A juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial has offered a rare look inside the tense deliberation room, saying the lone panelist who blocked an acquittal spent much of the discussions admonishing others about “respect” while repeatedly zeroing in on the blood found in the bedroom where Clancy killed her three young children.

Speaking to the Daily Mail, Paula Devlin, 65, said the 11 jurors who were prepared to find the former nurse not guilty of murder or manslaughter were left feeling a mix of “defeat” and “anger” after the judge declared a mistrial because one male juror refused to join them.

Devlin, a government contractor, said the unidentified holdout juror struggled to explain the reasoning behind his vote when challenged by the rest of the panel, describing his arguments as making “no sense.” She added that he remained mostly quiet through the week of jury deliberations.

According to Devlin, the married juror also kept largely to himself during the trial, seldom socializing with the other jurors and instead spending breaks talking with his wife or watching videos on his phone.

Once deliberations began, Devlin said, the holdout seemed more intent on monitoring the tone of the room than clearly laying out why he believed Clancy was guilty, creating mounting frustration among the other jurors in the high-profile Lindsay Clancy case.

‘The main thing he focused on is sometimes we would all want to talk at once, and that was very upsetting to him.

‘He would get upset and say, ”Listen to what she’s saying, listen to what he’s saying, be respectful”.’

‘We were trying to say to him, that sometimes somebody says something and they get lost in their thought or they can’t find the right word, and somebody else puts that word in there for them or finishes their thought, that’s how normal conversation works.

‘But when that would happen, he would get upset and just take all this time lecturing us about not being respectful.’

But she said the holdout was less forthcoming about his refusal to acquit Clancy.

‘We asked the lone juror, what are the things that are making you think that she’s guilty, and we asked him, and he didn’t want to write on the board.

‘He didn’t say a word, and so one of the jurors jumped up and said, ‘I’ll write for you,’ and then he said the things that he said, and then we talked about each one of those things.’

Devlin revealed one of the man’s concerns centered on the amount of blood found in the bedroom of the Clancys’ upmarket home in the suburb of Duxbury, Boston, shortly after Lindsay used exercise bands to kill her three children – Cora, five; Dawson, three; and Callan, eight months.

On January 24, 2023, Clancy’s now ex-husband Patrick, 36, a software sales employee for Microsoft, had gone out at her request to pick up their kids’ medicine and takeout for the family.

He returned less than an hour later at around 6pm and went upstairs to find his wife.

But when he got upstairs, he found their second-floor bedroom door locked.

After forcing his way in, he discovered blood on the floor, a bloody knife on the nightstand and a wide-open window.

He ran downstairs to find Clancy on the ground outside, with her wrists and neck cut. She told him she’d tried to kill herself and revealed that their children were in the basement.

Her suicide attempt failed but left Clancy paralyzed and permanently confined to a wheelchair.

‘He [the holdout juror] thought there was too much blood in the bedroom,’ revealed Devlin.

‘We had lots of testimony around the blood. We had a blood expert that was very compelling and she was really good at how she described it to us.

‘He said that he thought there was too much blood for the wounds that she had.

‘We all asked him what he meant by that, because we heard experts talk about the blood spatter and explain to us how it all was what it was supposed to be.’

But when quizzed by his fellow jurors, the lone holdout refused to elaborate or reveal how it linked to why he wouldn’t acquit the former labor and delivery nurse, Devlin said.

‘I feel that he didn’t make any sense. I feel like if he could have pointed to one specific thing to show us, to back up what he was thinking or why he was thinking it, then all of us would have a different feeling.

‘We never would have sent the information to the judge that we did, because that’s part of the process. It’s okay to disagree.’

But she insisted: ‘I absolutely believe he [the holdout] did not follow the law when it came to reasonable doubt.

‘If you say you have doubt, then you have to follow the law. And if you don’t follow the law, that’s not right.

‘Can I say whether he understood that or not? I don’t know, because we didn’t have him explain it back to us.’

Jurors spent more than 37 hours deliberating five-and-a-half weeks of highly complex and distressing evidence.

But judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial at Plymouth Superior Court last Friday afternoon after the holdout refused to side with the other 11 twice, late Thursday and early Friday.

Devlin added: ‘I don’t want to bash anybody, even that person.

‘They did whatever they did for their reasons, and we will never know, and we will never understand.

‘That’s what hurts so much.’

