The sole juror who voted to convict Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy in the strangulation deaths of her three children said in his first televised interview that he relied on “a lot of evidence” when he refused to join the 11 other jurors who found her not criminally responsible.
“There were moments as we were deliberating,” Michael Desronvil told Fox News anchor Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday. He declined to discuss the details, leaving the next phase of Clancy’s case uncertain.
Desronvil was the only member of the 12-person jury to vote for a conviction. The other 11 jurors concluded that Clancy was not criminally responsible because of a mental disease or defect.
Kevin Reddington, defense attorney for Lindsay Clancy, and Lindsay Clancy look on as Judge William Sullivan (out of frame) instructs the jury to continue deliberating, during Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial at the Plymouth County Superior Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on September 4, 2026. (Greg Derr / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)
Desronvil has previously said the attention should remain on Clancy’s children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — rather than on him. Clancy strangled each child with exercise bands.
Following the mistrial on Sept. 4, several jurors said in interviews that Desronvil appeared determined to convict Clancy despite having his own reasonable doubts about the prosecution’s case.
Michael P. Desronvil, the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, which ended in a mistrial. (Fugitive TV)
Desronvil has rejected those accusations and repeated that denial during Wednesday’s interview.
“I had a lot of evidence to back up my claim,” he said. “But because out of respect of the other jurors in the court system, I will put that to sleep for now until, you know, they go through the process.”
Heather O’Connor, Lawyer for Michael Desronvil, addresses the media outside of Plymouth Superior Court, Plymouth, Mass., Thursday, September, 29, 2026. A special retrial hearing was held today for Lindsay Clancy who is accused of the murder of her three children in 2023. (David McGlynn for News Media)
Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, has requested an investigation into the holdout juror, whom he described as an “obstructionist.”
Reddington asked Judge William Sullivan to preserve records involving all 12 jurors and six alternates. The requested materials include juror questionnaires, surveillance footage from the courthouse hallway outside the deliberation room and cellphone sign-in sheets.
Judge William Sullivan indicates he was going to declare a mistrial before changing course and giving Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney one hour to appeal as the jurors in the case indicated they were unable to reach a verdict on Friday, Sept. 4, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
The defense is also seeking the holdout juror’s questionnaire, any supplemental filings, probation records and “Juror Doe’s record from the statewide domestic violence registry.” Reddington wants the judge to order prosecutors to disclose whether they had contact with the juror as a defendant, complainant or subject in any matter dating to January 2021.
He has additionally requested Desronvil’s phone records from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on each day of jury deliberations.
Callan, left, Dawson and Cora Clancy. The three children were killed at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. (Lindsay Marie Clancy/Facebook)
A hearing on the defense motion for an inquiry was postponed after Desronvil hired a Massachusetts attorney.
The judge declared a mistrial in Clancy’s case on Sept. 4 after the jury failed to reach a unanimous decision.
Prosecutors argued that Clancy acted deliberately and understood that strangling her children one at a time with exercise bands was wrong. Her defense maintained that she was experiencing postpartum psychosis, had repeatedly sought help without receiving it and was therefore not criminally responsible for the deaths.