(LifeSiteNews) — The ongoing media frenzy over the Lindsay Clancy murder case has moved on to putting a racial lens over the story, highlighting the skin color of the lone dissenting juror while demanding that non-white child killers get equal consideration.
Clancy evaded conviction last week for the 2023 murder of her three children when a mistrial was declared after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict. That she did it was undisputed, but the defense argued she was not responsible due to “postpartum psychosis,” which allegedly brought her to a point at which she decided to end her children’s lives before attempting to kill herself.
Most of the predominantly female jury was reportedly sympathetic enough to acquit, but one male holdout refused, preserving the possibility of a future trial convicting her. Mirroring the cultural flashpoint the case has become in the court of public opinion, several female jurors have condemned their colleague in interviews, with one giving the unintentionally revealing quote, “he had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.”
On Friday, CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King interviewed juror Paula Devlin, asking her about the demographic composition of the jury. After hearing there was just one “person of color,” she asked, “Is the holdout juror a black man?” Devlin confirmed he was, to which King paused and said, “Well, I have to sit with that for just a second.”
NEW: Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin reveals on ‘CBS Mornings’ that the lone, male holdout juror who voted to find Clancy guilty of murdering her children was the *only* person of color — a black man.
The 11 not-guilty jurors — who hectored him for a week to cave — were all… pic.twitter.com/5qirHNGCyx
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) September 11, 2026
King did not immediately elaborate on why she found the juror’s race stunning, but speculation has abounded on social media. The holdout, who has become the subject of intense scorn from jurors who have spoken out plus “feminist” media figures sympathetic to Clancy. Had he been white, it would have been easier to pigeonhole him into leftist narratives that he was judging her from a place of “privilege.”
Meanwhile, daytime talk giant Oprah Winfrey devoted her Thursday show to “understanding postpartum psychosis,” during which the audience cheered OB/GYN Dr. Kameelah Phillips for declaring, “I want us to have the same passion for people who don’t look like Lindsay, who don’t have the same access,” who lack “her education, her melanin, her privilege.”
“There are women of color sitting around this country in prisons for the same thing we never heard of,” Phillips said. “I just wanna remind us to have the pink shirts and the energy for them as well.”
Room full of women on the Oprah show starts cheering after a doctor says that black female child murderers need to be supported too, not just the white child murderers like Lindsay Clancy.
“I want us to have the same passion for [female child murderers] who don’t look like… pic.twitter.com/VbaQfq9BYi
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 10, 2026
Identity politics wasn’t the only highlight, however. Another woman shared her own story of postpartum depression.
“Before I was hospitalized – I sat in my son’s bedroom and I saw all of their toys as weapons. I played out in my mind me strangling my son,” she said. “And when I saw that play out in real life with Lindsay Clancy, I said, this is a lady who had the exact same intrusive thoughts as me. The reason my story ended differently is because who my husband is.”
Oprah:
You have a lot of courage.Woman:
Before I was hospitalized— I sat in my son’s bedroom and I saw all of their toys as weapons. I played out in my mind me strangling my son.And when I saw that play out in real life with Lindsay Clancy, I said this is a lady who had the… https://t.co/hj2Mwcj2l7 pic.twitter.com/Fk6UJPGwyK
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) September 10, 2026
The implication is that Lindsay’s ex-husband Patrick, who has threatened to sue influencers baselessly insinuating he was involved in their children’s murders, was why his ex-wife’s “story ended” in murder. But Lindsay’s own defense attorney Kevin Reddington has described their marriage as a “very, very happy” one.
The still-unknown holdout juror has not yet come forward to give his side of the story. But one female juror has given a more sympathetic perspective, admitting “big personalities” in the room were “unwilling to see things from the other side,” and were “trying to kind of sway that person from the very beginning.”
Because of the holdout, the principle of double jeopardy did not attach to the trial and Clancy can be prosecuted again. But the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office has not yet confirmed if it plans to attempt a new trial. In the meantime, Clancy is confined to a state mental facility, with her next hearing slated for September 29.