PLYMOUTH, Mass. (Court TV) — More than 1,000 miles away from the courtroom where Lindsay Clancy is standing trial on charges she murdered her children, a stranger is rallying financial support for the defendant’s family — garnering nearly $1 million in a matter of days.
Lindsay Clancy sits in court on Aug. 13, 2026. (Josh Reynolds/AP/Pool)
Clancy, 36, is accused of murdering her three young children, who were found strangled with exercise bands in the basement of the family’s home. Clancy has admitted to killing her children in court documents, but has pleaded not guilty because she says she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was legally insane at the time.
The murder trial has captivated the country, with thousands of people flocking to social media to dissect testimony and evidence each day after court ends. One of those people, Brandee Mulligan, lives in Wisconsin and began posting her reactions to the case on TikTok.
Mulligan posted her first video about the trial on Aug. 6. The next day, she began discussing the idea of launching a fundraiser to help Clancy’s parents, who have been paying for their daughter’s legal defense since the children were killed. Within a week, she had launched a GoFundMe to help the family. “Let’s just build them up and surround them with love,” Mulligan said in one video. “I kept seeing stuff online that they, like, remortgaged their house. They depleted their retirements. They don’t come from a lot of money. They don’t have anything.”
In a video posted on Aug. 15, Mulligan declared, “We got the family! I just got off the phone with Kevin Reddington!” referring to Clancy’s attorney. Mulligan explained that she had reached Reddington, who said that Clancy’s parents, Paula and Mike Musgrove, would agree to accept the money she was raising.
“They have spent years absorbing the travel, lodging and living costs required to remain close to their daughter, drawing down savings they spent a lifetime building,” the GoFundMe message says. “Nothing about this fund asks anyone to share their view of Lindsay or the criminal case. It asks donors to recognize the extraordinary financial burden her parents have carried simply by continuing to be present.”
The GoFundMe makes clear that all the money raised will be used to “cover the accumulated costs of travel, lodging, living expenses and other family expenses arising from their continued support of Lindsay.” Explaining the situation to her followers on social media, Mulligan said that the money has to be directed to Clancy’s parents and cannot be earmarked for her legal fees. “You can’t do that,” Mulligan said. “You cannot make GoFundMes that support legal stuff.”
Mulligan launched the fundraiser on Aug. 14 with an initial goal of $500,000 — by Aug. 17, she had raised the goal to $2 million and donors had contributed more than $849,000. Among the thousands of donations, the top donors stood out: One anonymous donor gave $10,000 while two women donated $5,000 each and more than a dozen other people each gave $1,000.
In a message posted to her account after the GoFundMe passed $500,000, she said that Mike Musgrove reached out to her to “extend their heartfelt appreciation to everyone that is a part of this…and trust me when I say they mean it.”
