Some conversations don’t stay inside the news cycle. They punch through the floorboards of what people assume reality is made of. I am not trying to wreck anybody for sport. I am trying to tell the truth about a case that has America arguing with itself, and then I am going to take that case all the way down into the older question underneath it: what is evil, how does it work, and what kind of people does a free republic need if it still intends to have law and order?
The case is Lindsay Clancy. The older question is Jonathan Edwards. The connecting image is a spider.
I have been living in the new Jonathan Edwards Study Bible, and I keep running into his spiders.1 That is not a cute curiosity. Edwards looked at a web and saw intelligence. I look at the same geometry, and I see something else as well: a design that catches the living while they are going about their business. That is the argument I want to make. Evil is not only a mood. It is not only a chemical storm in a brain. It is not only a bad lawyer and a weak juror. It is also an architecture. It builds traps. It waits. It uses our own rules against us. And if we do not face that, we will keep getting hung juries in the cases that matter most.
What a Mistrial Actually Means
A mistrial is not an acquittal. It is not a conviction. It is the legal system admitting that this particular jury could not finish the job.
In Massachusetts, Lindsay Clancy still faces first-degree murder charges in the deaths of her three children. The charges did not vanish on Friday, September 4, 2026, when Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial in Plymouth Superior Court.2 Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz now decides whether to retry her before a new jury. The next status hearing is set for September 29, 2026.3 Defense attorney Kevin Reddington has already said he expects prosecutors to try the first-degree murder case again.4 Clancy remains held at a hospital without bail.5
That is the dry definition. The human meaning is harder. Three children are still dead. A mother is still paralyzed from the waist down after jumping from a window. A husband still has to live in the wreckage. And a country is still split between two sentences that cannot both be the last word: she was sick, and she killed them.
The Lindsay Clancy Case the News Cycle Keeps Flattening
On January 24, 2023, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children with exercise bands while her husband, Patrick, was out getting dinner.6 Cora Marie Clancy was five. Dawson William Clancy was three. Callan Patrick Clancy was eight months old.7 Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead that night. Callan died days later.8 Lindsay then tried to kill herself, cutting herself and leaping from a second-story window. The fall left her paralyzed from the waist down.9
She has not denied that the children died by her hand. The trial was never really about the physical act. It was about criminal responsibility. Prosecutors said she acted intentionally, rationally, and swiftly.10 They pointed to planning: sending her husband farther away for takeout so she would have time.11 The defense said she was in the grip of postpartum psychosis, a rare and catastrophic break linked to the hormonal crash, sleeplessness, and psychiatric collapse that can follow childbirth, and that she should be found not criminally responsible.12
The jury of nine women and three men heard weeks of testimony.13 They deliberated about seven days, nearly forty hours.14 They told the judge more than once they were deadlocked. He gave them the extra push judges give hung juries, the Tuey-Rodriguez instruction, sometimes called a dynamite charge, and told them to keep trying.15 It did not work.
According to the defense, the split was 11 to 1 in favor of finding her not criminally responsible. The holdout was described as a man who would not move.16 The foreperson told the court that one juror would not follow the instructions on reasonable doubt. Reddington tried to have that juror removed. The judge refused. Reddington then made an emergency run to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. That failed too.17 The judge would not pick a side inside the disagreement. He declared a mistrial and reset the machine.
That is why people are furious. They are not only angry at a mother. They are angry at a system that can look at three dead children, a confession of the act, a paralyzed defendant, a seven-day deliberation, and still end with no verdict at all.
Why One Holdout Can Stop a Nation
I understand the rage. I have sat in the room where one person refuses to move.
I was the foreman of a grand jury in Butler County, Ohio. Officers had pulled over drivers coming from a house the police already believed was feeding the Hamilton drug market out of Cincinnati. The stop was a traffic infraction. The drivers had not signaled. Inside the car, the officers found a small amount of marijuana. It was not a Hollywood seizure. It was a paper trail. Law enforcement needed a lawful step they could take to a judge so they could get a warrant and go into the house the right way.
