The disturbing prison acts of father accused of killing his kids 'because they had serpent DNA'

Matthew Taylor Coleman, the California begetter accused of sidesplitting his 2 children with a spearfish weapon aft believing that they had serpent DNA, has continued to harm himself down bars — and authorities are seeking to involuntarily administer antipsychotic drugs to reconstruct his competency to basal trial. 

Coleman, present 43, was treated for injuries past period aft helium slammed his caput into the wall, the Daily Mail has learned. He had bitten his tongue. 

The erstwhile surf teacher has repeatedly attempted to harm himself, according to tribunal documents. 

Both the prosecution and the defence concede that helium has slammed his caput into a toilet, repeatedly chopped his arms and legs, and punched himself successful the look implicit and over. 

Coleman is connected termination watch, and authorities person removed astir unsafe objects from his cell. 

Things person gotten truthful atrocious that some the prosecution and defence person agreed to a closed-door proceeding connected April 15 to sermon the ineligible issues of medicating him against his will. 

Coleman, who is being held astatine an undisclosed national situation successful confederate California volition be the proceeding via teleconference. 

United States District Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo ordered the prosecution to taxable a projected attraction program for Coleman past month. 

The program has been sealed from nationalist record, but household members accidental that it includes antipsychotic drugs. 

'He is connected immoderate dense medicine now,' says a comparative of Coleman's wife, Abby, who near California aft the killings and is surviving successful Texas with her family. 'I don't cognize however overmuch it has helped yet, but earlier the treatment, helium was babbling a lot, not making immoderate sense. The Matthew we knew and loved was gone.'

 Those adjacent to Coleman judge that helium had a psychotic interruption successful the summertime of 2021, changing him from a devoted household antheral to idiosyncratic who was capable to perpetrate unspeakable unit against his ain kids. 

The Colemans were packing for a household camping travel successful August 2021 erstwhile authorities allege that helium abruptly loaded his 2 young children Kaleo, 2, and Roxy, 10 months, into his sprinter van and drove distant from their location successful Santa Barbara, Calif. 

Abby Coleman repeatedly tried to telephone her hubby to inquire wherever helium had gone, but helium did not reply the phone.  

Authorities allege that Coleman drove the children implicit the borderline into Mexico and checked into a edifice hotel, wherever helium spent 2 days holed up successful his room. . 

Then, authorities say, Coleman drove the kids to a ranch, wherever helium allegedly stabbed them aggregate times with a spearfishing gun. He returned to his edifice a fewer hours aboriginal earlier attempting to transverse backmost into the U.S. 

But earlier Coleman could transverse the border, a Mexican husbandman made the gruesome find of the 2 children's lifeless bodies. He contacted Mexican authorities who contacted the U.S. Consulate. 

Coleman was arrested astatine the borderline arsenic helium tried to transverse backmost into the USA.  

According to an FBI ailment obtained by the Daily Mail, Coleman allegedly told authorities that helium was motivated by conspiracy theories. A hunt of his telephone showed that helium had accessed dozens of connection boards and forums that perpetuated QAnon beliefs of evil influences successful almighty places. 

In the complaint, peculiar cause Jennifer Bannon wrote that Coleman said helium was 'enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories' and that helium spent hours 'researching' them each day. 

'He got precise into conspiracy theories,' a puerility person of Coleman's tells the Daily Mail. 'It became thing that helium spent a batch of clip and intelligence abstraction on.'  

But Coleman did not simply judge the conspiracy theories astir strangers; helium told authorities erstwhile helium was arrested thgar believed that the evil had infiltrated his ain family. 

'He said visions and signs revealed his wife, A.C. [Abby Coleman], possessed serpent DNA ([He] mentioned that helium was not definite if his woman was a shapeshifter) and had passed it onto his children and that each things were pointing to the thought that his children person corrupted DNA that volition dispersed if thing is not done astir it,' reads the affidavit.

'M. Coleman stated that helium believed that his children were going to turn into monsters, truthful helium had to termination them' Bannon wrote. 

Coleman was indicted connected execution charges and is eligible for the decease punishment if convicted. 

He has pleaded not blameworthy to the charges; the nationalist defender's bureau has not returned The Daily Mail's calls for comment.