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The Clancy verdict watch

True crime · Heat 1.1 / 10 · 3 shows · 3h 6m airtime

Jury deliberations began September 1, 2026, in the Plymouth County murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, accused of killing her three children on January 24, 2023. The jury has deliberated about 17 hours over three days without a verdict and is not sequestered. Testimony has since added a medical examiner's timeline, phone data showing two stair climbs before logging stopped, a December 2022 warning to Paula Musgrove, and a hospital chaplain's account of commands. The defense points to an MMPI showing no malingering and a commanding male voice; the prosecution's planning case rests on takeout orders and phone searches.

How 3 podcasts covered it

  1. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-08-31 (11:23 to 12:38)
    Reports the third day and the single jury note
    Reports the jury returning for a third day of deliberations after roughly ten hours over Thursday and Friday, and relays defense attorney Kevin Reddington's account of the single note asking to examine pill bottles and the suicide-attempt knife.
    New angle: Jurors sent one note asking to examine prescription pill bottles and the knife from Clancy's suicide attempt.
  2. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-08-31 (12:38 to 15:21)
    Weighs in on sequestration and jury notes
    Legal analyst Phil Holloway weighs in on the Clancy jury: sequestration was within the judge's discretion and probably would have made sense, one note can't be read for direction, and ten hours over a month-long trial is no time at all. Analysis and prediction, no new facts.
  3. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-08-31 (53:45 to 1:44:43)
    Breaks down the Clancy closing arguments
    Breaks down the closing arguments and the jury's request to see the knife and medication, with Holloway and Conlin debating whether the prosecution's shift on the suicide attempt helps or hurts its case.
    New angle: The jury asked to see the knife and two bags of medication; the medication from the drawer was never collected by police and was given to them later by the…
  4. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (0:00 to 1:32)
    Plays the prosecutor's closing in verdict watch
    Opens in verdict watch as the jury deliberates in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, playing the prosecutor's closing argument that the case is about Clancy's mental state on January 24, 2023, not the mental health system.
  5. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (1:32 to 4:26)
    Reports the closing argument coin drop
    Reports from the courtroom on the defense's closing: Reddington slammed three coins on the prosecution's table, which the reporter reads as marking three pieces of evidence she says the state manipulated - Clancy's drinking and a Facebook post about her son Dawson.
  6. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (4:31 to 5:55)
    Notes the pink clothing and unsequestered jury
    Notes the jurors arrived in pink on the morning of deliberations and that the panel is not sequestered, with pink-clad supporters outside the courthouse. Adds the five-week trial length and the three separate verdicts the jury must weigh.
    New angle: Several jurors wore pink on the morning deliberations began; the jury is not sequestered.
  7. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (5:55 to 7:12)
    Plays the closing on planning over psychosis
    Plays audio of prosecutor Sprague's closing, which argues Clancy denied suicidal and homicidal ideation to every doctor and points to her takeout and Apple Maps searches as evidence of planning rather than psychosis.
  8. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (7:14 to 11:55)
    Cross-checks the psychosis claim against the record
    Brings on a psychologist to argue postpartum psychosis can include planning, then cross-checks the record: Clancy gave three practitioners three different drinking stories, and no expert testified she reported hearing the voice before the day of the killings.
  9. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (11:55 to 14:44)
    Debates lithium and postpartum care
    A psychologist argues Clancy should have been hospitalized and given lithium, and that postpartum-psychosis best practices were not followed; Grace counters that the only issue is intent at the time of the act. The segment stays inside the trial's mental-state argument already on the record.
  10. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (14:44 to 16:34)
    Replays the closing and gets a psychologist's pushback
    Replays the prosecution's closing argument about Clancy's inconsistent statements to providers and the help she had at home, then asks a forensic psychologist to react. The three drinking accounts and the late voice report are already on the record; the psychologist's pushback is opinion, not a new fact.
    New angle: One practitioner was told Clancy had not drunk since her pregnancy with Cora five years earlier.
  11. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (16:21 to 18:07)
    Retells the defense case during verdict watch
    Hill and a forensics expert retell the defense's case during verdict watch - the single evil voice heard only in the eighteen minutes after Patrick left, the pill bottles she never finished, the doctors she didn't tell about suicidal thoughts. It stays inside the trial coverage already on the record.
