WTH? Lindsay Clancy’s Supporters Raise Nearly $840,000 After She Admitted Strangling Her Three Kids

Over 25,000 people have poured more than $838,000 into a GoFundMe for the parents of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother who has admitted to fatally strangling her three young children — Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and infant Callan — in their Duxbury home in January 2023. And if the comments flooding that fundraiser are any indication, a disturbing number of her “fans” aren’t interested in justice for the dead kids. They’re convinced Clancy is the real victim.

The campaign, officially framed as help for Clancy’s parents with travel and living expenses while they support their daughter through her ongoing murder trial, has become a magnet for messages that treat the confessed child killer as a sympathetic figure suffering from postpartum psychosis. Supporters gush about “women unite,” declare “we are with you, Lindsay,” and frame her actions as the product of mental illness rather than a choice to end three innocent lives.

Clancy has not denied killing her children. She sent her husband out for takeout and medicine, then used exercise bands to strangle them in the basement before attempting suicide by cutting herself and jumping from a second-story window. She is now paralyzed from the waist down. Her defense is pursuing an insanity claim, arguing severe postpartum mental illness left her not criminally responsible. Prosecutors counter that the killings were deliberate and premeditated.

Yet the online outpouring of support paints a different picture, one in which personal accountability evaporates and the mother who extinguished her own children’s lives is cast as the one in need of protection and solidarity. This is not compassion. This is the elevation of feelings over facts, and it reveals a cultural sickness that prioritizes the perpetrator’s narrative over the irreversible harm done to the most vulnerable.

Calling it “mass psychosis,” as commentator Collin Rugg did, is not hyperbole. When thousands of people open their wallets and keyboards to comfort a woman who admitted to murdering her babies while treating the dead children as secondary, something fundamental has broken.

The trial continues. Clancy faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted of first-degree murder. Whether a jury accepts the insanity defense remains to be seen. What should not be up for debate is this: three children are gone forever because of her actions. Raising hundreds of thousands of dollars while cheering her as a victim does not change that reality. It only underscores how far some are willing to go to invert right and wrong.