The Lindsay Clancy jury has now sent four notes to the judge after logging roughly 35 hours of deliberations across six days.
The latest note landed Thursday afternoon in Plymouth Superior Court, where Judge William F. Sullivan is overseeing the murder trial. The specific contents were not disclosed publicly. The note pulled Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz, defense attorneys, and Clancy’s parents into the courtroom. Media and observers waited in the hallway as attorneys and the judge held a sidebar conference.
Just before 3:30 p.m. Eastern, Judge Sullivan re-read the jury instructions and reminded jurors they were bound to follow them as originally given. He then sent the panel back to continue deliberating.
According to a report, deliberations that morning had resumed at approximately 9:13 a.m. with no additional instruction to the jury. The panel of nine women and three men broke for lunch around 12:54 p.m., returned at 2 p.m., and sent the note shortly after. The jury has remained deadlocked in recent days, raising the possibility of a mistrial if no agreement is reached.
Clancy, 36, is a former labor and delivery nurse. She has admitted to strangling her three children with exercise bands in the basement of her Duxbury home on January 24, 2023, while her husband was away. The victims were Cora, age 5, Dawson, age 3, and Callan, just 8 months old. After the killings, Clancy slashed her wrists and neck and jumped from a second-story window in an apparent suicide attempt. The fall left her paralyzed from the waist down.
Despite admitting to the acts, Clancy has pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder. Her defense rests on a claim of lack of criminal responsibility, the legal standard commonly referred to as an insanity defense. Attorneys argue she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and other mental health conditions at the time of the killings.
The case has drawn intense public attention since the deaths were first reported. The trial itself has been lengthy and emotionally charged, with the jury now deep into a sixth day of deliberations and no verdict in sight. Whether the panel can reach a unanimous decision or will ultimately deadlock remains the central question as the case moves toward what could be a pivotal conclusion, or a reset.