Eleven of us were ready to advance the indictment. One woman would not. I knew the shape of her life well enough to see the sympathy sitting in the chair. Family wreckage around drugs. A softness toward marijuana legalization. A story in her head about intrusive government, pretext stops, and police using a little weed to build a bigger case. She heard “setup.” I heard “the only legal door they have.”
I walked the Ohio code. I explained why you cannot just kick the door because you “know” what is in the house. I explained that an indictment on the people coming and going was how you give the next case a spine. It was not enough. Emotions outran the statute.
That is the same tension I see in Plymouth. A jury is supposed to be a cross-section of the community. That is the poetry we tell ourselves. The prose is uglier. Twelve strangers bring their dead marriages, their addicted kids, their distrust of cops, their hatred of cops, their church or their lack of church, their private disasters, and their appetite to be the hero of their own movie. Rules of evidence and jury instructions exist because human beings are not robots. You cannot fully extract the person from the juror.
The flip side is just as true. If you screened out everyone with a history and a strong opinion, you would not have a jury of peers. You would have a room of people who have never been marked by life. That is not a republic. That is a lab.
So the system lives in the mess. It assumes that twelve random people will follow the law and the evidence far enough to reach one sentence together. When that assumption fails, you get O.J. memory. You get this Clancy mistrial. You get a grand jury that will not give police the warrant-path they need to dismantle a dope house. You get a society that wants justice as a feeling and then acts shocked when feelings deadlock the law.
The Dirty Harry Temptation and Why I Will Not Live There
I will say the ugly part out loud, because pretending I never thought it would be a lie.
When I looked at that drug house, my private interpretation of justice was primitive. Go in at night. End it. The people flooding a city with poison are already killing more innocents than a clean raid ever would. That is the Batman version. That is Dirty Harry. We have made a century of movies about that exact hunger because the hunger is real.
I also know what that hunger becomes if you baptize it. It becomes another species of lawlessness. It becomes the thing you claimed you were fighting. I told the prosecutor I could not manufacture the twelfth vote. I did not take a rifle to Hamilton and settle the account myself. I stood inside the process I claim to believe in.
That is the cost of order. Evil knows the cost. It uses our refusal to become death squads. It spreads behind procedure, discovery, sympathy, delay, and the one juror who will not move. If you love law, you have to admit that law can be turned into a web.
I carry guns. I am not a pacifist. I still say this without blinking: righteousness is a better weapon than bullets. I have seen enough to mean it. A bullet ends a body. Righteousness rebuilds a people who can sit in a jury box and tell the truth when it costs them something.
Jonathan Edwards and the Country That Used to Know What Judgment Was
If you want to know why America once had a stronger instinct for law and order, you do not start with the Constitution as if it fell out of the sky in 1787. You start earlier. You start with the moral weather that made a constitutional people even imaginable.
Jonathan Edwards lived from 1703 to 1758.18 He was dead before the Revolution. He was the intellectual voltage of the First Great Awakening. He was a pastor, philosopher, missionary, short-lived president of the College of New Jersey that became Princeton, and the last man a lot of modern people want to read because he will not flatter them.19
On July 8, 1741, in Enfield, Connecticut, he preached “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”20 People still treat that sermon like a Halloween prop. They should read it instead. Edwards did not invent wrath for the sake of theatre. He described a universe in which holiness is real, rebellion is real, and the only reason a man is not already ruined is God’s patience.
America did not come from therapy language. It came from people who thought judgment was as actual as weather. You can hate that. You cannot erase it and then act stunned when juries no longer share a common floor of right and wrong.
That is why I have been promoting the Jonathan Edwards Study Bible. Thomas Nelson released the NKJV edition in 2026, edited by Dr. Matthew Everhard, with Edwards’s own notes, doctrinal essays, his Resolutions, and his way of keeping miscellanies.21 I have burned hours in it. Some days it has felt like the whole day. I love it because it does not give you a decorative Founder. It gives you the mind that helped form the country before the country had a Constitution.