  12. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (18:09 to 19:39)
    Argues one drinking account is a lie
    LaCour retells the three-practitioner drinking discrepancy already on the record - Tufts told multiple drinks a night, another nurse practitioner told no alcohol since Cora's pregnancy - and argues one account is a lie. It stays inside the deltas already filed.
  13. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (19:39 to 23:51)
    Traces the voice to its first mention
    LaCour traces the voice to its first appearance: a phone call to Patrick about a week after the murders, with no medical record of it, and three conflicting versions of what the voice said - the civil complaint's 'last chance' line versus 'kill your kids so you can be free.'
    New angle: The voice is first mentioned in a call to Patrick about a week after the murders; no medical records mention it.
  14. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (23:51 to 28:04)
    Lists the help at home and counters on expertise
    Plays audio of Sprague's closing listing the help Clancy had at home - insurance covering South Shore, Mass General and McLean, 18 weeks of maternity leave, preschool, and a nanny named Elaine - then has Dr. Arutt counter that the gap was expertise in postpartum psychosis, not resources.
    New angle: Clancy had 18 weeks of maternity leave and a nanny, Elaine, three mornings a week.
  15. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-01 (28:04 to 40:11)
    Adds forensic detail on the exercise bands
    Forensics expert Jeff Gentry argues the exercise-band killings and Clancy's self-harm methods point to a spur-of-the-moment act, and questions Patrick Clancy leaving her alone; Grace presses him on the searches she says show intent. Adds forensic detail on the bands.
  16. The Megyn Kelly Show, 2026-09-01 (2:38 to 7:42)
    Reports 17 hours of deliberations without a verdict
    Reports the jury's roughly 17 hours of deliberations over three days without a verdict and its return that morning, then runs a former prosecutor through the mistrial steps, the manslaughter compromise and the pink-clothing reports.
    New angle: The jury deliberated about 17 hours over three days without a verdict and returns September 1 to continue.
  17. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-04 (6:08 to 6:40)
    Restates the intent framing and reads demeanor
    Nancy Grace restates the intent framing - the case is about what Clancy did on January 24, 2023, not the mental health system or the DSM-5 - before a body-language analyst reads Clancy's courtroom demeanor. No new fact about the trial goes on the record.
  18. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-04 (6:36 to 7:00)
    Replays the closings and reads jury faces
    Plays a clip of Prosecutor Sprague's closing argument and reads the jury's faces over it; the substance is the closings already on the record from the first day of deliberations.
  19. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-04 (6:36 to 9:00)
    Adds a detail from the closing arguments
    Adds a courtroom-scene detail from the trial's closing arguments: the testifying investigators sat behind the prosecution, and Reddington pointed at them and told the jury it meant nothing.
  20. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-14 (25:41 to 26:52)
    Relays a prosecutor defending the verdict
    A prosecutor defends the Clancy prosecution, saying the evidence showed she was in control of her actions; Grace and Mack tie it to the jury vote shifting as jurors abandoned their convictions.
  21. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-24 (0:07 to 3:32)
    Rebuts involvement claims with phone and GPS records
    Opens on Patrick Clancy's 60 Minutes interview - Callan dying in his arms - and rebuts online claims that Patrick was involved, citing phone pings, video, car GPS and the dinner pickup time that place him outside the home.
    New angle: Patrick Clancy left CVS, returned at 5:45, and arrived home at 6:09.
  22. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-24 (4:51 to 6:14)
    Reads the 60 Minutes interview against autopsy facts
    Psychoanalyst Bethany Marshall reads Patrick Clancy's 60 Minutes interview against the autopsy facts and finds the account whitewashed: no mention that Callan had ligatures around his neck or that the infant struggled before dying in his arms.
  23. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-24 (7:53 to 9:46)
    Cross-checks the CVS claim against parking lot emails
    Takes up the TikTok claim that CVS footage contradicts Patrick Clancy's account and answers it with courtroom forensics: he was sending work emails from the CVS parking lot during the window in question.
    New angle: Forensic evidence showed Patrick Clancy was sending work emails from the CVS parking lot.
  24. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-24 (11:09 to 12:58)
    Explains why fathers get vilified and flags a civil suit
    Psychoanalyst segment on why fathers get vilified: mothers carry the baby workload, so Patrick Clancy gets thrown under the bus. Adds that a civil suit is coming and that it constrains what Patrick says - for himself and to protect Lindsay's rights.
