Matthew Coleman
Matthew Coleman is an American who succumbed to the Qanon conspirarcy, and killed his own children in a fit of conspiracy induced madness, on August 9, 2021.[1]
On August 7, 2021, Coleman and his wife were packing for a family vacation, when he unexpectedly bundled their two small children into the family fan, leaving his wife behind.[1] He took the children, aged just 2 years, and 10 months, across the border to Mexico, where he killed them with a spear-fishing gun, two days later.
Coleman was captured, at the US border, when he returned to the USA.[1] He told FBI officials he felt he had to kill his children because his wife had "Serpent DNA", which they inherited.
In March 2022, FBI officials released documents from their interrogations of Coleman, and texts he had sent his wife, that showed his disordered thinking.[2] During one interrogation he told FBI officials that he felt like the character Neo, the hero of the film, The Matrix, as he lay in bed imagining he was decoding a huge conspiracy. Texts he sent his wife showed he was continuing to tell her he loved her, and that he expected their situation would soon return to normal, mere hours before murdering their children. In a text sent mere hours before the murders he wrote:
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"Hi babe, miss you too. Things have been rough but starting to get some clarity as well... Still confused on a lot of things though and processing through them. So many crazy thoughts going through my head right now, hard to explain,"[2]
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"Yeah, funny your getting some clarity through my grandmas old bibles. Wasn't there 2? Anyways, was actually still thinking of burning them in case theres a chip in them or something... Going to keep processing through everything and hope to get some answers. Hope all this craziness ends soon. Love you."[2]
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In May, 2022, ten months after the murders, Coleman wrote a letter, from prison, attributing the killings to conspiracy fueled madness, acknowledging that his notion his wife and children possessed evil lizard DNA was nonsense.[3] In his letter he called the notion a "delusion in my own mind". According to People magazine after losing access to conspiracy sites after his imprisonment, he wrote: "I'm sorting through it all now. There's a lot to unpack, but I have to figure out what I really believe, but I don't have access to information anymore, so I'm having to use my mind to figure things out."
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Steve Helling (2021-10-11). "Matthew Coleman 'Spent Hours Each Day' on QAnon Conspiracy Sites Before Allegedly Killing Kids". People magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-08-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20220808220738/https://people.com/crime/matthew-coleman-spent-hours-each-day-on-qanon-conspiracy-sites-before-killing-kids-says-family-friend/. Retrieved 2022-10-06. "Police say Coleman drove the children into Mexico. Two days later, authorities allege, he took the kids to a ranch, where he killed them with a spearfishing gun and returned to his hotel a few hours later. He was arrested when he attempted to cross the border back into the United States."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Olivia Jaktel (2022-03-02). "New Docs Show Matthew Coleman Thought He Was Neo from 'The Matrix' , Reveals Text to Wife Before Children's Killings". People magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-06-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20220622094146/https://people.com/crime/new-docs-show-matthew-coleman-thought-he-was-neo-from-the-matrix-reveals-text-to-wife/. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
- ↑ Steve Helling (2022-06-22). "In Letter from Jail, Matthew Taylor Coleman Admits 'Delusion in My Own Mind' Before Child Murders". People magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-06-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20220623070523/https://people.com/crime/matthew-taylor-coleman-letter-jail-admits-delusion/. Retrieved 2022-10-06. "'I was deceived,' Coleman wrote in the letter, which was viewed by PEOPLE. 'I was deceiving myself. I know now that the [reptile] DNA thing was a delusion in my own mind. I made myself believe something that wasn't there.'"
