A fundraiser for the family of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman who admitted to killing her three children, has brought in nearly $1 million, according to a report from Breitbart News. The money is intended to help Clancy’s parents, Mike and Paula Musgrove, cover the financial toll of supporting their daughter through her criminal case.
Clancy, 33, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to three counts of first-degree murder in the January 2023 deaths of her children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and 8-month-old Callan — in their Duxbury, Massachusetts home. In opening statements at her trial, which began July 27, her attorney Kevin Reddington acknowledged that Clancy killed her children but argued she should not be held criminally responsible due to postpartum depression and psychosis, exacerbated by more than a dozen prescribed medications.
According to Breitbart, Clancy sent her husband on errands before the killings, an act the outlet says shows premeditation. After the murders, she took pills, cut her throat and wrists, and jumped from a second-story window, leaving her permanently paralyzed from the waist down.
The GoFundMe, titled the “Musgrove Family Fund,” is specifically for her parents, who have remained by her side throughout the case. They relocated from Connecticut to Massachusetts to be near their daughter, attending court proceedings and absorbing travel and living costs that have drained their savings. Paula is retired; Mike is a photographer.
The fundraiser’s pitch states that the purpose is to help Mike and Paula “rebuild the financial stability they have sacrificed over these past three years.” It emphasizes that donors are not being asked to take a position on Lindsay or the case, only to acknowledge the parents’ financial burden. Mike and Paula are the named beneficiaries, and the fund was established with their consent and with the knowledge of Lindsay’s attorney.
Breitbart notes that the fundraiser appears designed to work around GoFundMe’s rules banning campaigns for people charged with violent crimes, since the money goes to the parents rather than to Clancy herself.
The report has sparked controversy. Critics, including Breitbart’s John Nolte, argue that the outpouring of support is driven by tribalism — that Clancy, an attractive, affluent, college-educated white woman from the East, is receiving sympathy that a working-class mother from a trailer park would never see. “Based solely, it seems to me, on tribalism, based solely on recognizing some of themselves in this admitted child murderer,” Nolte wrote, “a GoFundMe account has raised almost a million dollars for a ‘family fund,’ something these same people would never even consider doing for a woman who worked at Walmart and had car parts strewn across her lawn.”
Donor Comments Draw Fire
The article highlights comments from some donors that it calls “appalling,” with some suggesting Clancy is a victim or even a pioneer. One donor wrote, “Lindsay was a good mom and she loved her kids. Wishing her and her family peace.” Another said, “Please use my donation to better investigate Patrick’s role in this tragedy,” referring to Clancy’s husband. Others expressed love and support, with one calling her case a catalyst for “Lindsay’s law” to ensure mothers with postpartum depression receive all available resources. Another wrote that her suffering “WILL help prevent the future suffering of countless other families.”
Nolte dismissed these sentiments as “The Next New Thing for neurotic leftist women,” comparing the movement to other progressive causes. He argued that if Clancy were a tattooed, working-class mom from rural Alabama, the same donors “wouldn’t care one whit.”
Clancy’s trial continues, and the fundraiser has become a flashpoint in public debate about sympathy, privilege, and mental illness in the criminal justice system. The Breitbart report does not link to the fundraiser, and it is unclear how much of the nearly $1 million has been paid out to the Musgroves.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2026/08/18/nolte-nearly-1-million-raised-family-admitted-child-killer-lindsay-clancy/