A Southern California execution trial would be just another tragic tale of neighbor shoots neighbor , except the accused believes that he is a werewolf … and he believed his victim was a vampire , according to the testimony of a forensic psychologist .
Reports the San Luis Obispo - basedTribune :
The District Attorney ’s Office suppose Mark Andrews , 51 , devote slaying when he shoot Colleen Barga - Milbury , 52 , doubly on May 22 , 2013 . But Andrews has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity .
[ Forensic psychologist Carolyn ] Murphy said Andrews has schizophrenia and suffers from fixed delusions , which she delineate as false feeling that preserve over clock time .
The first record of Andrews believing he was a loup-garou , she say , dates to 1996 , though she suspects he had that same delusion during his first psychotic episode three years originally .
“ ( He believes ) he translate into a werewolf , ” she say , and “ holds the spirit of the wolf . ”
Murphy read Andrews believed the voice of God command him to stamp out Barga - Milbury , whom he believed was a lamia .
In 2009 , according to court record , Andrews believed a unlike neighbor was a lamia . Andrews left mounds of dirt and flour on that neighbor ’s door and once pounded on the neighbour ’s doorway , calling her a “ bitch , ” though she did n’t do .
Despite his history of genial illness . Andrews was known to not be taking his medications regularly .
The deputy district attorney on the case , Matt Kraut , does n’t grease one’s palms the insanity plea .
He suggested that various people who had interactions with Andrews before and after the murder did not notice psychotic behavior , let in police who interview him after the shooting , jail stave and the defendant ’s treating psychiatrist , who had line Andrews as relatively static three months earlier .
bestow another wrinkle to this deplorable tale : before in the tryout , the juryheard a recordingof Murphy telling his mother he want to be “ executed and die ” just days after the 2013 crime .
ViaDangerous Minds .
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