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A 17-year-old wrote in a confession released Thursday that the horror movie remake of "Halloween" gave him the idea to kill his mother and sister.
Jake Evans is on trial for the Oct. 3 slayings of his 15-year-old sister, Mallory, and mother Jami in their upscale Aledo home. The confession was introduced as evidence.
In a four-page written confession to police hours after his arrest, Evans said he had watched the remake of "Halloween" three times earlier that week.
The 2007 Rob Zombie film is about a 10-year-old boy who murders several people and kills a number of others 15 years later.
While watching it, I was amazed at how at ease the boy was during the murders and how little remorse he had," Evans wrote. "Afterward, I was thinking to myself it would be the same for me when I kill someone."
Later, as his mother and sister watched the presidential debate that night, he said he "just sat in the living room thinking about how I was going to kill my family."
He wrote that he got a knife.
"I went back upstairs and kept pacing back and forth imagining killing Mallory," he said. "Thoughts of causing her pain kept entering my mind and were really bothering me. But then I'd think about the times she hurt my feelings."
He later knocked on her bedroom door and asked her to watch the comedy movie "Water Boy."
Then he changed his plans.
"After a while, I thought to myself that if I were to kill my mom and Mallory, I wouldn't want them to feel anything, so I decided to kill them both with the .22 revolver I stole from my Grandpa," he wrote.
He said he thought about it some more.
"I then spent probably over an hour walking nervously around the house thinking how life will never be the same and how I would never see them again," he wrote.
He said he knocked on sister's door again and told her their mother needed her.
"She came out and out of the corner of her eye she saw me pointing the gun at her," he said. "She thought I was joking and told me that I was freaking her out. I shot her in the back and then the head."
'Dreadful and terrifying'
He then went to the study and shot his mother three times.
"In shock, I ran to my room and was screaming at the top of my lungs that I am really messed up and that I killed my mom and sister," he wrote.
"As I emptied the shells on my bed, I heard noizes (sic) and realized that Mallory was still alive," he said. "While I loaded the gun back up, I was shouting that I was sorry and then ran as fast as I could to kill her. I made sure my mom was dead and shot her again in the head."
He said he placed the gun on the counter and called 911.
Sheriff's deputies found the bodies of his mother and sister and arrested him.
In the last lines of his confession, he wrote: "I know now though that I'm done with killing. It's the most dreadful and terrifying thing I will ever experience. And what happened last night will haunt me forever."
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Too sad for words! America loves violence as entertainment. Our kids and our society in general will continue to see more horror. We are seeing only the beginning of the results of kids who have been raised with continual violence being accessible on TV, movies, and video games.
We've only just begun to see the effects of our complacency.
Amazing how the same people who blame the guns when a psychotic person kills people want to blame the illness when violence in video games and movies is clearly implicated. How about an executive order to control the content of media? No? Different amendment, different attitude.
It appears that more people are concerned about their right to enjoy explicit violence as entertainment, than they are about the kids in our society! With that attitude, America is doomed. Hollywood pumps it out and we just take it. Way past time for the American people to take control of what is happening to America and to America's children.
We've only just begun to see the effects of our complacency toward the kids in America. Stay tuned, folks, more to come!
APR, please explain all human violence throughout history in terms of modern media, which has existed for barely more than a century.
You're engaging in the "Good Old Days Fallacy." Those good old days never existed. Pick up a history book once in a while.
The US is more peacable now than ever. Explain that.
Kynetick, this kid said the movie affected him. He was going to use a knife if he did not have a gun. That other idiot who killed his whole family watched violent video games all day. If there is a connection, as there must be, don't you suppose that addressing it might be in order? No matter history - use your head. If you had to have someone watch your own kids, would you want it to be somebody who plays violent video games as a hobby, or someone who doesn't? No difference? Really? I am not saying there is a connection, but there appears to be, and logic tells me a correlation would exist. But, liberals will fight it all day long. Even if it costs lives, just to make a point. Let's not let a mentally ill person have access to guns - I agree. But how about let's start thinking about the affect of media on the mentally ill - by perhaps controlling access? If gun control - why not strict media/video/television/movie control? Why not? You do not want some sick @!$%# to be able to buy a gun, but you want him, or her, to be able to buy sadomasochistic porn? Extremely violent video games? How bout snuff films? @!$%# history, we are dealing with now.
