A GoFundMe fundraiser for the parents of Lindsay Clancy, a former mother charged with murdering her three children, raised over $850,000 in under one week to support their daughter.
The fundraiser is called “The Musgrove Family Fund” and lists the beneficiaries as Mike and Paula Musgrove to make their support of their daughter easier, but the comments attached to donations almost unanimously understand it as a support fund for Lindsay Clancy. The fundraiser itself notes that it was established with the parents’ explicit knowledge and consent and that Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, is “aware of it,” implying the parents are at least partially paying for Clancy’s legal defense costs in the high-profile case.
The fundraiser aims to raise $2 million and is nearly halfway there through 26,000 donations.
The hundreds of comments attached to donations were nearly all addressed to Clancy personally. They included people saying it was actually her husband who murdered the children, though neither Clancy nor her lawyers are arguing as much. Others declare themselves members of “#lindsaysarmy,” while many extolled what a good mother she was.
“You were a warm, comforting, beautiful mom and your babies adored you!” one commenter said.
Another commenter described Clancy as a “true hero,” while many others found her situation relatable and blamed the children’s murder on others.
“We are rallying around Lindsay because in so many ways, she is us,” a comment reads.
On Jan. 24, 2023, Clancy asked her husband to go pick up takeout dinner for the family at a restaurant they didn’t normally go to, and to stop by the pharmacy on the way. While he was running the errand, Clancy took their three children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, into the basement and strangled them to death with exercise bands. She then cut her own wrists and throat and threw herself out of a second-story window, paralyzing her from the waist down.
In a phone call with her husband the next month, Clancy claimed she heard a voice telling her to murder their children and kill herself. Her mother had testified on Monday that Clancy had divulged to her as early as October 2022 that she was having “thoughts of harming the children.”
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Clancy had searched the restaurant she sent her husband to on Apple Maps just before asking her husband to go, something prosecutors allege shows premeditation, calculating whether the trip would buy her enough time to murder the children.
Clancy’s defense attorneys don’t dispute that she murdered her children, but claim she shouldn’t be held criminally responsible due to reasons of mental illness. She faces up to life in prison if found guilty, and if found not guilty by reasons of insanity, she will be put in a state mental health institution.