The mother was found dead on a driveway on East Logsden Road in Siletz, Oregon (Picture: Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office)
A man allegedly drove a stake through his mother’s throat believing she was a vampire and was biting him at night.
Robert Bruce Poe, 56, was found standing in a driveway covered with blood on his hands and clothing and holding a bloody purse and letter belonging to his mom, police said.
The body of his mother, Judy Poe, 79, was discovered with a ‘large round stake which appeared to be the broken end of a garden tool protruding from her throat’, state court records obtained by KOIN. She had ‘sustained injuries from blunt force trauma to the head’.
Poe reportedly told sheriff’s deputies that his mother was a vampire who ‘poked him at night and he would often wake with blood on his sheets’. He claimed that he killed her in self-defense.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to the gruesome stabbing on Tuesday (Picture: Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office)
He had initially called the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office shortly before 9.30pm on Tuesday to confess he ‘accidentally killed his mom’.
His mother was found on the gravel next to a 2004 gold Chrysler PT Cruiser and pronounced dead by deputies at 9.55pm that night on East Logsden Road in Siletz, Oregon.
Poe was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and using a weapon unlawfully. He was arraigned on Wednesday and is scheduled to return to court on March 20. He is being held without bail.
He has a lengthy rap sheet since 1986 with arrests and charges around harassment, theft, driving under the influence, possessing a methamphetamine and driving without insurance.
Anyone with information on the crime is urged to contact police.
It happened nine months after a 34-year-old man allegedly drowned his mother in a park in New Milford, Connecticut, as a sacrifice to keep demons away. Eric Meagan told police ‘I tried to drown my mom’ because he could not sleep the night before with demons tormenting him. He added that the demons did not tell him to kill his mother.
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