  25. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-09-24 (16:19 to 17:56)
    Questions the overmedication defense with subclinical levels
    Psychoanalyst Bethany Marshall pushes back on the overmedication defense: the medications in Clancy's system were at subclinical levels, not toxic, and did not drive her to kill. She also says conspiracy theories about Patrick Clancy are a way to avoid the fact that Lindsay Clancy did it.
  26. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-01 (7:26 to 8:28)
    Recaps the timeline attack and chaplain account
    Recaps the defense's timeline attack and the fight over whether Reddington ever said Clancy didn't do it. The forensic temperature and touch-DNA points are argued, not sourced; it stays inside the trial coverage already on the record.
    New angle: Clancy told a hospital chaplain within 24 hours of the killings she had to follow commands or her children would not be safe.
  27. Court Junkie, 2026-10-12 (1:03 to 3:14)
    Adds the autopsy timeline the coverage skipped
    Goes to the autopsy testimony the trial coverage had skipped: the medical examiner's timeline for ligature strangulation, and Clancy sobbing at the defense table as the children's photos went to the jury.
    New angle: A medical examiner testified loss of consciousness can come in 10 to 30 seconds and death in about five minutes.
  28. Court Junkie, 2026-10-12 (6:26 to 21:18)
    Breaks down the phone and health data
    Walks through the phone forensics and Apple Health data: the sociopath search, the October depression note, the January 24 timeline, and the stair climbs at 5:33 and 5:38. The prosecution rests after the health-data testimony.
    New angle: Lindsay Clancy's phone recorded two stair climbs, at 5:33 and 5:38 p.m., and stopped logging data after 5:38.
  29. Court Junkie, 2026-10-12 (24:39 to 40:20)
    Recaps the family witnesses and the December warning
    Walks through the defense's character and mental-state witnesses: a nurse colleague, Clancy's sister, her mother and Patrick's mother. The mother's account puts on the record that Clancy told her in December 2022 she had thoughts of harming the children, and that the family did not act on it.
    New angle: Paula Musgrove testified Clancy told her and Patrick in December 2022 she had thoughts of harming the children.
  30. Court Junkie, 2026-10-12 (40:34 to 55:05)
    Adds the experts who never ordered blood work
    Goes to the defense's expert testimony: a forensic psychiatrist says neither Dr. Tufts nor Nurse Gelata ever ordered blood work or checked Clancy's thyroid, and a second expert describes the window fall and the ligature injuries.
    New angle: Neither Dr. Tufts nor Nurse Gelata ordered blood tests or checked Clancy's thyroid levels.
  31. Court Junkie, 2026-10-12 (55:05 to 1:08:22)
    Puts the defense psychologist on the record
    Puts the defense's forensic psychologist on the record: Dr. Zeisel says the MMPI showed no malingering, that Clancy told him a male voice ordered her to kill her children and herself, and that she sought help at the ER, Women and Infants and McLean.
    New angle: Dr. Zeisel testified the MMPI showed no malingering and that Clancy reported the commanding male voice to him.
  32. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-27 (10:51 to 13:28)
    Questions the 18-minute hallucination claim
    Reads from the civil filing: the pediatrician visit, the snowman, the voice arriving that afternoon, and the map check to time the errand. Dr. Marshall argues the detail and the 18-minute duration make the command hallucinations clinically implausible.
  33. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-27 (13:35 to 15:37)
    Explains how device data places her
    Brings on a certified forensic analyst to explain, in general terms, how phone GPS, watch data and home IoT devices could place Clancy in the house during the searches. It is method, not new evidence, and stays inside the trial record.
  34. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-27 (23:18 to 25:41)
    Explains ligature strangulation mechanics
    Brings on the Dallas County medical examiner to walk through the mechanics of ligature strangulation with elastic bands: the victim must be within arm's length, the airway and vessels are occluded, and death takes seconds to minutes. It is an explainer that stays inside the trial's strangulation testimony.
  35. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, 2026-10-27 (31:32 to 34:12)
    Reads the text exchange into the record
    Reads the January 24, 2023 text exchange between the Clancys from Trooper Ciappini's sworn testimony, then plays Reddington's claim that Clancy was told what happened after her coma. Marshall calls the defense malingering, arguing Clancy asked for a phone on the first hospital visit and immediately described command hallucinations.
    New angle: On the first hospital visit, Clancy asked for a phone and immediately described the command hallucinations.
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