The country has done a fantastic job of dumbing down it's people, this is why democracies fail because the populous is ignorant, emotional and easily played. Wake up people this is more corrupt incompetent laws made by corrupt incompetent leaders, when are we going to hold them responsible and stop letting them pass the hot potato of blame back and forth while they do nothing but screw us? If all you are willing to choose is corruption then all you will get is corruption and there will be no hope and no change. My hopes and dreams is that people of the US will wake up and fire all of our so called leaders that have been selling the country out. To develop a unity and a desire to work together to build our nation rather then let a select few make massive profits destroying it.To vote responsibly and put people in office that will serve the country over special interests and throw the ones serving special interests over the country out. My fear is that nothing will change and all the guns in the world will not protect us from ourselves. Export jobs for slave labor and the freedom to pollute your heart out , import desperate people for slave labor, destroy your schools and teachers, dumb the people down, feed them violence and filth, create laws that make otherwise law abiding people criminals, fill your prisons with non violent criminals and send the violent criminals back out on the streets because of overcrowding. Don't forget to make guns a right and don't require any training, testing, licensing or registration. Also make it almost impossible for the mentally ill to receive treatment until they commit some horrific crime. Sooner or later you will have the public begging to take all of their rights away just to be safe, then bingo you have total control.
@Lee Blake
Yes. that is what he said. It doesn't mean he was serious, or that we should pay any attention to it. He could easily have been saying it for the effect, the "shock value" of it; or he could have been futilely trying to prepare an insanity defense, despite the fact that such a claim has yet to result in a verdict of insanity. You're reading a lot more into such comments than they deserve.
How many depictions of violence had this kid seen in his lifetime? Likely thousands, tens of thousands. But seeing this one movie suddenly caused him to murder his family? And you can seriously buy that? Remember: he's not claiming a lifetime of seeing horror movies caused this; just the one movie. You folks are the ones extrapolating that to include all depictions of violence. And you're wrong to do so. Ever seen Saw or Hostel? So have thousands of other people, who've never killed anyone. If one violent movie explains this kid's actions, how do hundreds of violent movies explain the vast majority of non-actions? Most of us don't kill people, and most of us have seen a lot of damned violence.
No. It's already been addressed repeatedly. Violent crime has been GOING DOWN since the introduction of video games, especially the violent ones! Do some research if you really give a crap about this, and aren't just typing to see your own special little screed in print.
I play violent video games. My kids (now in their 30s) have played them most of their lives. Their friends have all played them. None of us have ever murdered anyone, or even assaulted anyone. I was always competent to watch my own children, in spite of being the very sort of person you're holding up as an "example." So yeah, I'd go with the violent-games player, because that's just one aspect of the person, and I'd hope like hell I'd know a lot more about them than just that, to know if they should be watching my kids, yeah. Jeezum crow, what a stupid question! Are you always so shallow? "You may be a Nobel Peace Prize winner, but you play Call of Duty, so you can't babysit Junior!" Seriously, that's an argument??
Please. You've never met logic. If you had, you'd know you are grandly engaging in a causation/correlation fallacy, right before our eyes. Now, when you find out what that is, get back to us. Until then, you and logic have yet to be introduced.
You are putting people into a box of your own making, and then ascribing what you think they'd do to those boxed in people, who don't, in actuality, exist.
Myself, I would fight you all day long, to keep you from taking away my right to enjoy the media of my free choice, until you have proven with sufficient evidence that there is any significant connection, and that removing any media will actually have any effect. IF you could prove that, you might have a point. But you can't prove it, because it isn't the case. So yeah, I'm going to fight you on it. Anyone with any sense, who values their rights, would do the same.
This is called "shifting the goalposts," and is another logical fallacy. What the hell does porn of any kind have to do with this kid? Don't drag in other media to help you score a point; stick with the media in question--a specific movie (not even all movies in this case; just the one). I'm not going to have a separate argument about porn; it's not the topic in any way at all. Stick to your argument, or abandon it as ridiculous, as you should.
Snuff films are already illegal. So what would you like us to do about them? Make them "super-duper seriously I mean it" illegal?
I mention history, because you can pretty quickly find some seriously atrocious and horrifying events committed in it, done by individuals whose idea of "violent media" was little more than listening to a priest describe the horrors of hell during a Sunday mass.
If violent media inspires violence, then what inspired violence before we had modern media?
Could it possibly be that this kid is simply irrational, and no "trigger" was actually necessary?
Americans have become real pros at blaming everything but the actual cause: PEOPLE. We resist accepting responsibility for our own mistakes, or making others do so for theirs; we just have to find something else to blame!
Start with the people. You won't have to go much further. I promise.
Ignore history and you are doomed to repeat it. It is actual events in history that can inspire horror movies. Ed Gein inspired Chainsaw Massacre. Even if the movie was banned or never created, you CAN'T stop Ed Gein's story being published in books or erase what he did.