Devlin told of the tense moments in the jury room during the trial, which would hit a crescendo during deliberations.

‘There were days when we were absolutely quiet, where nobody said a word, because we had a lot of emotion in that room, and we had to say out loud that we needed to give ourselves a timeout.

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‘Most everybody got along really well the majority of the time.’

She said during the more heated discussions, ‘there was a lot of emotion and a lot of opinions’.

‘One of the jurors did an interview and said there were strong personalities. I think I was one of those strong personalities.

‘I think we got loud sometimes because we all were trying to get our point across before we settled in during deliberations.’

She revealed the most hotly debated pieces of evidence amongst the jurors were Patrick Clancy’s harrowing 911 call, the evidence over how his wife went out their bedroom window and the medications she was on.

‘I will never forget the sounds that Patrick made when he found his children’, added Devlin.

Devlin, a mother herself, said watching Lindsay Clancy during the trial, she was struck by how many people loved her and how deeply she loved her children.

‘I think we all expected the prosecution to bring people onto the stand that were gonna say negative things about her and they never did.

‘I don’t think I’ll ever forget the tone in the prosecutor’s voice talking to Patrick, trying not to be too forceful because that was her witness, but trying to coax him into saying something negative about Lindsay, and he would not do it.

‘He just would not do it, and that really sits with me now.’

She recalls there was ‘something about Lindsay that makes you really want to like her’.

‘We could see a different view than all of you could, so there were times where she was crying, and there were times where she was being affected by evidence, testimony, the same as we were.’

She noticed how during the trial, Clancy tried to keep a ‘stoic face’ and avoid eye contact with the jury and others in the courtroom.

But Devlin said she would never forget Clancy’s utter devastation on hearing the coroner’s testimony about the autopsies on her children’s tiny bodies.

‘Will I ever forget the sobs that came out of Lindsay just hearing someone talk about the autopsy and the things that they had to do and the things that they found?

‘No, but I couldn’t let that be the control of what I was doing in that room,’ added Devlin.

‘The judge instructed us that we’re supposed to keep emotion separate, and we did.

‘We kept trying. You know, as a human being, you can do the best that you can.’

Devlin said she had no idea of the immense national and international interest in the case during the trial.

But she said the jurors ‘did feel the weight of what we were doing’.

‘We knew that this was a topic that needed more discussion, and we knew that whatever it was that we decided would perpetuate that somehow, or we hoped that the focus would be on making it so that this could never happen again.

‘That when somebody asks for help so many times, when somebody says twice they called a suicide hotline and told them that they want to take their life, that just because they don’t have the exact plan of how they want to do it shouldn’t be a reason not to be taken seriously.’

Asked how the group felt when they realized they weren’t going to reach a unanimous verdict, she said many of the group were heartbroken and felt like they had failed.

‘We felt defeated, and I can’t lie, there was definitely anger.’

Since going public, fellow jurors and their families and friends have been threatened and targeted by cruel online trolls, Devlin said.

The husband of one juror told the Daily Mail his wife had received death threats after she gave a TV interview.

Devlin added: ‘We didn’t know what was happening on social media or any of those things.

‘I know that within our group, there’s a TikTok video of three of us [jurors] dancing with Kevin Reddington-that’s all AI.

‘But then somebody posted something they found that is a picture of the three of us in the the scariest ugly faces.

‘There’s a lot of negativity about things and people take things out of context.’

Clancy has admitted to strangling her children with exercise bands but denies it was murder.

The former nurse said she was overmedicated while suffering from postpartum depression and that the cocktail of drugs she was prescribed brought on psychosis.

Asked for her reaction to the news Clancy’s defense attorney Kevin Reddington has filed a motion asking a judge to dismiss the case, Devlin replied: ‘We never wanted a dismissal. We never wanted her to be found not guilty.

‘We wanted her to be found not guilty by reason of mental illness.

‘Everybody wants justice for the Clancy children. They deserve justice.’

Little Cora, Dawson and Callan now lie together in St Mary’s Cemetery, Scituate, in Plymouth, with a black marble gravestone emblazoned with their names and tiny handprints marking their final resting place.

That justice, according to Devlin, is Clancy ‘getting the help that she needs’ and ‘more people understanding what postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis is and what a misdiagnosis of a mental illness does to a person, a family, a community, and right now, a nation.

‘Look at how divided this is.’

