Reports say a Wisconsin teenager who claimed that his mother's rage of murder was inspired by a Netflix documentary he saw about the Menendez brothers, claims he was inspired by a Netflix documentary he saw about the Menendez brothers.
15-year-old Reed Gelinski was tested as an adult in the murder of her mother, Suzanne Gelinski on March 4th and was murdered at her home in Caledonia, Wisconsia. According to criminal charges.
The 15-year-old allegedly sent a photo of his dead mother via Snapchat, lying on his back to the girl.
When officers arrived at the suburban home, Jelinski was in bloody clothes and stepped in front of the house, still clutching a knife.
“She's dead,” he told officers. “She's dead from what I did.”
Just before the murder, Jelinski told the officer that he was watching a documentary about the Menendez brothers on Netflix. This brings to the details of the Grizzly from the 1989 double murder.
Jelinski told officers he had come up with a plan to slaughter his mother while watching the “shotgun scene” in the documentary, the complaint said.
After her teenage mother went to bed, her son hid the sleeping medicine, grabbed a steak knife, and hid a weighted barbell over the sleeve of her shirt, he told officers.
He then invited his mother downstairs to search for his medicine. He told officers that when she turned away, Jelinski was allegedly slammed her over her head with dumbbells.
The teen then thrust his mother onto the floor and jumped over her with a knife in hand, the complaint said.
Gelinskey is said to have stabbed his mother five times in a total of five. He was stabbed three times in the chest and twice in the neck.
In her final breath, the woman asked her son, “Why?” The boy simply replied “pain,” he told officers, the complaint alleges.
Suzanne Gelinski was found to not respond in the foyer and was lying in bloody clothing with multiple stab wounds, the complaint said.
The teenage suspect was taken into custody at the scene and revealed his crazy thought process to the officers during an interview.
Jelinsky also told officers he had the urge to kill his parents when he returned home from school on the day of the brutal incident. He said he plans to kill his father when he comes home from work but he couldn't find a hammer big enough, the complaint alleged.
The teenager claimed he was depressed and was taking his brother's anti-anxiety medication – he told police he took about nine pills on March 4, the complaint said.
The juvenile is charged with first-degree intentional murder and faces life sentence if convicted.
The Menendez brothers have recently boosted the public support significantly following revelations that stem from documentary films and advocacy from well-known celebrities and politicians.
The influencers repeatedly urged legal advocate Kim Kardashian to voicing Lyle and Eric Menendez to be released from prison.
The defense went viral last year, with several documentaries portraying murderous brothers as justifying them in the murder, claiming that Lyle and Eric are revengeing years of sexual abuse at the hands of their father Jose.
The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office has rejected a legal bid to release the brothers, but many want to see the unlimited light of day. That includes California Gov. Gavin Newsom. He ordered the state parole board to investigate whether Eric and Lyle pose a “irrational” public safety risk.