Agreed. Virginia Tech was an example. He didn't like playing violent videogames (unless you counted Sonic the Hedgehog), he didn't really like violent movies or music. He totally threw all these 'blame the media' types for a loop.
@!$%#, I have more of a chance of being labeled a possible 'risk' than he did if you want to go for watching, reading, playing, listening violence in the media than he did.
here is a bone-chilling example of the risks of exposing children and immature adolescents to diets of horror movies and violent video games. while this kid ends by saying he's been cured of the desire to kill and would never do it again, i wouldn't depend on that and i hope the law doesn't either if parole is ever considered.
You're a fool. This sociopathic kid saw himself in the sociopathic character of the film. No one but someone with an already sick mind associates with the psycho in a film.
Director/Producer Quentin Tarantino said no way Jose.
Weapon of choice: GUN! Point, click, DEAD!
This is why we need to ban horror movies, violent movies, sexually-explicit movies, and movies that feature flag burning, internet gambling, and "gay" couples. It's all filth that needs to be removed from our culture.
Signed,
A True Republican
More like a "true socialist." Dems are already crying foul.
Banning and censorship aren't Democratic or Socialist ideas.
What about banning GUNS, The kid couldn't bring himself to kill with a knife(like in the movie) The GUN made it easy!
What about them? Can you actually think, or do you just shove everyone and everything into labelled boxes, to eliminate the dreadful chore of cognition?
Few people of any party or ideology want to ban guns. Don't buy the hype or the empty Slacktivism rhetoric.
Above all, use that tuna loaf stuffed between your ears.
That's cracker logic for you. Tuna loaf?! LMAO! Trying to sound educated when you're not.
I'm not? Darn. Guess I'd better make the university take back their diploma, then.
Unless it's the University of Cracker-land.
Yeah, I didn't think you were bright enough to see what you're doing. This discussion isn't about me. My education or employment are not the point here. That's called an Ad Hominem fallacy: it's when you try to attack your opponent, instead of his argument. It's a lousy way to argue.
My point was that banning and censorship ARE NOT Democratic or Socialist ideals as you claim.
Democrats don't like censorship or banning things: the best way to find out who the idiots are is to give them freedom of speech, as you are now so amply proving.
Socialist ideology embraces sharing...sharing everything, with everyone. It's impossible to share ideas you've censored, or banned. So these things aren't socialist ideals, either.
Now, my education and employment don't matter to the above points. What matters is: can you counter them? If not, shut up.
Children gunned down in their classroom! That should be enough of an argument. Why don't you give your speech to the parents of those six and seven year-olds from Newtown.
Because they aren't the ones posting total nonsense here about supposed Democratic or Socialist ideals, that's why. You can save the "think of the children!!!" fallacy for someone without a brain. It doesn't do a thing for anyone else.
The gun lobby told us that guns keep us safe and that if we have more guns we'll be even safer. Well, we have over 300 million guns in private hands and we're the most dangerous industrialized country on earth! If we don't do something to stop this cycle of firearm violence we're doomed as a nation. The killing videos our young people are obsessed with are becoming reality. What have we done?
Show me the stats which support your allegation that we are the most dangerous industrialized country on earth.
We are doomed as a nation because the government is teaching the people that to work hard and prosper is evil, but to be lazy and count on others to provide for you is the American way. That is the path to doom.
No one, despite your hollow claims, is teaching anyone to be lazy.
Counting on others, however, is what SOCIETY DOES, you nimrod. If you don't like it, I know of some lovely caves you can live in, all by yourself.
Something tells me you don't work.
Something tells me you can't think.
If it's that bad Lee, just off yourself. I'm sure your a gun-lover.
Raise the children to have no respect for themselves or any one else, and no self control, add in no consequences and instant gratification and these kind of killings are the result. I grew up in a different world. You had to work for what you wanted. If a child wanted a game or some toy, they did whatever chores or other work their parents gave them, earned their allowance or other money, saved up and purchased the game or toy with their own money. If mom or dad said no, that was the end of the discussion. How many times do we see a parent giving in to a screaming child, just to shut them up and not embarrass them in the store?A generation or 2 ago that kind of behaviour would get nothing but a swat on the butt and a quick trip to the car. I don't think it is the availability of gun today that is different. We had guns around then as well. Many were just as if not more dangerous as any today. And purchasing them had less restrictions. You could buy a gun in the local hard ware store with cash and no questions asked. So what has changed? I think it is the attitude of society and the media that plasters a shooters name all over. Just a thought.
