The girl behind the fundraiser that has amassed $1.2 million for Lindsay Clancy’s mother and father is a 42-year-old separated Wisconsin TikTok mom-of-three whose efforts might in the end enrich the killer mother.
Brandee Mulligan — who has no affiliation with 36-year-old Clancy, her ex-husband, Patrick, or her mother and father, Michael and Paula Musgrove — arrange a GoFundMe web page final month with out chatting with them.
“They’d no thought and so they had been simply extraordinarily grateful and overwhelmed by all of the assist,” Mulligan advised The Put up.
“And as a mother, like your coronary heart simply goes out to Lindsay,” she mentioned of why she began “The Musgrove Household Fund.”
“And I don’t wish to focus an excessive amount of on the Lindsay facet of it. However I imply, it’s an enormous a part of it,” she added, earlier than speaking about Clancy’s mother and pa.
“Her mother and father have uprooted their complete life for 3 and a half years. They’ve given all the pieces to this.”
Mulligan has since spoken with Clancy’s father and made him the fund’s sole beneficiary, the influencer mother advised The Put up.
However Massachusetts has no regulation barring accused criminals from accepting donations to combat the costs in opposition to them.
It’s one in every of 23 states with out what’s generally known as a Son of Sam regulation — enacted in New York after filmmakers rushed to supply the infamous Gotham serial killer cash for his life story and media rights — so Clancy’s father might hand the cash to his daughter or use it to pay for her protection.
Clancy’s legal professional, Kevin Reddington, beforehand mentioned “each nickel” spent on Clancy’s protection had come from the Musgroves, who had been “just about depleting all the pieces they’ve” to fund it.
The fund is the one GoFundMe web page publicly confirmed by the platform as being linked to the household.
Mulligan often posts on social media in assist of Clancy.
“That is actually a jury of her friends,” she gushed on TikTok after a mistrial was declared Sept. 4, earlier than occurring to lash out in opposition to the lone holdout juror. “After which one complete fool … one f–king man.”
However a number of posts she shared bashed — and appeared to forged suspicion on — Patrick Clancy’s involvement within the homicide of his three kids.
In a single TikTok she shared, a former prosecutor questioned why Patrick Clancy seemed to be sporting completely different clothes in surveillance footage from two areas throughout his alibi and why investigators apparently didn’t receive his cellphone data to corroborate his actions.
Patrick Clancy’s legal professional slammed the “escalating marketing campaign of misinformation” being waged by influencers earlier this week — threatening “each acceptable measure might be pursued to carry them accountable.”
Reached by cellphone, Mulligan didn’t stroll again her criticism of the ex-husband, as an alternative telling The Put up: “I don’t have any touch upon that.”
She mentioned the fund — which has collected donations from greater than 1,000 individuals up to now, principally girls — is to cowl journey bills for Michael, 70, and Paula Musgrove, 73, from their residence close to New Haven, Conn., to Plymouth, Mass., the place their daughter stood trial.
When the mistrial was declared, Mulligan raised the objective from the preliminary $2 million to $3 million.
“They’ve been in resorts, they’ve depleted their financial savings, and so they’re those that footed the invoice for her authorized issues,” she mentioned of Clancy’s mother and father. “They’ve been those supporting Lindsay.”
GoFundMe doesn’t enable campaigns to pay for legal defenses in opposition to prices for violent crimes, however the website has ignored repeated questions from The Put up about what, if any, safeguards it has in place to make sure the cash isn’t used to pay for Clancy’s authorized protection.
“Everyone’s very clear on what it may well and might’t be used for. And the households, they know that,” claimed Mulligan.
“Being a mother is difficult, and it’s resonated with lots of people all around the world. So many ladies. It’s unimaginable,” she mentioned of the fundraiser.
“They inform mothers to achieve out and get assist after which once you don’t get that, then what? And I hope that this case helps change that.”
Mulligan herself has face criticism on-line, and often shares feedback from her haters, together with one the place somebody mentioned she was “psychotic” if she supported Clancy killing her kids.
“You’re setting girls again many years,” she mentioned.
Clancy’s mother and father, Michael and Paula, haven’t returned The Put up’s calls.
