PLYMOUTH, Mass. (Court TV) — Three women who served together on the jury in one of the biggest murder cases of the year are revealing what really happened inside the jury room before the judge declared a mistrial.
Lindsay Clancy appears in court on Aug. 24, 2026. (Gregory Derr/The Patriot Ledger/POOL)
Lindsay Clancy, 36, stood trial on charges that she murdered her three young children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. Clancy admitted to strangling her children with exercise bands in the family’s basement before slashing her wrists and throat and jumping from a second-story window, but claimed that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time and not legally responsible for her actions.
After hearing five weeks of witness testimony and evidence, a panel of 12 jurors deliberated for seven days before ultimately telling Judge William Sullivan that they could not come to a unanimous decision. The jury foreperson, Roni Carlson, wrote a note to Sullivan saying the panel was deadlocked 11-1 because one person refused to follow the law on reasonable doubt. “He admitted he had reasonable doubt and I started filling out the [verdict] forms; I was so excited,” Carlson told Boston NBC affiliate WBTS, recalling the early hours of deliberation in the jury room. But then the male juror said, “I’m still not going to say that she’s not guilty by reason of insanity,” she said.
“He was very arrogant,” juror Paula Devil recalled, saying there were nurses on the panel who offered insight into the impact of different medications that Clancy had been prescribed. “He just completely disregarded the information that they gave him.”
Three members of the jury sat down with WBTS to talk about the trial, and each had harsh words for the prosecution. “I think the prosecution did itself more damage than good,” Kellie Farina said. “I found it to be biased right out of the gate. And I found it to be kind of unprofessional and kind of without a heart … We didn’t find any compassion in the prosecution. I know it’s their job, but in a case like this, you expect a little bit.”
“We kept having to bring ourselves back to the fact that we weren’t trying to figure out if she murdered the children,” Carlson said. “She did, and she’s admitting that. We’re trying to figure out, ‘Did she know right from wrong at that time?'”
NBC10’s Sue O’Connell spoke to three jurors from Lindsay Clancy’s trial (NBC10 Boston)
The jurors told the station’s Sue O’Connell that they will be friends for life, bonded by what was, at times, a heart-wrenching experience. The three women revealed that the panel listened to the 911 call placed by Clancy’s husband — which was not allowed to be broadcast when it was played in court — a second time during their deliberations. “We listened to things that we did not want to listen to,” Devil said. “Audio that nobody in the room wanted to hear again. And we made ourselves do that so we could understand things better.”
“It’s something that I will never not hear if I think about it,” Farina said. “It was the most horrific thing.”
Clancy will return to court on Sept. 29, when her attorney, Kevin Reddington, is expected to argue a motion to dismiss the charges. At that hearing, prosecutors are expected to confirm whether they plan to retry the defendant on the same charges.
