’s public comments mark the first time a sitting juror has directly confronted these claims.
Kevin Reddington, Lindsay Clancy’s attorney, said on Wednesday that his client is distressed by the theories targeting her husband. “She knew that it was just terrible what he was going through,” Reddington said.
The mistrial came after the state’s highest court denied an emergency appeal from the defense, which had sought to block the jury from considering a lesser charge of manslaughter. The panel reportedly deadlocked over whether Clancy’s documented postpartum mental health struggles warranted a murder conviction or the reduced charge, with one holdout juror preventing consensus.
Dargie’s emotional defense of Patrick Clancy adds a new dimension to the post-trial narrative, shifting some focus from the defendant’s psychiatric history to the secondary trauma inflicted on the surviving parent by unfounded accusations. The 911 call that so affected Dargie remains sealed, leaving the public to weigh his account against the conspiracy theories that continue to circulate online.
The prosecution has not yet announced whether it will retry Lindsay Clancy on murder charges.