A 15 -year -old Wisconsin boy accused of killing his mother said he was inspired by a Netflix documentary on the Brothers Menendez.
Reed Gelinskey will be judged as an adult for the murder of her mother’s March 4, Suzanne Gelinskey, at their home in Caledonia, Wisconsin a criminal complaint.
The complaint indicates that Gelinskey sent a photo of his deceased mother lying on her back to a girl on Snapchat, which led to calling him the Caledonia police service. When the police arrived at the Gelinskey home, the complaint indicates that he was sitting at the front of the house in bloody clothes while holding a knife.
“She died,” he told the police, according to the complaint. “She died of what I did.”
Just before the murder, Gelinskey told the police that he was watching the documentary Menendez Brothers, about the double murder of 1989, on Netflix.
“Gelinskey said he then developed the plan to kill his parents. He said he had come to him while looking at the “shotgun”, referring to the start of Monsters: the story of Lyle and Erik Menendez – A recreated scene representing Lyle And Erik Menendez Holding their parents in their Californian living room.
The complaint indicates that Gelinskey “has felt depression and a desire to kill his parents” and that he has taken his brother’s anxiety medicines for about a month.
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Gelinskey told the police that he had hidden his medication and asked his mother to help seek him. When she turned her back, he would have “struck his mother over her head with a dumbbell in an attempt to knock her out so that he can stab her with the knife”.
He then pushed his mother to the ground and jumped on her with the knife in hand, said the complaint.
He would have stabbed his mother five times, three in the chest and twice in the neck, according to the complaint.
“Gelinskey said his mother asked him,” Why? ” And he replied: “pain”, “said the complaint.
Suzanne Gelinskey was found unanswered “on the floor in the hall near the front entrance with apparent injuries and bloodless clothes”, according to the complaint.
“Gelinskey said that he had searched a hammer at home because he was going to kill his father when he came home from work but could not find a fairly big one,” added the complaint.
Reed Gelinskey’s father Ryan Gelinskey appeared at the hearing of his son’s court by Zoom but made no statement.
Gelinskey A been accused of Intentional homicide in the first degree and faces a perpetuity imprisonment if it is found guilty.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday and the Gelinskey deposit was set at $ 1 million. He was also authorized to control contact with his father.
Erik and Lyle Menendez stayed in prison for 30 years after their parents’ shotgun murders, Jose and Kitty Menendez, on August 20, 1989, in their manor by Beverly Hills, who drew public attention.
The prosecutors argued that the Menendez brothers had killed their parents for financial purposes. The lawyers of the brothers never disputed that the couple had killed their parents, but argued that they had acted in self -defense after years of emotional and sexual abuse by their father.
After an initial trial, the brothers were found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
Los Angeles County Prosecutors Registered resentment For the brothers in October 2024, arguing that they had demonstrated good conduct and rehabilitation in prison. They have the support of their family and the lawyers presented new evidence of the sexual abuse that the brothers allege that they suffered from their father.
In February, lawyers for the Menendez brothers said that California Governor Gavin Newsom had ordered the State’s conditional liberation commission to investigate If the brothers would present a risk to the public if they were released after almost three decades in prison for the murder in 1989 of their parents.
The state’s legal standard for parole is whether an inmate has an unreasonable risk for public security. This must be determined before the governor can make a decision on switching.
On March 10, the District Prosecutor of the County of Los Angeles, Nathan Hochman, said that he asked the court to withdraw the request from the previous district prosecutor so as not to have a fight against the Menendez brothers, calling their allegations of “lies”.
“We are ready to move forward” with the hearing concerning their renowned case, said Hochman at a press conference on Monday. “However, we ask the court to withdraw the request from the previous district prosecutor in the area of non-compliance, because we believe that there are legitimate reasons and the interests of justice justify this withdrawal.”
The renowned hearing is scheduled for March 20 and 21.
– With files from the Associated Press
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