Questions, including the uncomfortable ones

No. It does not pay for attorneys, expert witnesses, investigators, or appeals. Lindsay Clancy is represented by Kevin Reddington, whose fee arrangement is a private matter between him and his client and has nothing to do with this fundraiser.

The fund covers the accumulated personal costs her parents have absorbed over three and a half years: travel, lodging, and living expenses.

No. The named beneficiary is Michael Musgrove, and funds transfer to Mike and Paula Musgrove's account. She is in custody and has been throughout.

Yes. Checkout is handled by Stripe and PayPal on their own pages — your card number goes to them and never touches this site. Both are among the largest payment companies in the world, and both are PCI-DSS certified.

The receiving account belongs to the Musgroves, so donations arrive with them directly. You keep the protections you normally have with a card payment: if anything were ever wrong, you could raise it with your bank or through PayPal in the usual way.

If you have a question before giving, you can reach the family at .

Almost certainly not. Contributions to a personal crowdfunding campaign for named individuals are generally treated as personal gifts rather than charitable contributions, and this fund is not a registered 501(c)(3). If the tax treatment is important to you, speak to a tax professional before giving — and note that a gift to Postpartum Support International is a different matter, as they are a registered nonprofit.

It is a large number, and it deserves a straight answer rather than a deflection.

The $2 million figure is a goal the organizer set, not a budget derived from receipts. The campaign describes it as helping the Musgroves rebuild financial stability — which is broader than reimbursing mileage. It includes a retirement that was spent down, income Mike lost by not working, and the cost of having run two households in two states since 2023.

Whether that adds up to $2 million is a judgement, and reasonable people land in different places on it. If the figure gives you pause, give an amount you are comfortable with, or give to the underlying cause instead. Both are legitimate responses, and neither requires you to accept a number you find unpersuasive.

The honest answer is that no public commitment has been made about a surplus, and the beneficiaries would decide. This page will not invent a promise on their behalf.

No. Nobody takes a cut. The account belongs to the Musgroves and the money is theirs the moment it clears.

Stripe and PayPal each deduct their standard payment processing fee — roughly 3% plus a small fixed amount per transaction — before depositing the rest. That is a cost of accepting cards at all, and it applies on GoFundMe too. One larger donation loses less to fixed fees than several small ones, if that happens to be a choice you have.

This is the objection, and it deserves better than a slogan.

Start with what is not being asked. You are not being asked to say the deaths were acceptable, to decide she was ill, to forgive anyone, or to think the verdict should go a particular way. The fund itself declines to take a position on guilt or innocence, and that is not a dodge — it is the actual structure of the thing.

What is being asked is whether Mike and Paula Musgrove did something wrong. They did not kill anyone. They lost three grandchildren. They then made a choice that most parents believe they would make and few are ever tested on: they did not abandon their surviving child. For that, they have spent three and a half years in a courtroom and most of their retirement.

You can believe Lindsay Clancy is guilty of first-degree murder and still think her parents should not be destitute for having sat in the gallery. Those two positions do not conflict. If, having sat with that, you still do not want to give — that is a coherent position too, and no one should badger you out of it.

Cora, Dawson, and Callan are the reason anyone knows these names, and nothing on this site is intended to move past them.

It is worth being clear that they were the Musgroves' grandchildren. This is not a case of a family supporting one side against the children; the same two people lost the children and are trying to hold on to their daughter. Both losses belong to them.

If you would rather direct your giving toward children's welfare or maternal mental health than toward this family, that is an entirely reasonable choice, and the resources page lists organisations that do that work.

No, and the campaign is explicit about this. Among the 31,000-plus people who have already donated are people who believe she was profoundly ill and people who believe she was not. The fund does not ask, and no answer is recorded anywhere.

It may also help to know what a finding of not criminally responsible would actually mean in Massachusetts: not release, but commitment to a secure psychiatric facility subject to periodic court review.

Patrick Clancy is not connected to this fundraiser and has no role in it. He and Lindsay Clancy have since divorced; he has remarried and testified at the trial.

In the days after his children died, he published a long public statement that asked people to forgive his wife. That statement is part of why this case has been discussed the way it has. But it was his to make, three and a half years ago, and nothing here should be read as speaking for him now.

Nothing about the fund's purpose is contingent on the verdict. The costs it addresses have already been incurred, over three and a half years, regardless of how the jury decides. A conviction would not refund the Musgroves' savings, and an acquittal would not either.

The Musgrove family. This is their own fundraising page, and donations are collected into their own account.

It is not operated by, affiliated with, or endorsed by GoFundMe. The GoFundMe campaign for the family is a separate fundraiser organized by Brandee Mulligan, linked throughout this site — both reach the same people.

Nothing here speaks for Lindsay Clancy's legal team, and nothing on this site should be read as a statement from her defense.

You can reach the family at .

The progress meter shows the total raised for the Musgroves across the whole fundraiser, as of August 22, 2026 — including the GoFundMe campaign, which reaches the same family.

It is a manual snapshot rather than a live feed, so it is always shown with the date it was taken.

Published court reporting and primary documents, all of it listed and linked on the sources section of the case page. Where outlets differed on a detail, the more conservative account was used.

No photographs of the family or the children appear anywhere on this site. That is deliberate: those images are copyrighted, and using them to solicit donations would be both a legal problem and the wrong thing to do.

This site publishes no donor list at all, so nothing you give here appears publicly under your name.

Stripe or PayPal holds the payment details you enter on their page and sends your receipt. You are not added to any mailing list.

On the separate GoFundMe campaign, checkout offers an option to hide your name from its public donation list.