Teen Brutally Murdered Mother After Being Impressed by Netflix Menendez Brothers Doc: Police

Reed Gelinskey, 15, has been charged with first-degree intentional murder, and will likely be tried as an grownup for the killing of his mom, based on Wisconsin Circuit Court docket legal grievance and Legislation&Crime.

Per the grievance, on March 4, the Caledonia Police Division responded to a report of a “juvenile who stabbed his mom to demise.” Upon arrival on the Racine County residence, police mentioned within the docs they noticed a person — later recognized as Gelinskey — leaving the home, earlier than he “dropped a brown and silver kitchen knife.” The teenager then allegedly admitted to killing his mom.

“He then made statements for officers to kill him and said, ‘she is lifeless,’ and ‘she is lifeless from what I did,'” the grievance said, including that Gelinskey was taken into custody.

“Gelinskey later made an excited utterance stating he struck his mom over the pinnacle with a dumbbell in an try and knock her out so he might stab her with the knife,” the doc mentioned.

Within the grievance, police recalled what they allegedly found inside the house. They mentioned they discovered an “unresponsive” feminine, recognized as Gelinskey’s mom, Suzanne, with “obvious stab wounds and blood-soaked clothes.”

Based on police, they discovered the kitchen knife Gelinskey dropped on the entrance stoop, earlier than additionally discovering one other blooded knife and “silver adjustable dumbbell bar” within the kitchen.

The grievance detailed Gelinskey’s recollection of occasions he allegedly advised police after he was taken into custody.

Gelinskey allegedly recalled that he returned residence from college on Tuesday and “felt melancholy and an urge to kill his mother and father.” Per the grievance, he advised police that he had been taking his brother’s anxiousness treatment “for a few month,” and on Tuesday evening, he “took roughly 9 drugs and that it doesn’t assist his anxiousness nevertheless it makes him excessive and he enjoys that.”

Gelinskey allegedly admitted that he appeared for a hammer “as a result of he was going to kill his father when he got here residence from work however couldn’t discover one giant sufficient.”

Per police, he mentioned he was sitting on the sofa along with his mom after dinner, and placed on the Netflix Menendez Brothers documentary.

The Menendez Brothers is certainly one of two Netflix reveals about Erik and Lyle’s homicide of their mother and father that dropped on the streamer final 12 months. Whereas the documentary featured the brothers talking out for the primary time — from jail — and sharing the story of their mother and father’ murders and the next trial “in their very own phrases,” Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story is a retelling of the brothers’ 1989 killing of their mother and father, the trial, and conviction.

Based on the grievance, Gelinskey advised police that he “turned on the Menendez Brothers documentary on Netflix” and “said that he then developed the plan to kill his mother and father,” saying “it got here to him whereas he watched the ‘shotgun scene.'”

Gelinskey allegedly mentioned his mom went upstairs round 9:50 p.m., and he “acquired up and hid his sleeping treatment.” Police mentioned Gelinskey advised them he acquired a steak knife and put it in his pocket, earlier than calling for his mom to inform her he could not discover his treatment. Gelinskey mentioned, per the grievance, that he “hid a dumbbell bar within the sleeve of his sweatshirt” when his mom got here downstairs to assist him discover his lacking drugs.

“Gelinskey said whereas his mom’s again was to him he hit her twice within the head with the dumbbell. Gelinskey mentioned he thought she would fall over however she didn’t so he threw her to the bottom and grabbed the knife,” the grievance said. “Gelinskey mentioned she tried to kick him off of her roughly 7 occasions however ultimately he stabbed her thrice within the chest and twice within the neck. Gelinskey said his mom requested him, ‘why?’ and he replied, ‘ache.'”

The teenager mentioned that he then reached out to a feminine pal on Snapchat and “advised her to name the police,” per the doc. The grievance famous earlier that the Snapchat message allegedly featured a photograph of “a feminine laying face-up on her again,” with Gelinskey’s pal telling police that she “noticed a Snapchat picture with blood on the ground” and that the teenager admitted that he “wanted assist and that he stabbed his mom to demise.”

Gelinskey appeared in grownup court docket through Zoom on Thursday from a juvenile detention middle, based on native FOX affiliate WITI.

“This was an especially violent however deliberate offense. It is harmful in its nature. His unique plan was not for simply the one sufferer however for 2,” Racine County District Lawyer Patricia Hanson mentioned, per the outlet.

Gelinskey additionally appeared in court docket on Friday. His preliminary listening to is about for March 12.