Well my point for joining this site was to bring a little different perspective to the table. Someone who suffers schizophrenia, from what I read, hears voices, loses touch with what is real, thinks everyone is out to get them and so on.
If someone who knows that area which I wrote about before on magic, might see a stronger path than what I could find in my free time.
If the accused could hear voices in his head then he may have decided that following magic would be a safe path to follow. After all in his mind the neighbors were poisoning the water. On top of that his delusions at work. So he may of thought that magic was the only thing he could trust (those voices)
So if someone very knowledgable in the area of magic / spells agreed and said that this is what he was following or thought he was (moon stages and magic). Due to the fact that he could not trust anyone in the physical world, after losing his job, supposed husband, etc.
The voices may of told him that he needed to make sacrifice to some entity so that in 2020 he could get his life back together.
If something along those lines were true then it very much could be possible that he premeditated this crime by the voices he heard.
Nothing surprises me, no, nothing should surprise me anymore. But every so often I become reminded. Just like this crime.
I talked through a personal friend that I grew up with who talked directly to the source. While messaging me the words horrific, painful and suffering were used to describe what the victim had endured in that basement. Then a cold chill came across me.