Posted on 10/30/2024 9:52:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A 93-year-old Florida man allegedly confessed to twice trying to kill his wife of 60 years — because he “did not want to leave her alone” when he died, according to cops.
Helmut Lockner was arrested on Saturday after his wife said he crept up on her watching TV and tried to strangle her with some rope — weeks after he tried to smother her with a pillow, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
Lockner allegedly told detectives he planned to kill himself with the same rope, telling them that he “is dying and did not want to leave his wife alone,” according to an arrest report, which did not detail if the suspect had a terminal illness or was referring to his age.
His wife, who was not identified by police, said he first attempted to kill her two weeks earlier by smothering her with a pillow in bed — telling her then that “he did not want to leave her alone,” according to the arrest report.
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His wife, who was not identified by police, said he first attempted to kill her two weeks earlier by smothering her with a pillow in bed — telling her then that “he did not want to leave her alone,” according to the arrest report.
She managed to escape and did not report it because she was convinced he would not try to hurt her again.
Then on a “normal” Saturday, Lockner came behind his wife as she watched TV from a chair and pulled a rope around her neck — tugging hard enough “to the point she felt like her blood circulation was being cut off,” according to the police report.
His wife fought back and was able to get her hands between the rope and her neck and run into the patio, the report said.
She called 911, during which Lockner allegedly could be heard in the background saying, “You can die with me.”
Police found Lockner’s wife crying with bruises around her neck and blood pouring from her arm. Lockner was on the phone in another room. He later admitted that he was “trying to kill” his wife, the report said.
“I‘ve been at the sheriff’s office for five and a half years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Zach Moore, a sheriff’s office spokesperson, told local outlet WCJB.
“What we do know is that we’re very fortunate that this victim was able to fight him off and preserve her own life and that she’s still here with us,” he added.
Lockner is charged with two counts of first-degree attempted homicide. He is scheduled to appear in court on November 26, jail records show.
First time is happenstance.
Second time is coincidence.
Third time is enemy action.
Florida Man is an Internet meme first popularized in 2013, referring to an alleged prevalence of people performing irrational or maniacal actions in the U.S. state of Florida. Internet users typically submit links to news stories and articles about unusual or strange crimes and other events occurring in Florida, with stories’ headlines often beginning with “Florida Man ...” followed by the main event of the story. Because of the way news headlines are typically written, they can be creatively interpreted as implying that the subjects of the articles are all a single individual known as “Florida Man”.
The Miami New Times claimed that freedom of information laws in Florida make it easier for journalists to acquire information about arrests from the police than in other states and that this is responsible for a large number of news articles. A CNN article on the meme also suggested that the breadth of reports of bizarre activities is due to a confluence of factors, including public records laws giving journalists fast and easy access to police reports, the relatively high population of the state, its highly variable weather, and gaps in mental health funding.
That’s a very “Old Europe” way of thinking, where the Vikings would bury the living Widow with her dead husband, the presumption being, her life was only in servitude of her man. India used to have something similar, until The English sort of put an end to the tradition of funeral pyres.
It still happens in remote areas
Spend some time at a memory care facility, Sheriff.
He’s waiting for his trial in November.
Till then. he’ll be either in jail or she would have moved to a separate bedroom, at the very least.
‘Due to a confluence of factors’
It’s the Gulf Stream flowing through the Bermuda Triangle, I knew it.
“If that is the case I get it.”
Definite lack of God in their lives.
Can’t imagine she is worrying about getting along without him now.
Years later we found out that when their roof needed patching, my Grandmother took my Grandfather, when he was losing his faculties, up on the roof and tied him to the chimney while she patched the roof.
Lest you wonder about that, my Grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, actual "Sooners" in Oklahoma Territory. She didn't trust anyone else to work on her home.
Sounds like she’s in better shape than he is and she doesn’t want to die.
Add controlling to his possible state of mind.
If I can’t have her, nobody can?
I read it like “Florida Man” is an example of a genus or species of human being, such as Peking Man or Java Man. It makes the stories a tiny bit more interesting and funny.
I absolutely do not get it. She can kill herself if she wants to!! She doesn’t need his “help!” Good grief.
and they say romance is dead......
+1
After my FIL died my MIL was the happiest she’d been in years. They were married more than 50 years
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