Holdout Juror in Lindsay Clancy Trial Used Exercise Bands and Water Bottle to Mimic Murders

The holdout juror who refused to cast a vote for an acquittal in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial allegedly displayed questionable behavior during deliberations, another juror has claimed.

Nick Darcy was one of just three men who served on the jury in Lindsay’s case, which ended in a mistrial after the panel failed to reach a unanimous verdict on whether to hold Lindsay criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children with ex-husband Patrick Clancy: Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months.

Darcy, 25, claimed to ABC News the holdout juror exhibited strange behaviors, including “scrolling on his phone while people are talking to him, things like that.”

But it was one act in particular that Darcy said he still can’t wrap his mind around.

“He took the exercise band out of the bag, grabbed an empty water bottle and tied the band around the water bottle and pulled it,” Darcy claimed.

The three children were strangled with exercise bands. Asked if it appeared that the lone juror was perhaps mimicking the deaths, Darcy replied, “I assume so, yeah. I was shocked. It didn’t make any sense to me. We’re not in here to play detective. It’s not a game of clue. This is serious. I asked him, ‘Why are you doing that?’ It’s disgusting.”

Darcy said he could not recall if the unnamed juror explained why he did that. “No, he might of,” he said. “I think I was just so shocked that he did that.”

Darcy said he also repeatedly pressed the holdout juror about his vote.

“There was several times I would ask him to show us evidence or describe a witness testimony that helped to prove what he was saying and he couldn’t. There wasn’t a single piece of evidence or witness testimony that he used to prove why he was thinking the way he was, which is why we ultimately sent in that note.”

As Globe previously reported, Lindsay, 36, has admitted to killing her three children, but her defense argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis.

Following the mistrial, which was declared on Friday, September 4, Massachusetts’ Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz and his prosecutorial team will decide whether to pursue a new trial, negotiate a plea deal, or drop the charges following the hung jury.

If it results in a new trial, Darcy said he believes Lindsay will be found not guilty.

“I think if they try the trial again the way they did, nine times out of 10, I think a jury would come back as not guilty by reason of insanity. No doubt in my mind,” Darcy concluded.