‘I Was Going to Get Married to a Monster’: Man Calls Off $200K Wedding Over What His Fiancee Said About the Lindsay Clancy Case
"Who cares?"
A man says he called off his $200,000 wedding after learning his fiancée’s views on Lindsay Clancy, whose murder trial recently ended in a mistrial. According to Daily Dot, David Mãrumbâõ announced on TikTok that he’d called off the wedding, which had been scheduled for next month. He said he wanted to know what his fiancée thought of the case and asked her directly. She told him she believed Clancy was innocent.
When he pressed her about the three children who died, he said her response was, “Who cares?” He said the money wasn’t the issue, it was who he was about to marry. “I can’t believe I was going to get married to a monster,” he said. Clancy has been accused of strangling her three children and later survived a suicide attempt.
According to CNN, her murder trial recently ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked. The 12-person jury deliberated for roughly 38 hours over seven days before reporting they were split 11 to 1, with a single holdout juror preventing a unanimous verdict. Clancy’s defense team made a last-minute emergency appeal to the state’s Supreme Judicial Court, asking the judge to question or remove that juror, but the request was denied. Judge William Sullivan declared the mistrial on September 4, 2026.
What Actually Happened at the End of the Clancy Trial
Clancy’s attorney, Kevin Reddington, has argued throughout the case that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis at the time and shouldn’t be held criminally responsible, an approach known in Massachusetts as the insanity defense. Under the state’s legal standard, prosecutors have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant understood their actions were wrong or had the capacity to follow the law.
If they can’t, the case would end not with an acquittal but with hospitalization instead of prison. Prosecutors have argued the opposite, that Clancy planned the killings and understood what she was doing. Clancy’s defense centers on a specific, rare condition. Postpartum psychosis affects an estimated one to two out of every 1,000 women after childbirth, according to multiple studies, and typically develops within weeks of delivery.
Symptoms can include hallucinations, delusions, and a break from reality, distinct from and far more severe than postpartum depression, which affects roughly one in seven mothers. Doctors say the condition is treatable when caught early, but it’s frequently missed because symptoms can be mistaken for exhaustion or masked by a mother’s own effort to appear fine.
Clancy remains in custody at Tewksbury State Hospital, a state-run psychiatric facility where she’s been held for the past three years. Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz has not yet said whether his office will seek a retrial, and the court is scheduled to reconvene on September 29 to determine next steps.
Mãrumbâõ’s video was later reshared on X by a separate user, and the outlet said it could not independently verify the conversation he described with his former fiancée. There was no indication of any attempt to reach her for comment, and her side of the exchange remains unknown.
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