CBS's "60 Minutes" is giving Patrick Clancy and his new wife prime-time real estate this Sunday to discuss the mistrial of his ex-wife Lindsay — who strangled their three young children — while the holdout juror who blocked her acquittal says eight panelists behaved like "activists" determined to let her walk from day one.
Three children are dead: 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan, strangled in their Massachusetts home in 2023. A mother did it. And the establishment media's instinct is to package the wreckage for Sunday night ratings rather than interrogate why a jury nearly let a triple child-killer walk free on an insanity defense — or why one man had to stand alone against eleven jurors who had made up their minds before deliberations even began.
Holdout juror Michael P. Desronvil, 48, broke his silence in an interview with Fugitive TV's Ray Marcel after the Sept. 4 mistrial. Desronvil said that from the very first day of deliberations, eight jurors were already locked in on not guilty. "He said that from day one, he said eight of them were going for Lindsay Clancy not guilty. That was on day one. Eight were going not guilty. Two were for guilty. And two didn't know," Marcel recounted. Desronvil described those eight as "activists" who spent every day trying to convince the remaining four to fall in line.
After more than 38 hours of deliberation across a week, the jury of nine women and three men deadlocked three separate times. Judge William Sullivan declared the mistrial. Desronvil held firm: he concluded Lindsay Clancy was guilty, was not insane at the time, and knew exactly what she was doing, according to Breitbart's account of the interview.
The New York Post, meanwhile, focused on Patrick Clancy's upcoming "60 Minutes" appearance alongside his new wife, fertility doctor Rachel Danis — their first joint interview. Patrick divorced Lindsay after the murders, married Danis in 2026, and relocated to New York City. He testified for the defense at trial, telling the court his then-wife spiraled after their third child's birth and sought help from doctors, only to be prescribed more medication. In previews of the CBS segment, Patrick told correspondent Ross Douthat he still speaks to his dead children daily. "I talk to them," he said. "'Help me.' All the time."
The Post framed the interview as a grieving father's coping; Breitbart framed the jury as compromised by activism. What neither outlet pressed is the core question: why does corporate media keep turning criminal tragedy into narrative product? Lindsay Clancy's next hearing is Sept. 29. Three children are still dead. And CBS has a show to air.
