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New Milford man drowns mom in river as sacrifice to make demons stop

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Eric Meagan, New Milford drowns mother, Victoria Palmer to make demons stop
Eric Meagan, New Milford, Connecticut man drowns his mother, Victoria Palmer at Harrybrooke River as sacrifice to make demons stop.
Eric Meagan, New Milford drowns mother, Victoria Palmer to make demons stop
Eric Meagan, New Milford, Connecticut man drowns his mother, Victoria Palmer at Harrybrooke River as sacrifice to make demons stop.

Eric Meagan, New Milford, Connecticut man drowns his mother, Victoria Palmer at Harrybrooke River as sacrifice to make demons stop. Said his mother loved him so much, she would have volunteered to die for him. 

A Connecticut man allegedly called police on himself moments after drowning his own mother in a park river earlier this week, telling a 911 dispatcher he sacrificed his mother in a bid to ‘keep the demons away.’

Eric R. Meagan, 34, was arrested and charged on Monday after he called cops to say he had just killed his 56-year-old mom, Victoria Palmer, in a river at Harrybrooke River in New Milford, police said in a press release.

‘My mom’s dead. I killed her,’ Meagan purportedly told the dispatcher in the 911 call.

‘I had to keep the demons away’ 

‘Yeah, I had to. I had to do it to keep the demons away.’

The son claimed dragging his mother into the river on Monday morning and holding her underwater for roughly 10 minutes until she stopped moving.

About 30 minutes later, Meagan called 911 to calmly report his alleged crime.

‘How did you kill her?’ the dispatcher is heard asking.

Meagan responded: ‘In the water.’

Asked if he was still hearing the demons, Meagan told the dispatcher: ‘I was feeling them.’

‘I’m not feeling them now that she’s dead,’ the son added. ‘The demons have been constantly plaguing me.’

Meagan, who stayed on the phone for several minutes as he described the slaying, was taken into custody a short time later after giving police his exact location along the river.

Had previously tried strangling cat to quell demons

His mom was pulled from the water and rushed to the nearby New Milford Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

The The News-Times reported the son allegedly admitting that he had invited his mother to go for a walk in the park with him — something they reportedly did regularly — knowing that he planned on ‘hurting’ her.

Upon reaching the riverbank, the son described how he pushed his mom into the water and putting her in a headlock and holding her beneath the surface for about 10 minutes.

The son later told cops he had been having a ‘hard time for the past couple of weeks’ and that he had sought help for mental health issues. At the time of the mother’s drowning, Meagan had not been taking his anti anxiety medication, court documents stated

Court officials noted Meagan having been in treatment, having no previous record and living at the same New Milford home for the past 10 years, CT Insider reported.

A previous attempt to quell the demons by strangling one of the family’s cats failed according to the man’s attorney.

‘He stated that strangling his cats was his first attempt at making the demons stop but that it was not enough. When asked why he chose his mother, he stated, ‘because I love her the most.’ He stated he feels safe now,’ police wrote in court documents, according to the News-Times. ‘He believed his mother loved him so much she would have been willing to sacrifice herself to save him.’

Meagan was charged with a murder and is being held on a $2 million bond.

The son’s next court appearance is set for July 11.

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