If you want better juries, you need better people. If you want better people, you need a shared story about good and evil that is older and harder than the last viral clip. Two or three generations of daily Scripture and Sunday worship will not manufacture angels. It will raise the odds that eleven people are not held hostage by one person’s private fog.
The Obsession Edwards Had With Spiders
Edwards was not only the fire preacher. As a young man, he was a natural philosopher in Newton’s age. He watched the woods the way a physicist watches an experiment.
As a youth, he wrote the essay “Of Insects.”22 On October 31, 1723, he sent a polished letter, now famous as the spider letter, describing the “flying” spiders of New England.23 He had seen them sail. They let out a thread lighter than air, hang, loosen, and ride the current from tree to tree. He sketched it. He chased them through the forest all day. He wrote that of all insects none was more wonderful than the spider, “especially with respect to their sagacity and admirable way of working.”24
He drew two theological conclusions that still matter.
First, God provides not only for creatures’ necessities but for their pleasure. Edwards thought the spiders looked like they were enjoying themselves.25
Second, the numbers stay. Birds eat them. The sailing itself destroys many of them. And still the kind continues. He saw mathematical providence in that balance.26
That is intelligent design as an eighteenth-century Christian meant it. Nature is not an accident with pretty lighting. Nature is speech. The web is too exact to be a shrug.
Then, almost twenty years later, he picked up the same creature and turned it into the most famous image in American preaching. In Enfield he said:
“The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect, over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked.”27
In the same sermon he pressed the image further: a man’s own righteousness would have “no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider’s web would have to stop a fallen rock.”28
The spider that had been a proof of delight became a proof of exposure. Same man. Same insect. Two sermons in one life: wonder and warning.
I do not think that was a contradiction. I think Edwards saw that the same world can display the mind of God and the peril of the soul. Creation is not a children’s museum. It is beautiful, and it bites.
What I See in the Web That Edwards Did Not Have to Name
Here is where I leave the safe academic reading and say what I actually think.
I look at a spiderweb, and I see intelligence. Edwards was right about that. The geometry is not sloppy. The angles, the tension, the patience, the invisibility until the light hits it just so: that is design. You can stand in late sun and watch filaments that look tacked to the sky. Edwards described that exact sight.29
I also look at a web and see a trap.
The insect is not committing a crime. It is flying. It is doing what it was made to do. Then it hits a structure built to convert motion into food. The spider does not debate. The spider waits. That is predation with architecture.
Ohio people should feel this in their bones. The Hopewell and other mound-building cultures left geometric earthworks through the Scioto and Little Miami valleys, around Chillicothe, and in places like the old works near Milford that settlement later erased or buried under ordinary American life.30 In 2023, UNESCO inscribed eight of those Ohio complexes as the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, the state’s first World Heritage Site: precise circles, squares, and octagons on a scale that still startles engineers.31 Newark’s Octagon encloses about fifty acres and tracks major standstills of the moon across an 18.6-year cycle.32 Those shapes were not doodles. They were alignments. They were attempts to deal with powers the builders believed were real.
I am not saying a Hopewell priest and a garden spider sat on a committee. I am saying human beings keep stumbling into the same patterns: circle, octagon, line, trap, offering, sky.
Indigenous peoples were not stupid. They were reaching for non-human intelligence. So was Israel, except Israel named the source and bound it to law. So was Edwards, except he named the source Holy Spirit and Creator. I am not interested in flattening all of that into “UFO content” for a thumbnail. I am interested in the older, harder claim: some minds are not us. Some of them tell the truth. Some of them hunt.
I have spent a lot of time talking about non-human intelligence. I think people hear “aliens” and stop listening. That is their problem. Scripture already assumed a populated unseen world. Edwards assumed it. The first Americans on this ground assumed it. The modern mistake is to pretend the only actors in a murder trial are a brain, a statute, and a camera.
