Posted on 06/15/2022 10:45:51 AM PDT by Morgana
An Illinois father, who drowned his three children in a bathtub and then placed their bodies in the bedroom of his home, has been charged with murder.
Jason E. Karels, 35, of Chicago, drowned his children one-by-one in the bathtub of his Camden Lane home on Monday after he and his wife Debra recently split up, a prosecutor said at a bond court hearing on Wednesday.
His children - Bryant, 5; Cassidy, 3; and Gideon, 2 - were spending the weekend with their father when their mother, Debra, found their bodies in the bedroom after calling for a welfare check for Karels, who was said had 'severe mental health problems.'
Karels was not on the property when she discovered their children in his home. The pair shared custody of the children, but did not live together.
Inside the home, police found a note written by Karels to Debra, with one line reading: 'If I can't have them, then neither can you,' prosecutors said. Authorities say the killings appear to have been 'motivated from a domestic situation.'
'Unfortunately, there was domestic abuse in their relationship and Debbie was finally getting the strength to leave him and proceed with a divorce,' her sister-in-law Christina Neuman Berg, explained to the Daily Beast.
'Debbie wanted to maintain a relationship with her kids' father and let him visit them, and now we know that was a horrible mistake.'
Preliminary autopsy results showed all three died from drowning, Chief Deputy Coroner Steve Newton of the Lake County Coroner's Office said.
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230 grains.
End of story.
Didn’t even have the decency to off himself first.
what a sick loser, couldn’t even kill himself properly afterwards.
What on Earth is happening? The world is going mad.
45 ACP?
Yeah, thats not selfish at all. (eyeroll)
Words mostly fail me about this monster. I do hope the death penalty is still on the books in Illinois. Don’t make him suffer, no lethal injection, no ‘ol Sparky, just make it quick, a double tap to the head. Get him to the Judge ASAP.
Let God deal with him, and quickly. A much more severe punishment than any human court could dish out.
What a ba$tard, may be burn in he11 forever....
Has happened many times in the past and will happen again.
Divorce is not pretty.
I actually have a friend with a similar story. Her husband (they were in the process of divorcing) killed their 3 and 5 year old children and then killed himself. She went on later to remarry and have a second set of children. So very sad but she was and is resilient. We honor the anniversary of her kids’ death every year.
This guy needs to die a slow, tortuous death.
Sick bastard. Just another kind of evil.
Hopefully he’s ‘accidentally’ placed in general population in an area with a malfunctioning security camera. There’s probably one or two inmates that would take satisfaction in drowning him slowly in a soiled toilet.
Just the pic tells me he is excellent ex-husband material.
Which is to say, none.
You kill your kids, you should be hanged in the public square.
There’s a theory that in general mothers love their kids whether or not they love the father, but fathers are more apt to love their kids a bit more conditionally on whether they love the mother. I’m female (and a mother) so dads feel free to disagree.
Yes.
A trigger pull requires less strength.
Actually, as a grandparent, I would have taken one for the team and done the trigger pull myself.
People, especially grandparents, have got to start manning up when it comes to this cr@p.
You’ll want to spit some Beechnut in that dude’s eye first...
A horrible monster - should get the death penalty.
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