Gabriel Melgaard Claimed Victim Was A Serial Killer, Worse Than Jeffrey Dahmer

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A 40-year-old man in Florida was arrested earlier this month after he allegedly beat his next-door neighbor to death, staged a bizarre crime scene that included stuffing items into the victim’s nostril and underwear, then called 911 and reported finding the victim dead when he stopped by to offer to mow the victim’s lawn.

Gabriel Joseph Melgaard was taken into custody on July 9 and charged with one count each of murder/homicide, probation violation, and misuse of the 911 system, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

Upon arriving at the scene, first responders walked into a grisly scene, locating the victim lying face-up on the floor in his living room.

“The decedent had several items stuffed into the waistband of his underwear. The decedent’s shirt was pulled up, exposing his stomach, football was tucked under his shirt. The decedent’s head was covered by a box which contained various items,” the affidavit states. “The decedent had a semi-automatic firearm in his right hand and a live .38-caliber round of ammunition had been inserted into the decedent’s left nostril. A magazine to a semi-automatic handgun had been placed in the decedent’s mouth.”

A representative from the medical examiner’s office was dispatched to the scene and noted that the victim had numerous “linear striations” on his abdomen caused by being beaten with an unknown object, various injuries to his face and head, defensive wounds on his hands, and a single puncture wound to his left shoulder.


The medical examiner determined that the manner of death was a homicide.

In a voluntary interview with investigators, Melgaard, who lives with his mother, allegedly said he slept from 2:30 a.m. until 6 a.m. that morning. When he awoke, he saw that it was “a nice day,” so he went to the victim’s home “to see if he wanted his lawn mowed,” Melgaard allegedly said.

Melgaard claimed he went next door and found the front door ajar, so he went inside and found the victim lying on the floor dead. Melgaard then told investigators he did not harm the victim in any way and even claimed that he had never been inside the other man’s house prior to finding him dead. He then gave a voluntary DNA sample and shoe impressions to police.

Later that day, at about 6:30 p.m., Melgaard’s sister called 911 and told the sheriff’s office that her brother had just confessed to killing his neighbor.

“[Melgaard] said the neighbor raped our mother,” she told police, per the affidavit. “She said, the defendant also said, when speaking about the victim, ‘He’s worse than Jeffrey Dahmer and he has victim’s hats in the house and he has pictures of all the people that he’s killed. And I killed him. Okay. I killed him.'”

Melgaard’s mother allegedly told police that she had never been sexually battered by the victim.

The sister also provided a brief description of the way in which Melgaard allegedly told her he’d killed the other man.

“She said the only thing [Melgaard] said was ‘He’d pass out and then I would let him come back to. And then I did it again and I did it again.’ But he didn’t say what he did,” the document states.

The sister also told detectives that her brother had a history of substance abuse and psychosis and had spent three weeks at a mental health facility in April.

'He's worse than Jeffrey Dahmer': Man allegedly killed neighbor, claimed the victim was a serial killer who had 'pictures of all the people he's killed'

Gabriel Joseph Melgaard allegedly told several people that he beat his neighbor to death, claiming that the victim was a serial killer who was "worse than Jeffrey Dahmer."

lawandcrime.com

 

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This belongs in past crimes.
Please do a search of titles before you post.

STATE OF FLORIDA vs. MELGAARD, GABRIEL JOSEPH

On 04/15/2021 STATE OF FLORIDA filed an Other - Other Criminal court case against MELGAARD, GABRIEL JOSEPH in Pinellas County 6th Judicial Circuit Courts. Court records for this case are available from Criminal Justice Center - County.

unicourt.com

 

[Symmachus]

There's a lot of violence reported on this forum. This is a horrible situation, clearly. Extreme, yes. Stupid-looking mugshot, yes.

All this stuff may be best to tune out. But also, it's important to know that this type of situation does happen. Or at least report so that anyone who wants to know can know.

But still, there's just a societal and criminal abscess from this situation with Melgaard. And that's not right.

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

Hey @knockout
Haha, always running for the teats of hate, aren't you?

What you gonna do when it's just your Gang of Four?
Running dogs of the bourgeois. Smh.


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