A 34-year-old man in Connecticut was arrested this week for allegedly drowning his mother in a public park, calling the police to report the murder, and then telling officers that he was “sacrificing” his mom to “make the demons stop.”
Eric R. Meagan was taken into custody on Monday and charged with one count of murder in the death of 56-year-old Victoria Palmer.
According to their report, police say that when they located Meagan by the riverside, he told the officers that he had not slept at all the previous night because he had been “tormented by demons.” He also allegedly admitted that he had invited his mother to go for a walk in the park with him — something they reportedly did regularly — knowing that he planned on “hurting” her.
“He described the demons as insects all over him but he can’t see them. He can only feel them, and they have been tormenting him for weeks,” police wrote.
Meagan — who is living with “significant mental health issues,” according to his attorney – also reportedly explained the tragic reason he chose to kill his mother after a previous attempt to quell the demons by strangling one of the family’s cats failed.
“He stated that strangling his cats was his first attempt at making the demons stop but that it was not enough. When asked why he chose his mother, he stated, ‘because I love her the most.’ He stated he feels safe now,” police wrote in court documents, according to the News-Times. “He believed his mother loved him so much she would have been willing to sacrifice herself to save him.”
Meagan is currently being held on $2 million bond and is scheduled to return to court on July 7.
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Eric R. Meagan was taken into custody on Monday and charged with one count of murder in the death of 56-year-old Victoria Palmer.
According to their report, police say that when they located Meagan by the riverside, he told the officers that he had not slept at all the previous night because he had been “tormented by demons.” He also allegedly admitted that he had invited his mother to go for a walk in the park with him — something they reportedly did regularly — knowing that he planned on “hurting” her.
“He described the demons as insects all over him but he can’t see them. He can only feel them, and they have been tormenting him for weeks,” police wrote.
Meagan — who is living with “significant mental health issues,” according to his attorney – also reportedly explained the tragic reason he chose to kill his mother after a previous attempt to quell the demons by strangling one of the family’s cats failed.
“He stated that strangling his cats was his first attempt at making the demons stop but that it was not enough. When asked why he chose his mother, he stated, ‘because I love her the most.’ He stated he feels safe now,” police wrote in court documents, according to the News-Times. “He believed his mother loved him so much she would have been willing to sacrifice herself to save him.”
Meagan is currently being held on $2 million bond and is scheduled to return to court on July 7.
Man who allegedly drowned mom in park river was 'sacrificing' her to 'make the demons stop'
Eric R. Meagan allegedly drowned his mom, holding her underwater in a Connecticut park for 10 minutes, then called the police and said he was "sacrificing" her to "make the demons stop."
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