A 15-year-old Wisconsin boy has been charged as an adult with stabbing his mother to death and said he was inspired to kill Suzanne Gelinskey while watching a documentary on the Menendez brothers.
Reed Gelinskey has been charged with first degree intentional homicide in the March 4 murder.
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According to the criminal complaint filed in the case, Gelinskey said he had come home from school that day and “felt depression and an urge to kill his parents.” He said he first searched the home for a hammer to kill his father, which he planned to do when he came home from work, but couldn’t find one big enough.
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After dinner, he said, his mother was working on her computer and he began watching the Menendez brothers documentary on Netflix.
“Gelinskey stated he then developed the plan to kill his parents,” the complaint said. “He stated it came to him while he watched the ‘shotgun scene.’”
Shortly before 10 p.m., the boy said, his mother went upstairs and he hid his medication, then told her he couldn’t find it. He secured a steak knife in his pocket and a dumbbell bar in his sweatshirt sleeve, and when his mother came back downstairs to help him find it, he hit her in the head twice with the dumbbell bar. When she didn’t fall, he threw her on the floor and grabbed the knife.
“Gelinskey said she tried to kick him off of her approximately 7 times but eventually he stabbed her three times in the chest and twice in the neck,” the affidavit says. “Gelinskey stated his mother asked him, ‘why?’ and he replied, ‘pain.’”
After the attack on his mother, Gelinskey said he contacted a friend over Snapchat and told her to call police, then he sat down and waited. The friend told dispatchers Gelinskey had sent her a photo showing a woman lying face-up. on her back and another with blood on the floor. Additionally, Gelinskey told her he needed help and he had stabbed his mother to death.
When police arrived, Gelinksey came outside and dropped a knife on the front stoop, telling officers to kill him. “She is dead,” he told them. “She is dead from what I did.”
The officers noted that the boy’s clothing appeared to have blood on it. He later told them he hit his mother over the head with the dumbbell “to knock her out so he could stab her with the knife.”
After taking the boy into custody, officers entered the home and found his mother on the floor in the foyer with stab wounds and blood-soaked clothing.
They secured the knife the teen had dropped on the front stoop and found a second one near the kitchen sink. The dumbbell bar was also found in the kitchen.
Gelinskey made his first court appearance Thursday afternoon and was ordered held on a $1 million bond, WTMJ said.
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