Man also chopped off his hand.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: A man in Phoenix, Ariz. who confessed to gruesomely decapitating his wife and her two dogs last month informed authorities he was attempting “to get the evil out,” according to court documents obtained by Reuters.
Kenneth Dale Wakefield, 43, admitted to police during an interview that he had stabbed and decapitated his wife, Trina Heisch, 49, on July 25. Police say he then gouged out his own eye and chopped off his hand.
Wakefield has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of animal cruelty.
Court records reveal that Wakefield let out a howl in court after prosecutors described the crime to him, reported the Arizona Republic. He had been released from a state hospital for mental illness months prior to the crime and had been smoking the synthetic drug “spice” and marijuana prior to instigating the bloodbath.
According to the Daily Mail, in November 2014 a state psychiatric board issued an order for county prosecutors to try to extend his stay. The board’s chairwoman has said the panel did everything it could in the case to ensure community safety.
Wakefield was approved for release 10 months ago by the psychiatric review board based on a belief that his mental illness was in remission and that he wasn’t dangerous if he lived in a residential treatment program.
Heisch also had a history of mental illness and violence. A judge deemed her “guilty, except insane” — Arizona’s insanity plea — on charges of attempted second-degree murder for the stabbing of her 15-year-old son while he was sleeping in January 2000.