Martin F. Abernathy
I Could Post HUNDREDS Of These Cases...
Fri Apr 29, 2005 20:48
216.19.125.20
but this is my last one for today. I have been collecting news articles about 'bizarre' murders by 'mentally ill' people since 1998. I have over One THOUSAND of these types of news articles. There is something happening in this country, and it is being COVERED-UP by blaming these incidents on 'mental illness'. I am well aware that
genuine mental illness does exist; but I am also very well
aware [as is the FBI] that some crimes that are attributed
to mental illness have an entirely different cause.
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The Evening Sun (Hanover, PA)
October 7, 2003 Tuesday
SECTION: FRONT PAGE NEWS
LENGTH: 966 words
HEADLINE: Doc: Callahan played deadly game; Manheim Township man
believed brother, others were out to kill him.
BYLINE: By ELIZABETH EVANS For The Evening Sun
Killing his brother with a compound bow and arrow was, for James Callahan, the culmination of years of paranoia about family members and the government, borne out of a debilitating fear for his own life.
And as Callahan told two different doctors, killing 26-year-old MichaelCallahan III on Sept. 25, 2002, kept James Callahan from losing "The Game" -- a belief that Michael, their father, the Mafia and government spy agencies were working together to kill him.
To win, James Callahan had to stay alive, he told those doctors, whohave diagnosed the 29-year-old Manheim Township man as paranoid schizophrenic.
"He believed there is a complicated conspiracy in the world that wastrying to eliminate him ... requiring him to play the game' and that if he loses, he will be killed," Dr. Larry Rotenberg from Reading Hospital wrote about his court-appointed evaluation of James.
Based on recommendations from Rotenberg and Miami-based Dr. Bill Mosman,Common Pleas Judge Penny Blackwell on Friday found James Callahan not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
On her order, he was committed indefinitely to Mayview State Hospitalin Allegheny County.
"[Doctors] both agreed he had no idea what he was doing," first deputydistrict attorney Tim Barker said.
James Callahan was shot multiple times by Southwestern Regional Policewhen he aimed a bow and arrow at them, refusing to surrender after a five-hour police search that utilized K-9 units, night-vision goggles and a state police helicopter with infrared cameras.
When police found James Callahan, he was in a 20-foot-high tree stand.After he was arrested, police discovered he'd slashed his neck, right wrist and both ankles, court records state.
Although James Callahan showed signs of mental illness in adolescence,it worsened as he grew older, doctors said, to the point that he was having delusions of persecution and grandeur, and even hearing voices. He believed his food was being poisoned and he was being given cancer.
Because he could not function independently, he had lived at home since2000, becoming increasingly paranoid and reclusive, and avoided everyone but family members, according to Rotenberg. He refused to eat any food not prepared and eaten by his mother and would not take medications.
A September 2002 medical evaluation noted that James Callahan had barricadedhimself in his attic bedroom, barring all windows and doors -- even in sweltering heat. He watched television there, scratching the TV with a fishing pole when he believed it was giving him messages or trying to "zap" him.
Mosman noted that as Michael Callahan's wedding date drew closer, JamesCallahan grew more agitated.
Although he didn't know it, his siblings were already brainstormingabout ways to have him committed to a mental institution against his will. They planned to do so after Michael's wedding.
James Callahan believed the wedding was a smoke screen so his brothercould "bring a lot of people into the home ... [to] capture, torture and ultimately kill [him]," Mosman wrote.
He told the doctor, "The end game was near."
As people began arriving at the home Sept. 24, James Callahan watchedfrom his attic refuge:
"I saw their big cars, I saw them looking up at my room ... some ofthem were FBI and CIA cars," he told Mosman, and he knew "There was no place else to run, they were going to kill me."
His parents had taken all the guns from the home, but James Callahanfound a weapon to protect himself and headed outside. Family members saw him, but assumed he was hunting squirrels.
"He did not want to be cornered in his room but knew that if he tookoff across country that with their vehicles, satellites and tracking skills they would hunt him down before he got any distance at all," Mosman wrote. "So, he took his bow and arrow up on the hill so he could look down and see who would be the one to come and do it.'"
When he saw his brother Michael walking toward him, he was not surprised,according to Mosman.
"Michael was behind this since childhood," James Callahan told thedoctor.
"As he readied the bow and arrow, he was thinking of all the timesMichael gave him LSD or put carcinogenic stuff in his water," Rotenberg said. "James says that he knew it was not right to kill people. He says that people are killed in wars. And there was a war between me and my brother.' At the time, he felt that killing his brother was justified."
Barker said James Callahan will undergo annual evaluations to determineif his mental state has improved to the point where he should be released.
"The prognosis for him getting better is highly guarded," he said."Both doctors agree James Callahan needs to be institutionalized in a secure facility for a long period of time. He may be institutionalized for the rest of his life. ... Only Judge Blackwell has the authority to release him."
Barker said the ruling allows the Callahan family to be optimistic.
"They have hope that a cure may someday be found for their son, andif their son ... could be cured, he could be released. They deserve to have that hope," he said. "We have felt so horrible thinking about what this has done to their family. We have nothing but the deepest sympathy for what they've gone through."
For the foreseeable future, James Callahan will remain hospitalized,which both Mosman and Rotenberg believe is safest for everyone.
