Murder Charge Dropped For Teen Accused Of Decapitating Mother "Because I Felt Like It"

CBS ^ | 10/12/17 | Crimesider Staff

[Enlightened1]

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A North Carolina teenager accused of decapitating his mother is psychotic and won't be prosecuted on a murder charge, his attorney said Wednesday.

A judge ordered 19-year-old Oliver Funes Machada involuntarily committed to a state psychiatric hospital after a series of mental health evaluations, including those by state experts, defense attorney Boyd Sturges said. Machada was ruled incompetent to proceed with his case.

"This is consistent with what our position is," Sturges said. "We feel that Mr. Machada is very, very seriously deranged. And clearly he's psychotic, and we think the state's correct."

 

Sturges said the prosecutor agreed to dismiss the murder charge under an arrangement that could allow the case to be pursued again if Machada were deemed competent in the future.

Machada told a 911 dispatcher he stabbed his mother repeatedly on a March 2017 afternoon because she had angered him, according to court documents. The teen calmly told the dispatcher that he wouldn't harm two younger siblings heard wailing in the background of a 911 recording.

Machada told dispatchers he killed the woman "because I felt like it," according to an investigator's affidavit obtained by CBS affiliate WNCN.

He also told a dispatcher that "he stabbed her 'like eight times' and left the knife in her mouth," according to the sworn statement by Det. A.R. Roberts of the Franklin County Sheriff's Office, reports the station.

Warrants say a deputy saw him carry his 35-year-old mother's severed head and a knife outside their home in Zebulon, which is east of Raleigh. The siblings, ages 2 and 4, were unhurt when authorities arrived at the grisly scene on a quiet, rural street.

Court documents said Machada, who was 18 at the time, was on multiple psychiatric medications.

[DiogenesLamp]

Murder Charge Dropped For Teen Accused Of Decapitating Mother "Because I Felt Like It"

I have always believed that if someone is "nuts", that is all the more reason they need to be executed if they commit a horrific crime.

[Red Badger]

19-year-old Oliver Funes Machada

A 'dreamer'?....................

[Kriggerel]

Gee,
That’s right up there with Edwin Emil Kemper III shooting his grandparents: “Just to see what it felt like”.

[hal ogen]

No...a psychotic nightmare.

[Right Brother]

A 'dreamer'?....................

Yeah, he dreamed he was a Muslim.

[null and void]

“...you may say I’m a dreamer,
but I’m not the only one...”

[onedoug]

BTT!

[cincinnati65]

EVERY murderer is crazy, because there is NEVER a sane, rational train of thought that leads you to murder another person.

[Enlightened1]

Exactly!

When has murder been considered a sane act?

[FlingWingFlyer]

Another crazy Clintoon supporter gets away with murder.

[yuleeyahoo]

From the scene in "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein, shortly after a child-killer is executed by hanging:

That night I tried to figure out how such things could be kept from happening. Of course, they hardly ever do nowadays—but even once is ‘way too many. I never did reach an answer that satisfied me. This Dillinger — he looked like anybody else, and his behavior and record couldn’t have been too odd or he would never have reached Camp Currie in the first place. I suppose he was one of those pathological personalities you read about—no way to spot them.

Well, if there was no way to keep it from happening once, there was only one sure way to keep it from happening twice. Which we had used.

If Dillinger had understood what he was doing (which seemed incredible) then he got what was coming to him. .. except that it seemed a shame that he hadn’t suffered as much as had little Barbara Anne — he practically hadn’t suffered at all.

But suppose, as seemed more likely, that he was so crazy that he had never been aware that he was doing anything wrong? What then?

Well, we shoot mad dogs, don’t we?

Yes, but being crazy that way is a sickness—

I couldn’t see but two possibilities. Either he couldn’t be made well in which case he was better dead for his own sake and for the safety of others—or he could be treated and made sane. In which case (it seemed to me) if he ever became sane enough for civilized society. .. and thought over what he had done while he was “sick”—what could be left for him but suicide? How could he live with himself?

And suppose he escaped before he was cured and did the same thing again? And maybe again? How do you explain that to bereaved parents? In view of his record?

I couldn’t see but one answer.

…..

I wondered how Colonel Dubois would have classed Dillinger. Was he a juvenile criminal who merited pity even though you had to get rid of him? Or was he an adult delinquent who deserved nothing but contempt?

I didn’t know, I would never know. The one thing I was sure of was that he would never again kill any little girls.

That suited me. I went to sleep.

[yldstrk]

I loved Reagan and thought he was great politician and just what our country needed.

However, the mental health system is non-existent in this country and there are millions of us who are subject to victimization from mentally ill family members who drain us of money and resources, frighten and disgust their siblings and their parents, and their civil rights trump ours. We are left holding the bag to either support these characters in homes of their own (preferable) or living with us (not good), while they spend their time making others weirded out and we get no help from the government. This is an area screaming for government attention. As it is, the so called crisis intervention teams tout the civil rights of the mentally ill as the reason they will not pick them up and get them to a facility. It is bullsh8t.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Locking them up, like you mean it is apt punishment as far as I'm concerned. You can't undo what they've done. All you can really do is deter the next guy.

Our mental health systems so F'd up. I'm sure the committal process has been abused in the past (such as the Kennedy daughter), but these loons can't be left on the street. There's not a Karl Childers in the bunch

It seems that the psychotics are all known and just quit taking their meds. They have to be tracked on a daily basis in perpetuity. One day off the meds it should be back to the funny farm for awhile.

The ACLU thinks otherwise. There lies the root cause. It's a true bleeding heart liberal mantra.

[zerosix]

Definitely illegals.

ICE was able to furnish correct name and spelling of perp.

Neighbor who had lived close by was stunned, saying “family moved in early June.”

Mom, besides having the 18yr old, also had children 14, 4 & 2 (2 &4 must be her “anchor babies”)!

Others showed up at the home and removed family belongings but wouldn’t speak to neighbors (guess they didn’t speak English well enough to communicate!)

[Lurkinanloomin]

We should stop importing psychos.

[Yulee]

“because I felt like it,”

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So if someone feels like robbing a bank, kidnapping a person, writing a bad check, taking illegal drugs, abusing another person, or any other crime, they should be deemed insane, and committed, rather than tried for the crime?

[fredhead]

I served on a jury for a murder trial. The testimony was that the murderer told his friends that he would show them how easy it was to kill someone (a passed out homeless man on church steps). What convicted him was the video in the police interrogation room where he told his mother that he did it.

[9YearLurker]

A 19yo with a 35yo mother.

[liberalism is suicide]

The hand-wringers of the Left are moaning about gthe availability of guns causing such tragedies as the Las Vegas massacre. Wrong approach. The soft on criminals approach that they’ve inflicted on this country is a major cause of the problem. The death penalty justly but speedily applied,while not the only solution,will help reduce violent crime.