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The mother and father of an Illinois man who decapitated his pregnant girlfriend stated their son “heard voices” for “4 or 5 years”.
As we reported, 22 yr previous Liese Dodd was gruesomely murdered by her “tumultuous, on once more, off once more” boyfriend Deundrea Holloway. The pregnant lady’s physique was present in her residence by her mom, and her head was discovered “in a dumpster exterior of her condo”.
What a gut-wrenching discovery for a mom to make, really an unimaginable case…
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In accordance with Deundrea’s mom Carla in a information launch, he was performing “unusual” the night time the homicide came about. Carla heard her son speaking to himself as he cleaned the ground of their residence with bleach. In an interview with The Solar, stepfather Chris Hawk recounted what she had stated:
“She stated, ‘Why are you cleansing the ground of bleach? And I assume he stated, ‘That’s not bleach, that’s dish cleaning soap.’ And she or he stated, ‘No, it’s not. It’s bleach Clorox.’ It was simply sort of a dialog that couldn’t go anyplace, so she simply thought he was fooling around, and he or she took off to work.”
The mother and father, nevertheless, didn’t suspect on the time that their son had dedicated such a unthinkable act. However they did recall his odd conduct:
“He threw his garments within the trash can exterior of the home.”
Hawk revealed that this conduct wasn’t unusual for his or her son, citing that the 22-year-old struggled along with his psychological well being for years:
“He would begin speaking to himself, performing bizarre and rocking backwards and forwards on the sofa. And he stored saying, ‘No, no shut up, Ruth. No.’”
These cases are known as Deundrea’s “moments”. Hawk said that Ruth was a “darkish voice” his stepson typically heard chatting with him. In accordance with Holloway’s mom, her son started listening to these voices after a struggle that despatched his life in a “downward spiral”. He allegedly went on to have violent tendencies and at one level threatened to kill her and his sister over textual content message. How scary…
It obtained so scary, actually, Carla needed to get a restraining order on her personal son! She ultimately let the order expire, hoping that her son was getting higher. Chris and his spouse had tried for a very long time to get their son assist, however he wouldn’t cooperate. It’s reported {that a} yr earlier than his arrest, he walked out of a psychological well being clinic and refused to just accept remedy.
In a tearful second, Hawk apologized again and again to the Dodd household, saying that he was “ashamed” of what his stepson had finished:
“I don’t wish to decrease their loss in any respect. I’m sorry. It’s our son who’s chargeable for it. I’m not blaming every thing on the system. I’m simply saying that we will forestall this sort of factor. If we will determine learn how to do it, you already know? However I’m sorry. I’m actually sorry. He’s like, I don’t have the phrases. I’m ashamed. And I want I may return and check out different ways that we didn’t strive.”
Such a tragic state of affairs that might have doubtlessly been prevented…
Analysis suggests sufferers with psychological sickness could also be extra liable to violence if they don’t obtain enough remedy. And fashionable psychological well being remedy has a excessive success charge — between 70 and 90 % of people have a major discount of signs and improved high quality of life.
Our hearts exit to the Dodd household throughout this time of grievance.
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