California dad killed his kids over QAnon and 'serpent DNA' conspiracy theories, feds claim

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California dad killed his kids over QAnon and 'serpent DNA' conspiracy theories, feds claim

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A California surfing school owner who was charged with killing his two children in Mexico is a follower of QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories who thought the children "were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them," federal officials alleged.

Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, was charged Wednesday with foreign murder of U.S. nationals in connection with the death of his 2-year-old son and his 10-month-old daughter, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California. Authorities said Coleman confessed to the killings and told the FBI that he used a spear fishing gun to stab them.

 

A criminal complaint alleges that he told the FBI that he killed his children because he believed they "were going to grow into monsters" and that conspiracy theories led him to believe that his wife had passed down her "serpent DNA" to the children.

 

Forensic technicians at the scene where two young U.S. children were found dead in Rosarito, Mexico, on Monday.Reuters

Coleman's wife, identified only by her initials, contacted Santa Barbara police after her husband had taken the kids out on Saturday but didn't tell her where they were going, the complaint said. She grew concerned after he failed to respond to her messages, and, knowing that her husband didn't have a car seat with him, she called police.

A missing person's report was filed Sunday, and officers asked her to use Apple's Find My iPhone feature to see whether she could find Coleman, the complaint said. The program showed Coleman's last known location in Rosarito, Mexico, it said.

Police alerted the FBI to the investigation as it became a case of suspected parental kidnapping. Coleman was detained Monday after an inspection by border protection agents of his van upon his re-entry into the U.S., where agents didn't see his children and found blood in the vehicle, authorities said.

The complaint alleges that Coleman confessed to the killings upon being interviewed Monday and gave authorities the location of the murder weapon and the discarded bloody clothing. He also identified two bodies recovered by Mexican authorities as those of his children, it said.

A judge ordered that Coleman be held without bond Wednesday and scheduled his arraignment for Aug. 31.

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According to the complaint, Coleman said that he knew what he did was wrong but that "it was the only course of action that would save the world."

"Serpent DNA" is a likely to be a reference to the "lizard people" conspiracy theory, which falsely purports that reptilian aliens secretly run the world and have taken over important positions in government, banking and Hollywood.

 

 

 

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The complaint says Coleman told authorities that he learned about "serpent DNA" through QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories, even though the lizard people conspiracy theory predates both by several decades.

The believers in each conspiracy theory have melded together over the last several years because conspiracy theory influencers and algorithms on social media frequently lump the theories together.

QAnon is a more recent conspiracy theory premised on the belief that a similar global cabal at the top of the U.S. government is secretly murdering and eating children and that Donald Trump was quietly working to defeat them during his time in office.

Anthony Quinn Warner, who bombed his own RV outside an AT&T building in Nashville, Tennessee, on Christmas Day, claimed that lizard people were taking over Hollywood and the U.S. government. Warner died and three other people were injured.

 

 

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Speaking of the Reptoid conspiracy theory, I'm surprised David Icke never hopped onto the QAnon train. 

[Leftfield 2,617]

I can't fathom how far gone someone has to be that would allow them to do something like this to their children. Just makes me want to cry when I think about what those kids went through in their final moments, having no understanding of what was happening and wondering why this person that had always been with them was hurting them.

How can you not fear a world where a parent can do this to those they are genetically programmed to protect? 

[CoffeeTiger 5,135]

1 hour ago, Leftfield said:

I can't fathom how far gone someone has to be that would allow them to do something like this to their children. Just makes me want to cry when I think about what those kids went through in their final moments, having no understanding of what was happening and wondering why this person that had always been with them was hurting them.

How can you not fear a world where a parent can do this to those they are genetically programmed to protect? 

Just a week ago near Huntsville, AL A father shot his son and then himself to death after he learned the mother was filing for full/emergency custody through court. 

 

America has a very bad mental health problem, and doesn't fund or provide the resources to fix it. 

[Leftfield 2,617]

11 minutes ago, CoffeeTiger said:

Just a week ago near Huntsville, AL A father shot his son and then himself to death after he learned the mother was filing for full/emergency custody through court. 

 

America has a very bad mental health problem, and doesn't fund or provide the resources to fix it. 

Just as important, though, is to eliminate the stigma that many still attach to it. That keeps some people from seeking help, even if they could find it.

Edited August 12, 2021 by Leftfield

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We do need Mental Health upgrades.

The police are not Mental Health pros.