I think there was evil at work in Duxbury that wanted those children dead. I think evil wanted a mother at a window. I think there is evil that wants a jury to freeze, a lawyer to aim at sympathy instead of truth, a public to lose the ability to say that slaughtering Cora, Dawson, and Callan is a crime even if the killer’s mind was in pieces. Mental illness can be real, and responsibility can still matter. The unseen war does not cancel the courtroom. It explains why the courtroom feels haunted.
Edwards would have called the good side of that pressure the Holy Spirit working through nature and through people, often cryptically. I agree that the Spirit works that way. I also think there is a rival. The rival likes webs. The rival likes procedure without righteousness. The rival likes a geometric perfection that exists to feed.
God made the spider. That sentence is true. It does not obligate me to call every pattern in nature a children’s Sunday-school poster. Some of creation is a sermon about provision. Some of it is a sermon about how easily the living are taken.
Lawyers, Sympathy, and the Forked Tongue
We hire professionals to do what that web does.
A great defense lawyer is paid to find the strand you missed. That is the job. In a decent system, the prosecutor is paid to cut you free with facts. The jury is supposed to be the thing with a spine. When the jury becomes the meal, the whole design fails.
People still talk about Johnny Cochran the way they talk about magic. They remember the glove and forget the dead. I hear the same music around this Clancy trial. The defense needed one heart to crack. In a culture with no common moral language, one heart is not hard to find. You do not even have to trick a fool. You only have to find someone whose life has already trained them to confuse mercy with refusing to judge.
I am not saying postpartum psychosis is fake. I am saying a society that can only speak the language of diagnosis will eventually lose the language of guilt. And a society that can only speak the language of guilt will crush the truly broken. The adult position is both. The children are dead. The mother’s mind may have been on fire. The law still has to answer. A hung jury answers nothing.
There is a reason people do not want to serve. Jury duty is one of the last places America asks a citizen to be an adult in public. Of course, the unserious run from it. I loved being grand jury foreman. It was one of the most rewarding things I have done. I wish more people understood that sitting in judgment of facts is not cruelty. It is how a civilization refuses to become either a mob or a therapy waiting room.
After that one holdout voted against me on the drug case, she voted with me on the next stretch of indictments. Not because I bullied her. Because I gave her a platform, took her seriously, and then held the line. That is what persuasion in a jury room actually looks like. It is slow. It is personal. It is why character in the pool matters more than any trick a high-priced tongue can perform.
The Politics of Heaven and the Age of Disclosure
At the end of all this, I keep coming back to a sentence I cannot shake: you must understand the politics of heaven.
If the only government you believe in is the one with a flag and a courthouse, you will misread every major case. You will think the Clancy trial is only about Massachusetts procedure. You will think a hung jury is only a staffing problem. You will think a spider is only an arthropod.
I think we are living through a disclosure, whether officialdom likes it or not. Not just of craft in the sky. Of the fact that the world is contested. Edwards already knew that. The Bible already knew that. The people who cut those Ohio earthworks knew that in their own vocabulary. The modern West forgot it and called the forgetting sophistication.
Evil wants political charge over human order. It wants the rules of a biblical people without the fear of God. It wants juries that cannot condemn. It wants churches that cannot mention hell. It wants Bibles as décor. It wants Edwards reduced to a spider quote on a tote bag and stripped of the sermon that made grown men hold the pew.
I am not asking the state to become a church. I am asking a people who still claim law and order to remember where their nerves for judgment came from. Church and state can be distinct, and the Bible can still be the book that teaches a citizen how not to be a sucker.
Righteousness Is How You Slay What Bullets Cannot Touch.
If this case wrecked you, I understand. Cora liked princesses and taking care of people. Dawson liked firefighters, trucks, and Paw Patrol. Callan was a happy baby.33 Their father has had to learn how to breathe in a house that no longer contains them. In the days after the killings, he asked the public to forgive his wife, as he had.34 A park in Duxbury now carries the children’s names because the living did not know what else to build.35 Lindsay Clancy will never have an ordinary body again. Some people think that is already a sentence. Other people will not sleep until a prison door closes. Both of those instincts are human. Only one of them can become a verdict, and even that one just failed.
I will not tell you to stop wanting accountability. I will tell you that rage without formation becomes the next web.
