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WHITMAN, Mass. — A juror who has spoken publicly after the Lindsay Clancy murder trial is rejecting claims that she was biased, while saying the case created an opportunity to draw attention to women’s mental health and postpartum illnesses.
“We didn’t know what was happening outside that room, but we knew we had an opportunity to start a conversation that could change something — that could maybe prevent this from ever happening again,” Paula Devlin, 65, told News Media. “I think that’s one reason we feel — or I feel — so strongly about it. I hope no other woman or husband ever has to go through this.”
Devlin made similar remarks over the weekend, prompting accusations that jurors entered the case with an agenda. She disputed those allegations Monday.
Paula Devlin speaks with a reporter in Whitman, Massachusetts, Monday, Sept. 13, 2026. Devlin was a juror in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for News Media)
“We looked at the evidence, and there were holes in the prosecution’s case,” she said. “The biggest part of the entire case was mental health. How can you call that bias when only women can experience postpartum depression? Only women can experience postpartum psychosis. Only women can give birth. That isn’t bias. It’s simply a fact.”
Devlin said Clancy, a 36-year-old former delivery room nurse, repeatedly sought help but did not receive the care she needed.
In January 2023, Clancy strangled her three children — 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan — with exercise bands before attempting to take her own life. She survived a fall from a second-story window but was left paralyzed.
Callan, left, Dawson and Cora Clancy. The three children were killed at their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home in January 2023. (Lindsay Marie Clancy/Facebook)
“I truly, truly believe in my heart that if Lindsay had received the help she truly needed, those three children would still be here,” Devlin said. “Those five people would still be a family.”
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Lindsay Clancy, charged with the murder of her three children in Duxbury in 2023, appears in Plymouth Superior Court on Friday, Feb. 20, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
A key flaw in the prosecution’s case, she said, was that they had no witnesses who would say anything bad about Clancy.
“Nobody could find one bad thing to say about this person, and I would bet my house that those prosecutors looked everywhere to find somebody to be derogatory and say derogatory things about Lindsay,” she said. “And nobody could.”
On January 24, 2023, Clancy fatally strangled her three children in the basement of their Duxbury, Massachusetts, home using exercise resistance bands. She then cut her wrists and neck and jumped from a second-story window in a suicide attempt, leaving her partially paralyzed. (Greg Derr/Pool/The Patriot Ledger)
That includes her ex-husband and the victims’ father, Patrick Clancy, Devlin added.
Still, she said, she’s haunted by the children’s faces.
“Those three little faces and just wondering if we missed something, if we didn’t ask the right questions of each other, if we could have done better — it’s hard not to feel like we failed,” she said. “I mean everybody says we didn’t fail, but it’s hard to not feel that when you’re given a task and you don’t accomplish it.”