Lindsay Clancy fans raise $1.2 MILLION after mistrial declared

Backers of Lindsay Clancy have been rushing to donate to her family in an online fundraiser in the wake of her trial, which ended in a mistrial from a hung jury following a marathon of jury deliberations. One male juror was determined to be a holdout who would not agree to a not guilty verdict.

On the day the mistrial was announced, Clancy fan and GoFundMe organizer Brandee Mulligan posted an update to the fundraising page saying she was increasing the campaign's target amount. The GoFundMe has reached nearly $1.2 million with a goal of $3 million. 

"I've decided to raise the goal of this fundraiser since this process has been extended, so is the time Paula and Mike will remain away from their home, continuing to carry the costs that come with being there for their daughter every day," Mulligan wrote.

"The original purpose of this fundraiser hasn't changed — it's simply to take one thing off their plate while they continue to show up for their family. If they have to keep showing up longer, I want to make sure the support does too."

Mulligan, who is a TikToker who has developed a fan base surrounding the Clancy trial, was the original organizer of the fundraising efforts. She did not know the Musgroves beforehand, and said that she started the fundraiser " without even asking permission.”

The murder trial for Clancy was thrown into a mistrial from a hung jury earlier this week after she was accused of murdering her three children, Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and baby Callan, eight months. She has admitted to strangling them with exercise bands, but claims to have been suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time of the killings and says that a voice in her head told her to kill her kids.

After killing the children, she cut her wrists and neck, then jumped out a window, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. Despite the brutal nature of the killings, waves of women online have supported her, with some even making TikTok videos about how they are the "same" as Clancy because they also had postpartum psychiatric symptoms such as depression.

Postpartum depression is much more common than psychosis, but depression alone rarely results in homicidal thoughts. Clancy had not been diagnosed with psychosis at the time and had not told doctors prior to the killings that she was hearing voices.