Spread the narrative that makes better human beings. Increase Bible literacy like you mean it. Stop being shy. The church-and-state slogan was never a command to raise a nation of morally illiterate people. Read Edwards. Read the sermon. Read the spider letter. Hold both in one head: the God who delights in the sailing thread and the God who will not be mocked.
If you know someone who cannot get there alone, put a Bible in their hands. If the older English feels like a locked door, the Jonathan Edwards Study Bible is one of the best ways I know to walk through it. Edwards is mixed now with the text that made him. You get the philosophy that helped create America sitting next to the Scriptures that helped create Edwards.
That is how you squeeze evil without becoming it. Not by pretending the drug house is a misunderstanding. Not by pretending three strangled children are a policy debate by forming a people who can look at a web and recognize both the mind of God and the appetite of the trap.
The insect that flies into the geometry was not asking for it. The children in Duxbury were not asking for it. A republic that forgets how to judge will keep calling the trap a misunderstanding and the holdout a deep thinker.
I want law. I want order. I want juries that will do their duty. I want a public that knows righteousness is not a mood. And I want us awake enough to see that the fight is older than Massachusetts, older than Butler County, older than the Constitution, and visible even in a thread of silk shining in the sun.
Get the book. Get the Bible. Get your nerve back.
Then show up when they call your name for the jury.
FOOTNOTES
1. The Jonathan Edwards Study Bible: Experience Abiding Joy in Christ, NKJV, ed. Matthew Everhard (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2026).
2. Jacey Fortin, “Lindsay Clancy’s Murder Trial Ended With a Hung Jury. What Now?,” New York Times, September 4, 2026; Associated Press, “Mistrial Is Declared in Lindsay Clancy Child Killings Case After Jury Deadlocks,” September 4, 2026.
3. Travis Andersen, “Judge Declares Mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s Murder Case After Jury Deadlocks,” Boston Globe, September 4–5, 2026. Judge William Sullivan set a status hearing for September 29, 2026, at 2:30 p.m.
4. Fortin, “What Now?” Reddington told reporters he expected the Plymouth County district attorney to retry the first-degree murder charges.
5. CNN, “Lindsay Clancy’s Triple-Murder Case Ended in a Mistrial. What Happens Next?,” September 4, 2026. Clancy was returned to Tewksbury Hospital and held without bail.
6. “Killing of the Clancy Children,” Wikipedia, last modified September 17, 2026; Abby Patkin, “Duxbury Case: 5 Things We Learned from Lindsay Clancy’s Arraignment,” Boston.com, February 7, 2023.
7. Cora Marie Clancy, born December 24, 2017 (some contemporaneous reports give December 4); Dawson William Clancy, born September 30, 2019; Callan Patrick Clancy, born May 26, 2022. See Maia Spoto, “The Clancy Children: A ‘Girly Girl,’ a ‘Paw Patrol’ Fan and a Happy Baby,” New York Times, September 3, 2026.
8. Callan died after being flown to Boston Children’s Hospital. Cora and Dawson were pronounced dead the night of January 24, 2023. Noah R. Bombard, “Duxbury Mother Lindsay Clancy’s Husband Says He Forgives Wife,” MassLive, January 28, 2023.
9. “Killing of the Clancy Children,” Wikipedia; Associated Press, “Mistrial Is Declared.”
10. CNN live coverage, September 4, 2026, summarizing the Commonwealth’s theory that Clancy acted “intentionally, rationally, and swiftly.”
11. Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague’s arraignment timeline, reported in “A Timeline of Events in the Case Against Lindsay Clancy,” Boston Globe, February 8, 2023.
12. Associated Press, “Mistrial Is Declared”; defense theory as argued by Kevin Reddington throughout the 2026 trial.
13. Melina Khan and Christopher Cann, “Lindsay Clancy Case Ends in Mistrial over Hung Jury,” USA Today, September 4, 2026.
