The Lindsay Clancy trial ended without a verdict.

But the story of what happened inside the jury room is becoming almost as disturbing as the case itself.

One juror now says the lone holdout on the 12-person panel wrapped one of the exercise bands connected to the deaths of Clancy’s children around a water bottle during deliberations — apparently attempting to recreate part of the strangulation evidence.

The moment stunned the room.

“I was so shocked,” juror Nick Dargie, 25, told ABC’s Good Morning America. “We’re not here to play detective.”

Dargie said he confronted the holdout directly.

“That’s a band that was used to strangle a child,” he recalled telling him. “That’s disgusting.”

The revelation offers another extraordinary glimpse inside a jury that spent 38 hours deliberating before finally admitting it could not reach a unanimous decision.

Eleven jurors were prepared to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.

One man refused.

That single vote resulted in a mistrial.

Clancy, a Massachusetts mother and former labor and delivery nurse, was charged in connection with the deaths of her three young children — Cora, Dawson and Callan — in the family’s Duxbury home in January 2023.

The central dispute at trial was not whether the children died at Clancy’s hands.

The case instead focused heavily on her mental state and whether severe psychiatric illness, including alleged postpartum psychosis, left her criminally responsible for what happened.

That question split the jury in dramatic fashion.

Dargie said several jurors initially leaned toward finding Clancy criminally responsible.

But as weeks of testimony unfolded, he said the defense experts became more persuasive to him and the prosecution’s case appeared increasingly inconsistent.

By the end, he joined the overwhelming majority supporting a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity.

The holdout did not.

And according to Dargie, the disagreement was not simply about reaching a different conclusion.

He said the holdout appeared disengaged at times during deliberations, sometimes scrolling on his phone while fellow jurors were speaking.

More frustratingly, Dargie claimed the man did not clearly point to evidence or testimony supporting his refusal to change his position.

“There wasn’t a single piece of evidence or witness testimony that he used to prove why he was thinking the way he was,” Dargie said.

Still, he acknowledged something essential about the justice system.

The holdout had the right to disagree.

“There’s nothing wrong with somebody having a completely opposite opinion,” Dargie said.

If one juror remains unconvinced, the result can be a hung jury.

That is exactly what happened.

After seven weeks of testimony and more than a week of deliberations, the panel sent a note to Judge William Sullivan saying they remained hopelessly deadlocked.

A mistrial was declared.

For the 11 jurors who had moved toward the insanity verdict, Dargie described the aftermath with one word:

“Defeated.”

“We spent seven weeks on this trial,” he said. “Almost two months of all our lives dedicated to it.”

The emotional intensity of those deliberations is becoming clearer as more jurors speak publicly.

Another anonymous juror has offered a more sympathetic view of the holdout.

She said he was not necessarily the only person unwilling to reconsider deeply held convictions.

“There were some big personalities in that room,” she told CBS.

Her description suggests a jury divided not just by evidence, but by strongly held interpretations of what criminal responsibility means when severe mental illness enters the equation.

“At the end of the day, there was so much doubt,” she said.

She also criticized the prosecution’s case for lacking a decisive piece of evidence that resolved Clancy’s mental state beyond dispute.

There was, she said, “too much gray area.”

That uncertainty became the defining feature of the trial.

The prosecution argued that Clancy understood what she was doing and should be held legally responsible.

The defense presented experts who argued that serious psychiatric illness profoundly impaired her at the time.

Jurors were left to decide not simply what happened inside the Clancy home, but what was happening inside Lindsay Clancy’s mind.

That distinction is crucial.

A not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity verdict would not mean jurors believed Clancy did not kill her children.

It would mean they concluded that, under Massachusetts law, her mental condition prevented her from being criminally responsible.

Eleven ultimately reached that position.

One did not.

Now, attention is turning toward what happens next.

Clancy remains at Tewksbury Hospital, a state psychiatric facility.

Her case has not disappeared because of the mistrial.

Prosecutors may pursue another trial, while her defense continues to argue that the evidence does not support criminal responsibility.

Her next court hearing is scheduled for September 29.

But whatever comes next, the first trial has left behind a courtroom drama few involved are likely to forget.

Seven weeks of testimony.

Thirty-eight hours of deliberations.

Eleven jurors moving one way.

One man holding firm.

And now, an unsettling image from behind closed doors: an exercise band wrapped around a water bottle as jurors wrestled with the evidence surrounding the deaths of three children.

For Dargie, that moment captured just how emotionally charged the room had become.

The trial may have ended without a verdict.

But inside the jury room, the case was anything but unresolved.