So true old dog much of it is poor parenting, then you have parents with mentally ill kids that either can't get help or are in denial. We also have a media the glorifies these acts as well as a culture of violence in this country. That is why we see so many copycats, too many people don't want to take responsibility with their children or their leaders. To vote responsibly and put people in office that will serve the country over special interests and throw the ones serving special interests over the country out. My fear is that nothing will change and all the guns in the world will not protect us from ourselves
@Alchemist-8 "Oh yeah and the assault rifle's hmmm.. Look back to the late 70's The gangs had Mack 10 machine pistols that were fully automatic, they had Uzis which were fully automatic. These were and are non legal weapons. Weapons that John Q. Public could not get a hold of but the criminals could."
You failed to mention that those gang-bangers with the machine pistols commonly used them in drive-by shootings related to turf wars and drugs. Oh, and they were notoriously poor shots because of their lack of practice and the notorious inaccuracy of those firearms.
So here we have a young adult of sufficient age to know the difference between right and wrong who steals a .22 revolver and shoots his mother and sister and then has to reload to make sure one of his victims is actually dead. It sure wasn't the firearm which whispered into his ear saying "Take me and kill your family."
And to the poster who stated that the victims would have been alive if he had used a knive.....well, my opinion is that you simply haven't got a clue.
I haven't read all of the comments, but based on the ones I have read, I am surprised nobody is calling for that young man's immediate execution. To the contrary, excuses are being created to explain why he committed cold-bloodied murder. Amazing!
Welcome to Obamanation. I wonder if the gun grabbers will want to ban movies now, too?
This kid doesn't seem to realize he's going to jail. When he says he was thinking about how everything would change, he was only thinking about his family not being there, not his own future which no longer exists. Even when he says he knows he'll never kill again because it was so awful, the real reason he won't kill again because he'll be in prison for the rest of his life (hopefully), he would absolutely kill again. It's BS to blame a movie.
Pre-meditated, or not, when a person does such a thing as this, how can that person be considered to be sane? Normal, civil human interactions do not include killing that is not associated with survival or protection. Anyone who does so is a threat to the larger society.
bull corn. the little twerp is from a Methodist family in Aledo, TX. I'm betting one of his meth fiend buddies put him up to it.
Stella, Have you ever been to Aledo? I have. there's more people with track lines up their arms than people with stellar track records. Killing is more the norm than the exception, especially when money or drugs are involved.
Koatz, I'm not calling for his execution simply because I'm sure he won't get it. He's not been on Parker County's Most Wanted list, at least prior to this. Execution usually means you crossed the Sheriff Dpt. too many times there.
Man up panzy!!! You make me sick! Your beautiful mom and sister are gone forever and the world is stuck with you!
Bull@!$%#! He's a goddamned liar and a coward, too. Stop trying to blame the movie. When did society become such pussies? She hurt my feelings...Whaaa Whaaa Whaaa! So now I'm gonna kill her. What a bunch of weakling pukes. Kids now days just don't know how to cope with real life. They get rejected for a date or their siblings give them grief and they immediately resort to killing. WTF? Get thicker skin you whiney little punk.
Looks like this idiot should've just used the revolver to blow his brains out, because that would've been the least harmful and most intelligent thing to do in his case.
The guy is a real life horror movie and he needs to be removed from circulation.
"I then spent probably over an hour walking nervously around the house thinking how life will never be the same and how I would never see them again," he wrote.
A serial killer would not have empathy. This boy obviously did and felt bad for what he did after. IF you read the above you would all know this.
When I was his age I would make girls cry, simply because I wanted to feel the emotions involved with this. Seeing their sadness, etc. and simply out of boredom. This boy wanted to know what it felt like to KILL his SISTER and MOTHER because of "the emotionless expression on MICHEAL MEYERS"; this has nothing to do with the movie or violence but the EMOTIONS that run through the mind of the action and the consequences.
He knew the consequences and even brought it up before and during his killings. A serial killer would not flinch the way he did. Hes just a teen after all.
By the way when I first seen a movie like that I could'nt believe people in this world actually killed like this, predominantly because of fear. Maybe its because I was in a catholic school and we were socially isolated from the world unlike those public school kids. Either way learning about the bible taught me about the devil.
When I was mad at the world I would take it out on God and I would imagine myself as the devil. The bible, whatever it decides to instill in us, makes us think we need to have some sort of impact in this life. He wanted to see what it was like to kill probably because of how it would affect him, the rest of society around him, his standing in this world and last but not least, his standing in the face of God. Most likely he was mad at being alive. Who really knows? That is just the way young teens think and feel. (Most likely now that he faced the rest of his family and dad, he must feel greatly ashamed and regretful.)