14. Fortin, “What Now?”; Khan and Cann, USA Today. Deliberations ran roughly 38 to 40 hours across seven days.
15. NBC Boston, “Lindsay Clancy Trial: What Happens If There’s a Hung Jury and Mistrial?,” September 2, 2026. Judge Sullivan gave the Tuey-Rodriguez charge after jurors reported they were deadlocked.
16. Defense statements after the mistrial; Reddington said the jury “know one man robbed them.” Associated Press, September 4, 2026; CNN, September 4, 2026.
17. CBS Boston, “Lindsay Clancy Murder Case Ends in Mistrial After Her Attorney’s Last-Ditch Attempt to Avoid Jury Deadlock,” September 4, 2026; Andersen, Boston Globe. Associate Justice Dalila Argaez Wendlandt of the Supreme Judicial Court denied the emergency appeal.
18. George M. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003).
19. Edwards served briefly as president of the College of New Jersey in 1758 and died that same year after a smallpox inoculation. Marsden, Jonathan Edwards.
20. Jonathan Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. A Sermon Preached at Enfield, July 8th, 1741 (Boston: S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1741). Modern reading text: Reiner Smolinski, ed., University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Electronic Texts in American Studies.
21. Thomas Nelson, The Jonathan Edwards Study Bible, NKJV, ed. Matthew Everhard (2026).
22. Jonathan Edwards, “Of Insects,” in Scientific and Philosophical Writings, ed. Wallace E. Anderson, The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 6 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980).
23. Jonathan Edwards to Paul Dudley, Windsor, October 31, 1723, manuscript at the New-York Historical Society; printed in WJE 6. See also New-York Historical Society, “Jonathan Edwards and the Flying Spiders.”
24. Edwards, “Of Insects,” WJE 6: “Of all insects, no one is more wonderful than the spider, especially with respect to their sagacity and admirable way of working.”
25. Edwards, spider letter, October 31, 1723, WJE 6. He concluded that the Creator provides “not only for all the necessities, but also for the pleasure and recreation of all sorts of creatures, even the insects.”
26. Ibid. Edwards argued that despite destruction by sailing and by birds, the species does not dwindle, evidence of the Creator’s “nicely and mathematically adjusting their plastic nature.”
27. Edwards, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741).
28. Ibid.: “all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider’s web would have to stop a fallen rock.”
29. Edwards, spider letter, October 31, 1723, describing “vast multitudes of little shining webs and glistening strings” that appeared “tacked to the vault of the heavens.”
30. On the Milford, Ohio, works along the Little Miami, later damaged by settlement and agriculture, see Ephraim G. Squier and Edwin H. Davis, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1848); site reconstructions at earthworks. site, “Milford Earthworks.”
31. UNESCO inscription, September 19, 2023: Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, eight sites in Ohio. National Park Service, “Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks.”
32. Ohio History Connection / hopewellearthworks.org, “Octagon Earthworks,” Newark, Ohio. The octagon encloses approximately 50 acres; alignments correspond to the 18.6-year lunar cycle.
33. Spoto, “The Clancy Children,” New York Times, September 3, 2026, quoting Patrick Clancy’s trial testimony.
34. Patrick Clancy public statement, late January 2023, asking people to “forgive my wife as I have.” Bombard, MassLive, January 28, 2023.
35. WBZ NewsRadio, “Park Opens in Duxbury to Honor Clancy Children,” June 10, 2025. The Heard Foundation, founded by Patrick Clancy, built the playground at Wadsworth Field Park.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Court Case and Contemporary Reporting
Andersen, Travis. “Judge Declares Mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s Murder Case After Jury Deadlocks.” Boston Globe, September 4–5, 2026.
Associated Press. “Mistrial Is Declared in Lindsay Clancy Child Killings Case After Jury Deadlocks.” September 4, 2026.
Bombard, Noah R. “Duxbury Mother Lindsay Clancy’s Husband Says He Forgives Wife, Accused of Killing Their Three Children.” MassLive, January 28, 2023.
Boston Globe. “A Timeline of Events in the Case Against Lindsay Clancy.” February 8, 2023.
