A Wisconsin mother of three who launched a fundraiser that has collected $1.2 million for Lindsay Clancy’s parents says her effort was driven by sympathy for the family — though the money could ultimately be used to benefit Clancy, who is accused of killing her children.
Brandee Mulligan, 42, a separated TikTok creator with no connection to 36-year-old Clancy, her estranged husband Patrick, or her parents Michael and Paula Musgrove, created the GoFundMe campaign last month before ever speaking with the family.
“They had no idea and they were just extremely grateful and overwhelmed by all the support,” Mulligan told The Post.
Explaining her decision to establish “The Musgrove Family Fund,” Mulligan said, “And as a mom, like your heart just goes out to Lindsay.”
“And I don’t want to focus too much on the Lindsay aspect of it. But I mean, it’s a huge part of it,” she added before turning her attention to Clancy’s parents.
“Her parents have uprooted their whole life for three and a half years. They’ve given everything to this.”
Mulligan told The Post that she later spoke with Clancy’s father and designated him as the fundraiser’s sole beneficiary.
Massachusetts, however, has no law preventing people accused of crimes from receiving donations to help fight the allegations against them.
The state is among 23 without a so-called Son of Sam law. New York enacted its version after filmmakers sought to pay the notorious New York serial killer for his life story and media rights. As a result, Clancy’s father could give the funds to his daughter or use them to cover her legal defense.
Clancy attorney Kevin Reddington previously said that “every nickel” spent on her defense had been paid by the Musgroves, who were “pretty much depleting everything they have” to finance it.
The fund is the only GoFundMe page publicly confirmed by the platform as being connected to the family.
Mulligan regularly posts on social media in support of Clancy.
“This is truly a jury of her peers,” she gushed on TikTok after a mistrial was declared Sept. 4, before going on to lash out against the lone holdout juror. “And then one total idiot … one f–king man.”
But several posts she shared bashed — and appeared to cast suspicion on — Patrick Clancy’s involvement in the murder of his three children.
In one TikTok she shared, a former prosecutor questioned why Patrick Clancy appeared to be wearing different clothing in surveillance footage from two locations during his alibi and why investigators apparently did not obtain his phone records to corroborate his movements.
Patrick Clancy’s attorney slammed the “escalating campaign of misinformation” being waged by influencers earlier this week — threatening “every appropriate measure will be pursued to hold them accountable.”
Reached by phone, Mulligan didn’t walk back her criticism of the ex-husband, instead telling The Post: “I don’t have any comment on that.”
She said the fund — which has collected donations from more than 1,000 people so far, mostly women — is to cover travel expenses for Michael, 70, and Paula Musgrove, 73, from their home near New Haven, Conn., to Plymouth, Mass., where their daughter stood trial.
When the mistrial was declared, Mulligan raised the goal from the initial $2 million to $3 million.
“They’ve been in hotels, they’ve depleted their savings, and they’re the ones that footed the bill for her legal things,” she said of Clancy’s parents. “They’ve been the ones supporting Lindsay.”
GoFundMe doesn’t allow campaigns to pay for criminal defenses against charges for violent crimes, but the site has ignored repeated questions from The Post about what, if any, safeguards it has in place to ensure the money isn’t used to pay for Clancy’s legal defense.
“Everybody’s very clear on what it can and can’t be used for. And the families, they know that,” claimed Mulligan.
“Being a mom is hard, and it’s resonated with a lot of people all over the world. So many women. It’s incredible,” she said of the fundraiser.
“They tell moms to reach out and get help and then when you don’t get that, then what? And I hope that this case helps change that.”
Mulligan herself has face criticism online, and regularly shares comments from her haters, including one where someone said she was “psychotic” if she supported Clancy killing her children.
“You’re setting women back decades,” she said.
Clancy’s parents, Michael and Paula, have not returned The Post’s calls.