"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin addressed reporting about her identifying herself as a holdout juror in a gruesome murder case in the 1990s during the show's podcast on Monday, as resurfaced reports from multiple outlets said it was a man who was the holdout juror."Someone on the internet dug up a Daily News article from 1991 that profiled another, different person that was a holdout juror.You were quoted in this article too, but they were talking about a man that other people pointed to as saying this is the reason we couldn't come to a verdict," Brian Teta, the producer of "The View," noted during the "Behind the Table" podcast.Hostin said she remembered him and explained that there were different counts in the case.ATTORNEY FOR LONE HOLDOUT JUROR IN LINDSAY CLANCY MISTRIAL PUSHES BACK ON CLAIMS OF REFUSING THE LAW"So, as I recall, and look it up for yourselves, there were three counts, I believe.
One was second-degree murder, but it was intentional.Then there was the defense to that was, we could consider the insanity defense, meaning that he committed the crime, but he was not criminally responsible because of a mental disease or defect.
And there was a third count, or a third issue that we dealt with, and that issue was the desecration of Monika Beerle's remains," Hostin said.Co-host Sunny Hostin speaks during ABC's "The View" on July 6, 2026.(ABC/TheView)The co-host of "The View" said she felt strongly that he tried to hide the fact that he killed Beerle by dismembering her remains and that he should be found guilty of that count.LINDSAY CLANCY HOLDOUT PRAISED AS 'AMERICAN HERO' BY LAWYER WHO SAYS HE REPRESENTS HIM"He was insane when he killed her," Hostin said.
"And he said that, he confessed that he didn't realize that she was even dead.But then he decides to dismember her.
I just thought that was so clear and gruesome and despicable to do that to someone's remains.I thought that he should be found guilty of that.
And everyone else did too, except for t...