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Henry M. HEEPE

 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

   
 
 
Classification: Homicide
Characteristics: Mental hospital patient - Found in bed with pieces of his mother's corpse confessed to her killing, telling police she was a "vampire devil" and that he "cut out both of her hearts"
Number of victims: 1
Date of murder: November 9, 1994
Date of arrest: Same day
Date of birth: 1944
Victim profile: Barbara Heepe, 77 (his mother)
Method of murder: Stabbing with knife
Location: Akron, Ohio, USA
Status: Found not guilty by reason of insanity. Committed suicide at the Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital on November 7, 1995
 
 
 
 
 
 

Henry M. Heepe, 51, mental hospital patient from Akron found not guilty by reason of insanity in the killing & cannibalizing of his mother, Barbara, 77, kills self at the Central Ohio Psychiatric Hospital. (Plain Dealer 08 Nov, 1995).

 
 

Ohio man killed, cut up his mother, police say

Gainesville Sun

November 10, 1994

Akron, Ohio - A man found in bed with pieces of his mother's corpse confessed to her killing, telling police she was a "vampire devil" and that he "cut out both of her hearts."

Henry M. Heepe told police he beat his 77-year-old mother, Barbara Heepe, to death, then stabbed her and removed her organs.

Officers found some of the body parts in a pan on a stove, and police Capt. Paul Callahan said investigators believe Heepe may have eaten some of the others. His mouth was smeared with blood when he was arrested, Summit County Coroner William Cox said wednesday.

"I killed my mother", Heepe was quoted as saying in a police report. "She was a vampire devil. I cut ut both of her hearts. It took her five hours to die".

An autopsy that lasted all day Wednesday showed Heepe's mother had been beaten around the face, head, chest and arms and strangled, Cox said. She was stabbed and disembowled after she died, the coroner said.

Heepe, 50, was charged with murder. His arraignment was delayed while he was hospitalized Wednesday for treatment of diabetes.

Police entered the Heepe home Monday night after a neighbor, Mary Hendrickson, said a boy raking leaves reported hearing a woman cry for help.

As officers checked the house, they heard a man chanting, "Die, die, die," the Akron Beacon Journal reported Wednesday. They said Heepe had barricade himself in a bedroom and refused to come out.

After trying for more than an hour to talk him into leaving the room, they finally forced open the door and discovered him nude on the bed, surrounded by pieces of the corpse.

 
 

Son Kills 'Vampire Devil' Mom

November 10, 1994

Henry Heepe, 50, told police he beat his mother to death and cut out her organs because "she was a vampire devil". Heepe, 50, was found face down in bed next to pieces of his mother's corpse as some of her body parts bubbled on a pot on the stove.

He was found innocent by reason of insanity of beating his mother to death in 1994, stabbing her repeatedly, then removing her organs and possibly eating some of them. (Police said their search of the house did not locate all her organs.) "I killed my mother," Heepe said. "She was a vampire devil. I cut out both of her hearts. It took her five hours to die."

Police found 77-year old Barbara Heepe dead in a bedroom of the house she shared with her son. They had received a call from a neighbor who had been unable to reach her. Heepe has been unstable since his younger brother committed suicide in 1970 and he followed his brother's lead by committing suicide while in police custody.

 
 

Henry Heepe, found in bed with pieces of his mother's corpse, confessed to her killing, telling cops she was a "vampire devil", and that he had "cut out both her hearts"...

Happy Henry had beaten his 77-year old mother Barbara to death, stabbed her repeatedly and removed her organs. Cops found some of the body parts in a pan on the stove, and believe he ate other parts (his mouth was smeared with blood). He claimed it took his victim "five hours to die"...

Cops entered the home after neighbors heard a woman pleading for help. As officers walked in, they heard Hank chanting "die, die, die". Our hero had barricaded himself inside a bedroom and refused to come out.

After more than an hour of negotiating to no avail, cops burst in and discovered him naked on the bed, surrounded by pieces of mom. He was apparently *engaging in sex with a section of bowel*.

The lower half of the victim's stomach, her right eye, her spleen and piece of small intestine were missing. A knife found in the bathroom left open the possibility Heepe may have flushed the missing parts down the toilet.

Heepe was a patient at Akron General Hospital, who declined to discuss his condition. It's said he'd been unstable since his brother's suicide in 1970.

"It's a dirty shame", said a neighbor. "She took care of her son"

-- and he returned the favor...

(Source: AP)

 

 

 
 
 
 
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