By Free Republic | Created at 2024-10-30 17:38:32 | Updated at 2024-10-31 03:28:32
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Dying husband, 93, tried to kill wife of 60 years twice because he ‘did not want to leave her alone’: cops
NY Post ^ | 10/30/2024 | Patrick Reilly
Posted on 10/30/2024 9:52:02 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A 93-year-old Florida man allegedly confessed to twice trying to kill his wife of 60 years — because he “did not want to leave her alone” when he died, according to cops.
Helmut Lockner was arrested on Saturday after his wife said he crept up on her watching TV and tried to strangle her with some rope — weeks after he tried to smother her with a pillow, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
Lockner allegedly told detectives he planned to kill himself with the same rope, telling them that he “is dying and did not want to leave his wife alone,” according to an arrest report, which did not detail if the suspect had a terminal illness or was referring to his age.
His wife, who was not identified by police, said he first attempted to kill her two weeks earlier by smothering her with a pillow in bed — telling her then that “he did not want to leave her alone,” according to the arrest report.
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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Local News; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: alone; dying; florida; helmutlockner; husband; kill; marioncounty; norxinthehouse; wife
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Sad or demented?
To: ChicagoConservative27
2 posted on 10/30/2024 9:53:19 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
3 posted on 10/30/2024 9:54:39 AM PDT by vivenne
To: ChicagoConservative27
If that is the real case I get it. These women or men left behind in their old age grieving and helpless. It’s really very sad.
4 posted on 10/30/2024 9:56:03 AM PDT by Beowulf9
To: ChicagoConservative27
Just because someone says something is their motive, it does not mean it is necessarily the real reason.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Florida man.....................
6 posted on 10/30/2024 9:58:02 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Did he ask her first if she minded being left behind? What an awful thing to do.
7 posted on 10/30/2024 10:00:25 AM PDT by Twotone ( What's the difference between a politician & a flying pig? The letter "F.")
To: ChicagoConservative27
Sad and demented as if may seem, we husbands all need to learn to leave our wives alone, and someday forever. Though we certainly hope to meet again on better but different terms.
8 posted on 10/30/2024 10:00:53 AM PDT by Theophilus (covfefe)
To: ChicagoConservative27
telling them that he “is dying and did not want to leave his wife alone,” according to an arrest report, which did not detail if the suspect had a terminal illness or was referring to his age.
9 posted on 10/30/2024 10:05:53 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Probably had a girlfriend.
10 posted on 10/30/2024 10:06:46 AM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
To: ChicagoConservative27
“I‘ve been at the sheriff’s office for five and a half years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Zach Moore, a sheriff’s office spokesperson, told local outlet WCJB.
might be a first for all of us.
11 posted on 10/30/2024 10:07:16 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
To: ChicagoConservative27
There are two reasons we do anything, the good reason and the real reason. We will likely never know the real reason here.
13 posted on 10/30/2024 10:09:00 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Say what you will about this old codger, you have to be pretty spry to go around trying to murder folks at 93.
14 posted on 10/30/2024 10:10:14 AM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
To: Twotone
“Did he ask her first if she minded being left behind?” My first thought too. Maybe she’s in terrible health herself, or demented, and he truly thought it was the kindest thing to do.
15 posted on 10/30/2024 10:13:02 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
To: KevinB
Or he found out she had a boyfriend.
16 posted on 10/30/2024 10:14:38 AM PDT by KrisKrinkle (c)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Darn. I thought this would be from The Villages, but it’s from Oak Run, a retirement community 10 miles from me. They have black bears roaming the streets after dark....
17 posted on 10/30/2024 10:16:37 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
To: Beowulf9
NO....they have their kids and grandkids and great grandkids.
Euthanasia is no better than abortion.
18 posted on 10/30/2024 10:20:34 AM PDT by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
To: ChicagoConservative27
” ...according to an arrest report, which did not detail if the suspect had a terminal illness or was referring to his age.”
Or ... a much younger girl friend.
19 posted on 10/30/2024 10:21:15 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
To: fidelis; Red Badger; null and void
Say what you will about this old codger, you have to be pretty spry to go around trying to murder folks at 93.
"Florida Man"
20 posted on 10/30/2024 10:24:15 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
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