WCVB reported Shawna Gramkow is charged with illegal wiretapping of Christopher Clancy.

The charge is what WCVB reported from a police report and a court docket. Nov. 20 is the arraignment date on that docket. Christopher Clancy's account of an accidental answer and a recording he did not know about is what he told officers. It is not a finding that Gramkow made the recording.

WCVB reported Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, in a story by Phil Tenser published at 12:50 p.m. EDT and modified at 12:52 p.m. EDT, that a Florida woman is charged with illegal wiretapping in connection with a recording of Patrick Clancy's father that was posted on Instagram while jurors were deliberating in Lindsay Clancy's trial. The station's headline calls Christopher Clancy Lindsay Clancy's ex-father-in-law. The body of the story calls him Patrick Clancy's father and calls Lindsay his former daughter-in-law. Ex-father-in-law and father are both the station's descriptions of the same man. A charge is what the story reported. The arraignment it describes has not happened.

WCVB reported that, according to a police report the station obtained, Christopher Clancy went to Scituate Police Department headquarters on Sept. 4, the same day Lindsay Clancy's case ended in a mistrial. It reported the video he showed officers was posted to Instagram on Aug. 30 by an account that was ultimately linked to Shawna Gramkow, 46, of Florida. It reported he told officers he believed he accidentally answered a call from an unknown number while driving, sometime around Aug. 6, and that it was recorded without his knowledge or consent. It reported officers wrote, "He does not recall knowingly speaking to someone over the phone when these comments were made, nor was he made aware of his comments being recorded." The station reported Massachusetts law prohibits recording someone's communications without their knowledge. That is the station's sentence. It does not print a statute number. The story does not print the Instagram account name, the city in Florida, or who placed the call. Aug. 30 is the post. Around Aug. 6 is when he told police he thought he answered. Sept. 4 is when he went to the station.

WCVB reported that a court docket schedules Gramkow to be arraigned in Hingham District Court on Nov. 20. The Oct. 30 story does not print a year on that date. It does not say she has been arrested, and it does not say she has entered a plea. An arraignment date on a docket is a court setting. It is not a conviction.

WCVB's background on the murder case named Lindsay Clancy's three children and printed their ages. This story does not. The station reported she is 36 and was on trial over the summer for the deaths at the family's Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023, that the defense argued she was not criminally responsible because she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, and that the jury was deadlocked, with a reported 11-1 split in favor of acquittal after seven days of deliberations. A reported split is not a verdict. The station reported Christopher Clancy testified in the prosecution's case, that he described Lindsay as "very protective" of her then-husband and children, that he said she was close with his daughter, Patrick Clancy's sister, and that he was aware of his former daughter-in-law's mental health struggles and that his son was concerned about her well-being. The sister is not named here. It reported that before the prosecution finished questioning him he described the call he received from his son after the children were killed, and that he said, "It was terrible." It reported Lindsay Clancy is scheduled to return to court on Monday for a motion hearing, and that District Attorney Tim Cruz's office has not announced whether it will conduct a second prosecution. The story does not print a calendar date on that Monday. Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, makes that Monday Nov. 2. Monday is a setting. It is not a decision to retry the case. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.