{"id":2646189,"date":"2026-08-17T18:46:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fundraiser-for-lindsay-clancy-raises-over-850000-in-under-one-week\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T18:50:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:50:50","slug":"fundraiser-for-lindsay-clancy-raises-over-850000-in-under-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fundraiser-for-lindsay-clancy-raises-over-850000-in-under-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser for Lindsay Clancy raises over $850,000 in under one week"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffundraiser-for-lindsay-clancy-raises-over-850000-in-under-one-week%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2646189&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A gofundme campaign called \u201cThe Musgrove Family Fund\u201d has raised over $850,000 in less than a week to support the parents of Lindsay Clancy, who is charged with murdering her three children. Although the fund is intended for Mike and Paula Musgrove,many comments suggest it is viewed as support for Lindsay herself. The campaign aims to reach $2 million and has received approximately 26,000 donations, with many contributors addressing Lindsay directly and expressing support, despite her actions. <\/p>\n<p>In January 2023, Lindsay Clancy strangled her children-Cora (5), Dawson (3), and Callan (8 months)-with exercise bands, then attempted suicide by jumping out of a second-story window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. she later claimed she heard voices instructing her to kill her children and herself. Her mother testified that Clancy had expressed thoughts of harming her children as early as October 2022. Prosecutors allege Clancy premeditated the murder, evidenced by her searching for the restaurant she sent her husband to beforehand.<\/p>\n<p>Although Clancy\u2019s defence admits she committed the murders, they argue she should not be criminally responsible due to mental illness. She <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-texas-mom-left-son-in-hot-car-stopped-at-mcdonalds-en-route-to-emergency-room-where-he-died\/\" title=\"Police: Texas Mom Left Son in Hot Car, Stopped at McDonald&#039;s En Route to Emergency Room Where He Died\">faces potential life imprisonment<\/a> if convicted, or could be committed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/girl-convicted-in-slender-man-stabbing-case-makes-request-for-early-release\/\" title=\"Girl convicted in Slender Man stabbing ... makes request for early release\">mental health facility<\/a> if found not guilty by reason of insanity.The case has garnered critically important public attention and controversy, reflected in the supportive comments on the fundraiser.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A GoFundMe <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fundraising\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"1554\">fundraiser<\/a> for the parents of Lindsay Clancy, a former mother charged with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/murder\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"579\">murdering<\/a> her three children, raised over $850,000 in under one week to support their daughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fundraiser is called \u201cThe Musgrove Family Fund\u201d 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\u2019 explicit knowledge and consent and that Clancy\u2019s attorney, Kevin Reddington, is \u201caware of it,\u201d implying the parents are at least partially paying for Clancy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ny-dems-want-taxpayers-to-fork-over-300m-to-help-illegals-avoid-deportation\/\" title=\"NY Dems Want Taxpayers to Fork Over 0M to Help Illegals Avoid Deportation\">legal defense costs<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-considers-allowing-video-of-george-floyds-2019-arrest-in-trial\/\" title=\"Judge considers allowing video of George Floyd\u2019s 2019 arrest in trial\">high-profile case<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4690452\/fundraiser-money-pouring-in-lindsay-clancy-murder-trial-musgrove-family-fund\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Fundraiser for Lindsay Clancy raises over $850,000 in under one week<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/education\/4690327\/former-penn-state-fraternity-brothers-charged-drug-case\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Former Penn State fraternity brothers charged in drug trafficking case<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4689473\/socialist-group-panic-fbi-investigating-again\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Socialist group panics over FBI allegedly investigating it again<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fundraiser aims to raise $2 million and is nearly halfway there through 26,000 donations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 \u201c#lindsaysarmy,\u201d while many extolled what a good mother she was.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou were a warm, comforting, beautiful mom and your babies adored you!\u201d one commenter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another commenter described Clancy as a \u201ctrue hero,\u201d while many others found her situation relatable and blamed the children\u2019s murder on others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are rallying around Lindsay because in so many ways, she is us,\u201d a comment reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Jan. 24, 2023, Clancy asked her husband to go pick up takeout dinner for the family at a restaurant they didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 \u201cthoughts of harming the children.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/op-eds\/4666762\/economic-cost-of-crime-7-trillion-tax\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4666762\">THE $7 TRILLION INVISIBLE TAX: HOW CRIME IS ROBBING EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clancy\u2019s defense attorneys don\u2019t dispute that she murdered her children, but claim she shouldn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-4\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-25\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GoFundMe for Lindsay Clancy&#8217;s parents raises $850K+ in a week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2646190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26229512533627.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[84296,38753,10377,8135,84295],"class_list":["post-2646189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-charitable-donation","tag-community-support","tag-crowdfunding","tag-fundraiser","tag-lindsay-clancy"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26229512533627.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2646189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2646201,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646189\/revisions\/2646201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2646190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}