"[T]his individual is so severely ill, that in spite of the fact thathe is on a very large amount of antipsychotic medication, he still retains some residuals of his psychosis," Rotenberg said. "Like most people with his diagnosis, he has significant doubts about his own illness. And therefore, the minute he is not under supervision, will undoubtedly stop his medication."
genuine mental illness does exist; but I am also very well
aware [as is the FBI] that some crimes that are attributed
to mental illness have an entirely different cause.
+++++++
The Evening Sun (Hanover, PA)
October 7, 2003 Tuesday
SECTION: FRONT PAGE NEWS
LENGTH: 966 words
HEADLINE: Doc: Callahan played deadly game; Manheim Township man
believed brother, others were out to kill him.
BYLINE: By ELIZABETH EVANS For The Evening Sun
Killing his brother with a compound bow and arrow was, for James Callahan, the culmination of years of paranoia about family members and the government, borne out of a debilitating fear for his own life.
And as Callahan told two different doctors, killing 26-year-old MichaelCallahan III on Sept. 25, 2002, kept James Callahan from losing "The Game" -- a belief that Michael, their father, the Mafia and government spy agencies were working together to kill him.
To win, James Callahan had to stay alive, he told those doctors, whohave diagnosed the 29-year-old Manheim Township man as paranoid schizophrenic.
"He believed there is a complicated conspiracy in the world that wastrying to eliminate him ... requiring him to play the game' and that if he loses, he will be killed," Dr. Larry Rotenberg from Reading Hospital wrote about his court-appointed evaluation of James.
Based on recommendations from Rotenberg and Miami-based Dr. Bill Mosman,Common Pleas Judge Penny Blackwell on Friday found James Callahan not guilty of murder by reason of insanity.
On her order, he was committed indefinitely to Mayview State Hospitalin Allegheny County.
"[Doctors] both agreed he had no idea what he was doing," first deputydistrict attorney Tim Barker said.
James Callahan was shot multiple times by Southwestern Regional Policewhen he aimed a bow and arrow at them, refusing to surrender after a five-hour police search that utilized K-9 units, night-vision goggles and a state police helicopter with infrared cameras.
When police found James Callahan, he was in a 20-foot-high tree stand.After he was arrested, police discovered he'd slashed his neck, right wrist and both ankles, court records state.
Although James Callahan showed signs of mental illness in adolescence,it worsened as he grew older, doctors said, to the point that he was having delusions of persecution and grandeur, and even hearing voices. He believed his food was being poisoned and he was being given cancer.
Because he could not function independently, he had lived at home since2000, becoming increasingly paranoid and reclusive, and avoided everyone but family members, according to Rotenberg. He refused to eat any food not prepared and eaten by his mother and would not take medications.
A September 2002 medical evaluation noted that James Callahan had barricadedhimself in his attic bedroom, barring all windows and doors -- even in sweltering heat. He watched television there, scratching the TV with a fishing pole when he believed it was giving him messages or trying to "zap" him.
Mosman noted that as Michael Callahan's wedding date drew closer, JamesCallahan grew more agitated.
Although he didn't know it, his siblings were already brainstormingabout ways to have him committed to a mental institution against his will. They planned to do so after Michael's wedding.
James Callahan believed the wedding was a smoke screen so his brothercould "bring a lot of people into the home ... [to] capture, torture and ultimately kill [him]," Mosman wrote.
He told the doctor, "The end game was near."
As people began arriving at the home Sept. 24, James Callahan watchedfrom his attic refuge:
"I saw their big cars, I saw them looking up at my room ... some ofthem were FBI and CIA cars," he told Mosman, and he knew "There was no place else to run, they were going to kill me."
His parents had taken all the guns from the home, but James Callahanfound a weapon to protect himself and headed outside. Family members saw him, but assumed he was hunting squirrels.
"He did not want to be cornered in his room but knew that if he tookoff across country that with their vehicles, satellites and tracking skills they would hunt him down before he got any distance at all," Mosman wrote. "So, he took his bow and arrow up on the hill so he could look down and see who would be the one to come and do it.'"
When he saw his brother Michael walking toward him, he was not surprised,according to Mosman.
"Michael was behind this since childhood," James Callahan told thedoctor.
"As he readied the bow and arrow, he was thinking of all the timesMichael gave him LSD or put carcinogenic stuff in his water," Rotenberg said. "James says that he knew it was not right to kill people. He says that people are killed in wars. And there was a war between me and my brother.' At the time, he felt that killing his brother was justified."
Barker said James Callahan will undergo annual evaluations to determineif his mental state has improved to the point where he should be released.
"The prognosis for him getting better is highly guarded," he said."Both doctors agree James Callahan needs to be institutionalized in a secure facility for a long period of time. He may be institutionalized for the rest of his life. ... Only Judge Blackwell has the authority to release him."
Barker said the ruling allows the Callahan family to be optimistic.
"They have hope that a cure may someday be found for their son, andif their son ... could be cured, he could be released. They deserve to have that hope," he said. "We have felt so horrible thinking about what this has done to their family. We have nothing but the deepest sympathy for what they've gone through."
For the foreseeable future, James Callahan will remain hospitalized,which both Mosman and Rotenberg believe is safest for everyone.
"[T]his individual is so severely ill, that in spite of the fact thathe is on a very large amount of antipsychotic medication, he still retains some residuals of his psychosis," Rotenberg said. "Like most people with his diagnosis, he has significant doubts about his own illness. And therefore, the minute he is not under supervision, will undoubtedly stop his medication."
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