Independent senator Jacqui Lambie has issued a blunt warning to Pauline Hanson, telling the One Nation leader to “leave veterans alone” after a video shared by the party branded Liberal frontbencher and former SAS soldier Andrew Hastie a traitor.

Lambie, who also served in the military, said the attack — delivered through a satirical cartoon posted to Hanson’s social media — amounted to a serious smear not only against Hastie but against veterans around Australia.

The political clash has its roots in Hastie’s evidence during the high-profile defamation case involving accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith, a former SAS colleague of Hastie’s.

Speaking on Thursday, Lambie accused Hanson of lacking courage and demanded she apologise to Hastie, saying the One Nation senator should “show some bloody courage” and take responsibility for the post.

“I’m on to you now,” Lambie told News24, staring directly into the camera as she delivered the warning.

‘I warned you years ago to leave my bloody veterans alone. Well, now you’ve got Lambie, and I’m absolutely fuming. That woman is disgusting.’

Lambie also called the One Nation leader a ’10-second grub of rubbish’.

‘She has never achieved one bloody thing up here. What have you actually done up here? Have you actually got anything through Parliament and been able to achieve anything with it?

‘She has no idea of patriotism. You don’t attack veterans, and you don’t stand like a coward behind your goddam cartoons,’ she said.

‘How they are allowed to go out over social media is beyond me because they incite hatred. They are vile. They are disgusting.

‘Show some bloody courage and apologise to that veteran, Andrew Hastie, right now. I tell you what, these men from the Special Air Service made the SAS. Only the best of the best get in there, and, by God, they’ve got to be the toughest. And the country asks them to do so much more than anybody else can imagine.’

Lambie’s comments come after politicians of all stripes closed ranks around Hastie this week.

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Opposition Leader Angus Taylor was the most prominent figure to spring to Hastie’s defence on Thursday, touting his colleague’s military record and again demanding the One Nation leader remove the video.

‘Andrew Hastie has served this country with distinction as an officer in the SAS. She should take it down,’ Taylor said.

Later, during a speech before Question Time commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, the Liberal leader again alluded to Hastie’s service during the global War on Terror.

‘I take this opportunity to acknowledge all our warfighters who served … in that necessary and noble cause over many years, patriots like the member for Canning (Hastie),’ he said.

An unlikely coalition of politicians, including staunch adversaries, has also stepped up to defend the conservative Liberal frontbencher.

‘I think how Pauline Hanson has treated Andrew Hastie is appalling,’ Labor minister Madeleine King told News24 on Thursday, echoing calls for the senator to take down the video.

The attack on a decorated member of the Australian Defence Force was ‘despicable’, she said.

King condemned the One Nation leader for backing away from the traitor label on Wednesday, when she said the cartoon was satire and accused Hastie of ‘making a mountain out of a molehill’.

‘She’s just got this habit of gaslighting … What she is doing is accusing someone of one of the most serious things you possibly can,’ she said.

Greens senator David Shoebridge, who declared he would ‘go out and fight Hastie on pretty much every one of his political opinions’, also delivered an impassioned rebuke of Hanson.

‘I can’t work out how any political party can stand by an attack on somebody because they go into court and tell the truth as they understand it,’ he told News24.

‘It’s actually pretty f***ing disgraceful.’

The spat comes as the Coalition seeks to neutralise a surge in support for Hanson’s populist party, which has captured a significant share of the right-wing vote, particularly in regional and rural Australia.

The WA state seat of Secret Harbour, which sits within Hastie’s federal electorate, was the latest seat to flip to One Nation at an August by-election, as the anti-immigration party targets Coalition-held electorates.

A woman who attended Catholic school with Corie Walsh says she is stunned by the devastating allegations now facing the Illinois mother.

Walsh, 40, has been accused of killing her 2-year-old son, Barrett “Bear” Walsh, after prosecutors said the toddler was discovered hanging from a basement rafter at the family’s suburban Chicago home on September 1.

Yet someone who knew Walsh during her teenage years described a person far removed from the woman now at the center of the deeply troubling case.

The former classmate told TMZ that Walsh was remembered at their small Catholic high school as “beautiful, kind, intelligent, talented and giving.”

She said Walsh moved comfortably among different circles of classmates and was actively involved in campus life, taking part in the poms team, Helping Hands club, senior Powderpuff games and liturgy during Mass.

