〃Clancy, 36, admitted she fatally strangled her three children in the basement of the family’s Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. But her attorney argued she should not be held criminally responsible for the killings because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and extreme mental illness when she killed her children and then attempted suicide.
〃[jury foreperson] Carlson said there was no doubt Clancy killed her children, but it was also obvious to jurors that she loved them.
〃“We weren’t trying to figure out if she murdered the children. She did, and she’s admitting that. We’re trying to figure out did she know right from wrong at that time,” Carlson said. “Everything proved that she loved her children so she had to have snapped,” she said, citing Clancy’s journals and the testimony of her mother-in-law. […]
〃“He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children,” Kellie Farina said of the holdout, describing how the panel repeatedly pointed him to the judge’s instructions on reasonable doubt.〃
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/08/us/lindsay-clancy-mistrial-jurors
