Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children in their Massachusetts home.
Nearly three years later, eight of her jurors wanted to set her free.
One holdout juror is now revealing exactly why he refused to let that happen.
Eight Jurors Wanted Clancy Free Long Before the Mistrial Was Declared
Michael Desronvil, 48, of Bridgewater, sat through weeks of testimony about the deaths of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months old.
He walked out of that jury room convinced their mother knew exactly what she was doing.
Eight of his fellow jurors walked in with a verdict already picked.
Desronvil told Fugitive TV's Ray Marcel that eight jurors leaned toward acquittal from day one, two sided with him on guilt, and two remained undecided.
The panel was nine women and three men, and Desronvil was one of only two who voted guilty on the very first ballot.
He said those eight jurors "felt like they were activists."
Every day, he said, the not-guilty jurors pressed the holdouts to switch sides.
The other guilty juror eventually "caved in at the last moment," Desronvil said, leaving him alone.
Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial on September 4, after 38 hours of deliberation ended in an 11 to 1 deadlock.
This is not the first time a courtroom has faced this exact test.
Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub in Texas in 2001, and it took a second trial before a jury accepted an insanity verdict that sent her to a state hospital instead of a prison cell.
That case needed a reversed conviction and years of appeals before a jury settled on an answer, long after five children were already dead and buried.
The legal question in both cases is the same one Desronvil says he answered with his own eyes: not whether a mother suffered, but whether she understood right from wrong when she acted.
Prosecutors did not have to prove Clancy was healthy.
They had to prove she knew what she was doing.
Desronvil said the evidence in court answered that question for him, even while eight of his fellow jurors were ready to answer it the other way before he ever cast a vote.
The Backlash Against Michael Desronvil Started the Moment His Name Got Out
Desronvil is Black, Republican, and Catholic, and he served on a panel full of jurors who did not share his politics.
Marcel described him as well-spoken and kind, the exact profile a courtroom wants in the box when three children are dead.
He believes that combination is why he is now paying a price for holding his ground.
His name spread online within days of the mistrial.
He has been doxxed.
He says threats have followed him and that people have staked out his home.
Critics have seized on a 2021 assault allegation involving his then-wife.
"I did not lie on the questionnaire," Desronvil said, adding that he disclosed the arrest before he was seated and was never convicted.
He has not appeared on camera, choosing Fugitive TV to tell his side rather than face reporters in person.
His backers see something different: a man who "held his seat" when eleven others wanted to let a mother who killed her own children walk free.
Clancy remains charged with three counts of murder, and prosecutors have not said whether they will put her in front of a jury again.
Clancy is due back in court on September 29 for a hearing.
The Same Moral Math That Excuses Abortion Just Showed Up in a Jury Box
Abby Johnson knows postpartum psychosis firsthand, and she still will not let it erase what happened to three children.
"Mental illness may affect a person's culpability for an act," Johnson wrote. "It does not change the moral nature of the act itself."
Johnson traces the instinct back decades, to the same cultural training that taught Americans to lead every abortion story with the mother instead of the child.
Focus on the Family's Paul Batura made the same connection.
His argument: a culture built on averting its eyes from the child in an abortion clinic was never going to look squarely at these three children either.
Eight jurors in a Massachusetts courtroom proved him right before the trial even ended.
Cora was five.
Dawson was three.
Callan was eight months old.
They did not get a vote in that jury room, and neither did the eight jurors trying to set their mother free.
One man did, and he is the reason a triple child murder did not end in a shrug.
Sources:
- Steven Ertelt, "Holdout Lindsay Clancy Juror Breaks Silence, Says 'Activists' Wanted 'Not Guilty' on Day 1," LifeNews.com, September 16, 2026.
- Ray Marcel, Fugitive TV interview with Michael Desronvil, X, September 2026.
- Paul Batura, "First They Defended Abortion, Now They Defend Lindsay Clancy Killing Her Kids," LifeNews.com, September 1, 2026.
