Suspect Detailed a Double Murder in Stark Detail, Court Papers Say
NEW YORK TIMES
'A Kentucky man charged with murdering a Connecticut couple in their home on Thanksgiving morning confessed in graphic detail, saying in a statement shortly after he was arrested that he savagely beat the couple to death, then walked around their house in a daze of disbelief because he "could not believe the brutal act that had just occurred," according to court documents unsealed Monday.'
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IN A LETTER TO THE NEW YORK TIMES ON THIS STORY FROM DR.N.H. LEHRMAN:
This is my analysis of a situation described in today's New York Times. It
may well be still another SSRI-evoked murder. We don''t know, but should
certainly ask about it.
More anti-depressant murders?
The influence of psychotropic drugs upon a young mental patient may be a
cause of his vicious, motiveless butchering of an elderly stranger couple.
As described in the Dec. 25 New York Times (p. B-5), twenty-year-old
Alexander Gray, psychiatrically hospitalized involuntarily last summer, and
apparently treated psychiatrically since then, confessed to the brutal
murder of the Connecticut couple on Thanksgiving morning. They had allowed
him into their house to make a phone call. He told the police that after
killng them, he walked around for a while in disbelief because he could
not believe the brutal act that had just occurred.
Gray1s father is a Louisville, Kentucky, family medicine physician, and his
mother is a psychiatrist. Last July 27, after his father filed papers to
hospitalize him involuntarily, the police took him to the University of
Louisville Hospital. He was then transferred to a private mental health
center, at which he agreed on Aug. 1 to remain voluntarily. The Times did
not know how long he stayed or when he was released.
The day before Thanksgiving, Gray left Kentucky by car, but he crashed that
vehicle in Pennsylvania. He continued to New York City by bus, and then took
a train to Brewster NY, where he was met by a cousin who lives there, not
far from the victims1 home. Strolling the neighborhood the next morning,
Gray met his male victim, who was walking his dog.
After the murders, Gray took his victim1s car keys and $10 from his wallet.
Just hours later, he was arrested after crashing the car into the guard-rail
of a nearby interstate highway. His hands and boots were bloody. He then confessed fully to the murders.
The internal psychological pressures which impelled him to try to drive from
Kentucky to New York in one day, his erratic driving - two wrecks in two
days, and the gross brutality involved in his purposeless murders, together
suggest that he suffered from that total loss of impulse control sometimes
occurring in association with psychotropic drugs, and with
SSRI/anti-depressants, such as Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and others, in
particular. Follow-up should therefore include Gray's medication history.
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