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Lindsay Clancy Trial: Jury Deliberates Third Day Without Verdict

Jurors continue to weigh charges against a mother accused of killing her three children.

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Lindsay Clancy watches jury members as Judge William Sullivan polls them before they start deliberations during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Monday, Aug. 31, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)

What this story says

  • Jurors deliberated for a third day without reaching a verdict in the trial of Lindsay Clancy.
  • Clancy is accused of strangling her three children, aged five years to eight months, in January 2023.
  • The defense claims Clancy acted due to postpartum psychosis, while prosecutors argue she was depressed and made a conscious choice.
  • The jury can find Clancy guilty of murder or manslaughter, or acquit her if she lacked criminal responsibility.

Who covered it

Left 24%(48)Centre 64%(130)Right 12%(25)

Percentages are shares of the 203 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 53 of the 256 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

60/100

Craft

60/100

Hype

45/100

256 sources · methodology

Missing from the right

Only 25 of the 203 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

A reader who follows the right would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial spent a third day deliberating without reaching a verdict. Clancy is accused of killing her three children in January 2023. The case has drawn attention to maternal mental health after childbirth. The jury began discussing the case on Thursday in Plymouth County Superior Court after hearing testimony over five weeks.

Clancy does not deny strangling her children, but her defense lawyer stated she did so because she had lost touch with reality due to postpartum psychosis. The defense noted that Clancy sought treatment for her mental health in the months before the killings, including a stay in a psychiatric hospital. Prosecutors contend Clancy was aware of her actions, arguing she was depressed, tired of living, and made a deliberate choice to kill them before attempting suicide.

The children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan Clancy, aged five, three, and eight months, were strangled with exercise bands in the basement of the family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The incident occurred on 24 January 2023, before Clancy attempted suicide by cutting herself and jumping from a second-floor window. She remains paralyzed from the waist down. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility. Jurors heard from medical professionals who treated her, as well as friends and relatives, and from medical experts for both the prosecution and defense who disagreed on her state of mind.

Disagreement on Clancy's state of mind

The defense claims Lindsay Clancy acted due to postpartum psychosis, a mental illness that can follow childbirth. Associated Press reported that Clancy's lawyer said she had lost her grip on reality. Prosecutors argued that Clancy was depressed and tired of living, and made a conscious choice to kill her children, according to Associated Press. The jury can find Clancy guilty of murder or manslaughter, or acquit her if she lacked criminal responsibility, Associated Press stated.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated digests mention the specific details of the defense's claim that Clancy acted due to postpartum psychosis or that she had sought treatment for her mental health. The right-rated digests also do not mention the prosecution's argument that Clancy was depressed and made a conscious choice to kill her children.

Tags:#LindsayClancy#Trial#PostpartumPsychosis#MaternalMentalHealth#Crime

Coverage settled. We checked this 10 times and stopped on 5 Sept 2026, 21:45. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

48 rated outlets

  • The Associated Press, The Sun Chronicle, WSVN, The Daily Star, SooLeader.com, and NBC Boston reported that jurors spent a third day deliberating without reaching a verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial. The Sun Chronicle, WSVN, The Daily Star, and SooLeader.com used digests that attributed this information to the Associated Press.
  • The Associated Press reported that Clancy's defense argued she lost touch with reality due to postpartum psychosis, while prosecutors contended she was depressed and made a conscious choice to kill her children. The AP report stated that Clancy does not deny strangling the children.
  • The Associated Press detailed that the jury could find Clancy guilty of murder or manslaughter, or acquit her if she lacked criminal responsibility. The report also noted that Clancy attempted suicide after the killings and remains paralyzed. The Hamilton Spectator, The Seattle Times, and St Catharines Standard mentioned the jury was set to deliberate for a fourth day.

Centre

130 rated outlets

  • All twelve centre‑rated outlets reported that jurors spent a third day deliberating on Monday without reaching a verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial. They identified the defendant as a former labour and delivery nurse charged with killing her three children in 2023, and placed the proceedings in Plymouth County Superior Court, Massachusetts.
  • Only the Killeen Daily Herald full report added that jurors began deliberations on Thursday after hearing testimony from more than 70 prosecution witnesses and ten defence witnesses over a five‑week period. The Cape Cod Times digest highlighted a live‑stream option for the third day, and NewsChannel 8 noted that twelve jurors and six alternates returned to court.
  • None of the remaining digests mentioned the witness counts, the five‑week testimony timeline, the juror‑alternate composition, or the live‑stream provision; those details appear only in the Killeen Daily Herald report, the Cape Cod Times digest, and the NewsChannel 8 digest. All centre outlets omitted any reference to sentencing prospects or cost estimates.

Right

25 rated outlets

  • The right-rated reports from Dagens Nyheter and The Post Millennial highlighted that the jury had deliberated for three days without reaching a verdict in the Lindsay Clancy trial. Dagens Nyheter framed the story with the question 'Monster or Victim?' and stated that Clancy strangled her three children and attempted suicide in January 2023. The Post Millennial's headline stated 'BREAKING: Lindsay Clancy jury ends day 3 of deliberations with NO VERDICT in murder trial'.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Lindsay Clancy Trial: Jury Deliberates Third Day Without Verdict?
Of the 203 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 24% are rated left, 64% are rated centre, 12% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 256. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Lindsay Clancy Trial: Jury Deliberates Third Day Without Verdict left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 203 rated outlets on this story, 24% are rated left, 64% are rated centre, 12% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Lindsay Clancy Trial: Jury Deliberates Third Day Without Verdict biased?
Lindsay Clancy Trial: Jury Deliberates Third Day Without Verdict is one event reported by 256 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Lindsay Clancy Trial: Jury Deliberates Third Day Without Verdict?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Lindsay Clancy Trial: Jury Deliberates Third Day Without Verdict?
256 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What is Lindsay Clancy accused of?
Lindsay Clancy is accused of strangling her three children, aged five years, three years, and eight months, in January 2023. The incident took place in the basement of her family's home in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
What are the defense and prosecution arguing in the trial?
Clancy's defense claims she acted due to postpartum psychosis, a mental illness that can affect mothers after childbirth, and that she had lost touch with reality. Prosecutors argue that Clancy was depressed, tired of living, and made a conscious decision to kill her children before attempting suicide.
What are the possible outcomes for Lindsay Clancy?
The jury can find Clancy guilty of murder or the lesser charge of manslaughter. Alternatively, they can acquit her if they find she lacked criminal responsibility due to psychiatric problems. Sentencing could range from life in prison to release or confinement in a mental health facility.

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