Although the pair have not been in contact since their school days, the woman said every interaction she remembers having with Walsh was positive.

That has made the allegations surrounding the death of her young son even harder for her to comprehend.

‘Never in a million years could I have imagined something so tragic,’ she told TMZ.

Walsh faces three counts of first-degree murder over the toddler’s death and has not yet entered a plea. 

The former friend was particularly stunned by prosecutors’ allegation that Walsh later told investigators she killed Bear because she believed the toddler was the ‘devil’ and the ‘Antichrist.’

Asked whether she had ever witnessed signs of that kind of extreme religious thinking when they were teenagers, she answered emphatically: ‘Not at all.’

Walsh and her classmates did regularly attend Mass the woman explained, but largely because they were pupils at a Catholic school.

‘None of us were church freaks,’ she said.

While Walsh participated in religious activities at school, her former classmate said she never regarded her as someone who was consumed by religion or lived in fear of God.

The friend stressed that she had not spoken to Walsh since high school and would not speculate about how she may have changed in the years since.

Instead, she said her heart breaks for everyone caught up in the tragedy, ‘most especially for the loss of an innocent little boy.’

Her recollections emerged just days after Walsh appeared in court for the first time as her family was laying Bear to rest.

Prosecutors allege a neighbor discovered Bear hanging from a rafter in the basement and lowered him to the floor before desperately attempting CPR.

Court documents state the two-year-old was cold and had no pulse. He was later pronounced dead, with his cause of death listed as ‘asphyxia due to ligature compression of the neck.’

The same neighbor allegedly discovered Walsh upstairs, lying fully clothed in a bathtub surrounded by bloody water after she had harmed herself with a knife.

Walsh was taken to hospital and allegedly admitted killing her son, according to authorities.

Her husband, Michael Walsh, was out of state at the time.

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An infant was found unharmed at the home, while two school-aged children returned to the property as the emergency unfolded, according to court filings.

The horrifying case has attracted further attention because of Walsh’s alleged fascination with the murder trial of Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy.

Prosecutors say Walsh was ‘actively discussing’ the Clancy case in a group text with friends just hours before Bear’s death.

Clancy admitted killing her three young children in January 2023 but pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, with her defense arguing she suffered from postpartum psychosis and was overmedicated. 

Her trial ended in a mistrial last week after jurors failed to reach a verdict.

Authorities have not established that the Clancy case caused or directly influenced Bear’s death.

Walsh’s defense has fiercely rejected suggestions that she was a Clancy ‘copycat.’

Her attorney Andrea Lyon said Walsh was suffering from a ‘psychotic episode’ when her son died.

‘This is a tragedy for the Walsh family, all of whom are mourning the loss of this child,’ Lyon said.

‘It is also a tragedy in that Corie herself was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened.

‘It is our hope that through a thorough presentation and investigation of the facts, that all of us will come to see this heartbreak for what it is.’

Lyon later described speculation that Walsh copied Clancy as ‘sickening.’

‘That speculation that this has anything to do with that, that it’s a copycat or anything like that, is baseless and cruel,’ she said outside court Tuesday.

Prosecutors, however, revealed another alarming allegation during Walsh’s detention hearing, claiming she had also contemplated poisoning her husband.

‘She was going to poison him with a drink,’ a prosecutor told the court. ‘She had a drink and a number of prescription bottles on the table.’

The defense disputed the prosecution’s characterization of Walsh’s discussions about Clancy, saying the group chat had circulated unfounded conspiracy theories about Clancy’s husband, Patrick.

On the day Bear died, Walsh allegedly appeared to have changed her view of that case, sending her friends an anguished message: ‘It’s manslaughter. Please help. I’m really freaking out.’

Walsh’s family nevertheless continues to stand behind her.

Her husband and mother missed Tuesday’s detention hearing because they were attending Bear’s funeral, defense attorney Robert Kerr told the court.

Kerr said they were ‘heartbroken’ they could not attend and wanted the judge to know they had ‘unwavering support for her.’

The defense sought to have Walsh released into her mother’s care so she could undergo psychiatric treatment, but Judge Amy Bertani ordered her held in jail.

‘I can’t make this decision out of compassion or empathy,’ Bertani said.

The judge found there was ‘clear and convincing evidence’ connecting Walsh to a first-degree murder offense and ruled that she posed a ‘clear and present threat to her husband and other children.’

Walsh’s next court appearance is scheduled for September 24.