The brother of the lone holdout juror in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial has spoken out, defending his sibling’s refusal to acquit the Massachusetts mother on insanity grounds and revealing that the family has been trapped inside their home by relentless harassment.
The unidentified male juror’s brother, whose name was withheld, said that his sibling reached his guilty verdict based solely on courtroom evidence rather than outside influence. Clancy, 36, faced three counts of first-degree murder for the January 2023 strangulation deaths of her children Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at the family’s Duxbury residence.
Eleven jurors concluded that Clancy lacked criminal responsibility due to severe postpartum psychosis and mental illness, but the holdout’s refusal to sign off on acquittal left the panel deadlocked after roughly 38 hours of deliberations. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4.
The brother directly addressed swirling online theories that Catholicism or religious conviction drove the holdout’s vote. “I don’t think religion had anything to do with it,” he stated flatly.
Instead, he emphasized a methodical, evidence-based approach. “[He] looked at the case, and he made the call,” the brother said. “For me, that’s how I would do it. I would just listen to the case with all the evidence, and go from there.”
The fallout has been severe and personal. “His choice was good for some people, but not good for other people,” the brother acknowledged. He revealed that critics have left angry notes at his mother’s home and that the harassment has made it impossible for the family to leave their house. “My family cannot leave the house. They won’t leave us alone and we don’t know anything. People have been calling me, like, crazy.”
The family had no advance warning that the man was even serving on the panel. “We didn’t know. That’s why I was shocked,” the brother told the outlet. “He didn’t tell us anything.”
The brother’s account follows blistering public criticism from fellow jurors who served alongside his sibling. Foreperson Roni Carlson and juror Nick Dargie have both spoken out, accusing the holdout of failing to articulate witness testimony or evidence to justify his guilty stance even after allegedly acknowledging reasonable doubt.
Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, has filed a motion asking the court to enter a finding of not guilty without subjecting his client to a second trial. Prosecutors have not yet announced whether they intend to retry the case.
The January 2023 killings occurred at the family’s Duxbury home, where Clancy strangled her three young children before attempting to take her own life by jumping from a second-story window. She survived with serious injuries including a broken back, and prosecutors charged her with murder while her defense team argued she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis that rendered her unable to understand the wrongfulness of her actions or conform her conduct to the law.