CBS Boston. “Lindsay Clancy Murder Case Ends in Mistrial After Her Attorney’s Last-Ditch Attempt to Avoid Jury Deadlock.” September 4, 2026.
CNN. “Judge Declares Mistrial in Lindsay Clancy Case After Jury Deadlock.” September 4, 2026.
CNN. “Lindsay Clancy’s Triple-Murder Case Ended in a Mistrial. What Happens Next?” September 4, 2026.
Fortin, Jacey. “Lindsay Clancy’s Murder Trial Ended With a Hung Jury. What Now?” New York Times, September 4, 2026.
Khan, Melina, and Christopher Cann. “Lindsay Clancy Case Ends in Mistrial over Hung Jury.” USA Today, September 4, 2026.
“Killing of the Clancy Children.” Wikipedia. Last modified September 17, 2026.
NBC Boston. “Lindsay Clancy Trial: What Happens If There’s a Hung Jury and Mistrial?” September 2, 2026.
New York Times live file. “Judge Declares Mistrial in Lindsay Clancy Triple-Murder Case.” September 4–5, 2026.
Patkin, Abby. “Duxbury Case: 5 Things We Learned from Lindsay Clancy’s Arraignment.” Boston.com, February 7, 2023.
Slate. “The Lindsay Clancy Case Has Ended in a Mistrial. What Happens Now?” September 4, 2026.
Spoto, Maia. “The Clancy Children: A ‘Girly Girl,’ a ‘Paw Patrol’ Fan and a Happy Baby.” New York Times, September 3, 2026.
WBZ NewsRadio. “Park Opens in Duxbury to Honor Clancy Children.” June 10, 2025.
Jonathan Edwards: Primary Sources
Edwards, Jonathan. “Of Insects.” In Scientific and Philosophical Writings, edited by Wallace E. Anderson. The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 6. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
Edwards, Jonathan. Letter to Paul Dudley, Windsor, October 31, 1723 (“Spider Letter”). Manuscript, New-York Historical Society. Printed in The Works of Jonathan Edwards, vol. 6.
Edwards, Jonathan. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. A Sermon Preached at Enfield, July 8th, 1741. Boston: S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1741. Modern edition: Reiner Smolinski, ed. Electronic Texts in American Studies. University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
Edwards, Jonathan. The Works of Jonathan Edwards. Vol. 6, Scientific and Philosophical Writings. Edited by Wallace E. Anderson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980.
Jonathan Edwards: Secondary Sources and Study Bible
Everhard, Matthew, ed. The Jonathan Edwards Study Bible: Experience Abiding Joy in Christ. NKJV. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2026.
Marsden, George M. Jonathan Edwards: A Life. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.
New-York Historical Society. “Jonathan Edwards and the Flying Spiders.” September 29, 2015.
Philosophy Now. “Jonathan Edwards on Spiders.” Issue 145.
Thomas Nelson Bibles. “The Jonathan Edwards Study Bible, NKJV.” Product page, 2026.
Yale University, Jonathan Edwards Center. WJE Online, vol. 6.
Ohio Earthworks and Comparative Geometry
City of Milford, Ohio. Public history note on the Route 50 / Greenlawn Cemetery corridor. April 11, 2026.
earthworks. site. “Milford Earthworks.”
Hopewell Earthworks. “Octagon Earthworks.” Newark, Ohio.
“Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks.” Wikipedia.
National Geographic. “Inside the Secret World of the Hopewell Mounds—Our Newest World Heritage Site.” November 19, 2023.
National Park Service. “Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks.” Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.
Ohio State University. “Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, UNESCO World Heritage Site.”
Squier, Ephraim G., and Edwin H. Davis. Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1848.
UNESCO / National Park Service. Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks inscription. September 19, 2023.
Legal Context
Massachusetts General Laws, chapter 265, § 1 (murder).
Massachusetts Tuey-Rodriguez jury instruction on deadlock, as reported in NBC Boston trial coverage, September 2, 2026.
Note: The Butler County grand-jury account is first-person testimony and is not cited to a third-party source.
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