As far as the 25 age, I think what you meant was that if we live to 25, we accept that we want to live this life and we do our best to construct a good long meaningful life, unlike as a teen, where we feel that everything is life or death, we must die an early age, or die to leave an impact, ie. a hero, an abomination, a terrorist, good samaritan or a legend. (Lets not forget we had imaginations and we felt invincible at that age because of lack of knowledge in how precious life really is.)
I feel that the bible at a young age tells us to prepare for things and be a certain way, not always necessarily good. It can give us resentment and a place to point the blame(God). At times it even encourages some to kill themselves because they believe its between them and God and they know where it is they are going, Heaven or Hell, when in reality killing thy self should be the last thing on anyones mind. We grow up long enough to learn better. (Some people never do).
But as far as this killers age take into consideration his age and whom we all were and how we thought because we lacked the experience to know any better. We all have done something then to have been embarrased about or regret. Whether he regret his actions or not, isnt the point to be made here but it should place him on a scale as a killer, but not even close to the worse of the worst.
By the way, drop the movie bit, we all know this kid was old enough to be influenced by alot of other movies. Just because it was mentioned, does not mean that we need to start blaming the movies and games and horror comics and macabre. Those things are no different from a suspensful story in a book with a well explained killing. Its one of those things where we eat meat, but we would not harm an animal if it was in front of us. It just doesn't add up. Maybe if he was under the age of 5, and killed them by accident but cmon.
Halloween and Texas CHAIN are the scariest for me growing up but eveytime I see a knife plunged into someone i think "goodness that has to hurt; I would rather shoot someone than stab them, neither which I will ever do. (Funny, cause when I was young I always wondered how many people I would kill in this life before death, ofcourse I never became a cop, or joined the army, so those options are not in my cards.) But im sure we all had those conversations when we were young. Lets not forget how we thought back then.
I find it funny when people sometimes blame certain movies, but history is where it is at. Texas Chainsaw Massacre was influenced by Ed Gein, a real-life serial killer.
I remember a few years ago, I was mentioning to someone that a man had stabbed his sisters to death, then grabbed another sister, sawed off her head in front of another sister, until he was shot to death by the cops. BONUS: on the the surviving sister's birthday. Some guy actually thought I was talking about some sick movie. I told him that it was a news story on the internet which it what I had read. Forget the movies: real-life is more f-ed up.
I did not know that. I seen the Ed Gein movie. Was that the one where he takes there faces and masks his own? or was that chainsaw? Reminds me also of Jeepers Creepers. While these movies may seem to inspire violence, dont the rest of us take those same sources and use it as an inspiration on as "what not to do" ?
exactly thats why the cartels kill and behead people. its not from freaking Scarface that they learned to do that. Its from imagining the worst way of dehumanising someone.
It is insane that everyone here wants to execute a 17 year old child. Just because a girl can become a prostitute at 18 does not mean that she is an adult. We don't care for life as much as we do until much later on. Older folks should mention this.
How are we any different for wanting to execute this kid than he is for executing his mom and sister. If his mom and sister were here, they would not want any harm on him.
Am I the only one that feels bad for him? I know kids on the street that are worse than him and think of doing things like what he did, just not to their families but to other people simply because they don't know them.
He did what he did and now he is paying for it.
I pushed my grandma when I was 15, in front of my two little cousins 7 and 8 at the time.
My entire family came down on me. All my older cousins wanted to beat me up. Let me tell you I learned my lesson and I no longer have anger issues. Can't say the weed helped with my anger because I was already smoking weed at the time.
Though many years later we are all over what happened and my grandma loves me, I always was her favorite. Her second favorites are the little boy and girl that witnessed me push her.
Are either of them dangerous? or are they wise beyond their years?
They are 16 and 17 now, the age of the killer, and they are both super intelligent.
The boy is good at Call of duty, and if he ever were to do something horrible it wouldn't be because of the game, thats for sure. Maybe a bad case of broken heart or vengeance.
If he wanted to shoot something, there is paintball for that.
Another killer kid from an upscale home in a good neighborhood. This is similar to some others without fatherly supervision and lacking in self control.
good neighborhood? without fatherly control? Mrs. Clinton was right when she used the phrase "It takes a village to raise a child" for the title of one of her books. Aledo has an excellent athletics program, but the vast majority of citizens are in the business of making methamphetamine and "incense" and other hard drugs. No amount of fatherly control or lack thereof is going to keep a teen from dealing with drug users and distributors and various unsavory types when the community is awash with them, especially when elected officials are in on the racket.
Can MSN give some insight of comments of people who actually knew this kid and what he was like at school? There is a lot of missing information here!