Lindsay Clancy Holdout Juror Breaks Silence, Says Other Jurors Acted Like Activists

The Lindsay Clancy holdout juror has reportedly broken his silence, saying the jurors who wanted to acquit acted like activists during deliberations. Ray Marcel, host of the YouTube channel Fugitive TV, said on September 15 that he spoke with the Clancy holdout juror, whom he identified only as Michael.

 

 

 

Marcel said he reached the juror by email. According to Marcel, Michael was not willing to speak on camera but may be open to it in the future. Marcel also showed the summons Michael received for jury duty. The juror has not made any public statement in his own voice.

 

Clancy admitted strangling her three young children in their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. Her defense argued she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, a rare and severe mental illness that can strike after childbirth and cause hallucinations and delusions. The defense asked jurors to find her not guilty by reason of insanity, meaning she could not be held criminally responsible because of her mental state at the time.

 

After five weeks of trial and roughly 40 hours of deliberations, the jury deadlocked 11 to 1. Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4.

 

According to Marcel, Michael described a jury that was leaning toward Clancy before deliberations really got going. “He said that from day one, he said eight of them were going for Lindsay Clancy not guilty,” Marcel said. “Eight were going not guilty. Two were for guilty. And two didn’t know.”

 

That split matches what juror Paula Devlin told CBS last week. She said the jury started at eight for not responsible, two for guilty of murder and two undecided.

 

Marcel said Michael told him the jury voted every day, and the eight jurors pushed the other four to come around. “He felt like they were activists is what he told me,” Marcel said.

 

Marcel also said Michael told him another juror believed Clancy was guilty but changed her vote at the last moment and joined the rest of the panel. That left Michael as the only juror who would not agree to an insanity verdict.

 

Michael’s account is a very different picture from the one the other jurors have painted. Three of them, including the foreperson, told NBC10 Boston that the holdout admitted he had reasonable doubt but still refused to vote not guilty by reason of insanity. Juror Nick Dargie told ABC News that the holdout never pointed to a single piece of evidence or testimony to support his position. Dargie said he often scrolled on his phone instead of engaging. Dargie also said the holdout took the exercise band Clancy used to strangle her children out of the evidence bag, tied it around an empty water bottle and pulled it.
The jury was made up of nine women and three men. Devlin said the only juror of color was a Black man in his 30s, and he was the holdout.

 

Once those details went public, the search for his identity took off. NBC10 Boston repeatedly tried to reach him at his home and spoke with his family, his former wife and his landlord. The station reported an old domestic violence allegation, a restraining order that has since expired and an eviction dispute involving more than $12,000 in unpaid rent. His name and photo then spread across social media.
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, had already put a target on him. After the mistrial, Reddington said the holdout “robbed” the other jurors of their verdict and added, “I hope that guy can sleep well at night.”

 

His family says they are now living in fear. His brother told the New York Post that strangers have been calling relatives nonstop and leaving notes at their mother’s home. “My family cannot leave the house,” he said. According to the family, they did not even know he was serving on the jury until the mistrial was declared.

 

Judge Sullivan has since ordered the names of the jurors impounded, which means they are sealed from the public, citing a real and present risk to their safety.

 

Legal observers have warned that what happened to the Clancy holdout juror could make people afraid to serve on juries in high-profile cases, especially if Clancy is tried again.

 

Prosecutors and the defense are scheduled to return to court September 29 to address what happens next in the case.