Lindsay Clancy Jury Hits Stunning Roadblock After Days Of Deliberations

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial told the judge on Tuesday that they are “unable to come to a unanimous decision.”

Jurors sent a note to the judge at the start of day four jury deliberations that read, “After many hours of deliberation, we are unable to come to a unanimous decision.” Judge William Sullivan sent the jurors back and told them to continue deliberations.

Two female jurors reportedly smiled at one another as Judge Sullivan was looking over the note. One of the jurors, an older female who has worn pink on two days of deliberations, reportedly “shook her head in apparent frustration after he gave the instruction,” LA Magazine reporter Lauren Conlin wrote. “From my observation, she appeared unconvinced that further deliberations would be productive. The jury has now returned to the deliberation room to continue discussions.”

Judge Sullivan has asked the jury to continue deliberating. The older female juror in the back row whom I’ve been watching shook her head in apparent frustration after he gave the instruction. From my observation, she appeared unconvinced that further deliberations would be…

— Lauren Conlin (@conlin_lauren) September 1, 2026

Clancy is on trial for the murder of her three children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan. She is facing the possibility of life in prison without parole.

Clancy has admitted to killing the young children by strangling them with exercise bands while inside the family’s home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. Her defense team is arguing that she was suffering psychosis and not criminally responsible.

The state has argued that Clancy methodically planned the killings and was criminally responsible for her actions, rejecting the defense’s claim that she was in a psychotic state that left her unable to understand the wrongfulness of what she was doing. The state said in closing arguments that Clancy gave up on trying to get better and decided to kill herself and also decided she was going to take her children with her.

Prosecutors said Clancy made a number of decisions leading up to the murders that show this was planned, like sending her husband Patrick out for two errands and looking up the time it would take for him to retrieve the takeout order. Clancy wasn’t suffering psychosis and was aware of her actions and knew right and wrong, the state argued.