Lindsay Clancy Jury Sent Home Again After Reporting Deadlock: ‘They’re Working Hard’

A Massachusetts jury still hasn’t landed on an answer on whether Lindsay Clancy can be held criminally responsible in her children’s murders despite deliberating over the course of four days.

Lindsay, 36, is charged with murdering her three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan — who she shared with ex-husband Patrick Clancy — by strangling them with exercise bands inside the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023.

Judge William Sullivan dismissed jurors for the day Tuesday, September 1, and asked them to return Wednesday at 9 a.m. to continue deliberating.

As Globe previously reported, the panel told Sullivan earlier on September 1 that it was deadlocked and unable to reach a unanimous decision, but he sent them back to keep working.

While the former labor and delivery nurse does not deny killing the children, she has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility.

Lindsay’s attorney Kevin Reddington has argued throughout the trial that she was suffering from severe postpartum psychosis and overmedication at the time of the killings.

According to the Boston Globe, Reddington said on Tuesday he believes the jury is “working hard,” adding, “I think they’ve demonstrated the fact that they’re very, very sincere.”

Jurors are weighing charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder and manslaughter, with the added options of a not guilty verdict or a finding of not guilty by lack of criminal responsibility.

In closing arguments, Reddington claimed Lindsay was failed by medical providers after she sought help for her postpartum mental health struggles.

Prosecutors have countered that Lindsay was not in a psychotic state and acted deliberately.

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