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Teen Who Blamed Devil For The Murder Of Child And Cellmate Pleads Not Guilty

March 21, 2012 at 2:33 pm by Morbid

Las Vegas, NV –Last year I posted about Carl Guilford, the teenager who claimed the devil made him suffocate his 6-year-old cousin to death and then later stab his cellmate to death with a pencil. On Monday, he pleaded not guilty.

His attorney, Deputy Public Defender Norman Reed, intends to argue that his client is not guilty by reason of insanity even though his client was determined to be sane enough to stand trial.

For those of you who may have missed this story when we reported it last August, Guilford, then 18-years-old, was arrested and charged with suffocating his 6-year-old cousin. He said that after he killed the boy, the Devil told him “well done.”

After being arrested for that murder, he was placed in a cell at the Clark County Detention Center with Francesco Sanfilippo, a 39-year-old who had gotten busted possessing child pornography.

A few weeks later, Guilford attacked Sanfilippo as he sat at a table and began stabbing the man in the neck with a pencil. Guilford would be found sitting on the top bunk of his blood-splattered cell sporting a blank stare. His dead cellmate was nearby, covered in a white sheet.

Guilford would first claim he killed the man because he had grabbed his ass, but then later said that the Devil told him to kill Sanfilippo or he was going to make Guilford kill himself.

“Two homicides under these set of circumstances could not have happened, but, for this young man’s mental illness, I believe, that will be the appropriate finding for the court,” Reed said when explaining why he’s seeking the not guilty by reason of instantly plea.

The mother of the boy Guilford killed told police that Guilford began acting strange after smoking marijuana laced with an unknown substance, often speaking about angels, demons, Illuminati, and other such nonsense like psychics and Ouija boards.

Tags: Carl Guilford, Crime, Devil, Illinois, Stabbing

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sugarpie

Yea, well even if “the devil” made him do it, he still did it and it makes him GUILTY. If I were insane enough to kill anyone, I would be afraid to not be locked up.
Cory

I wonder if it was a number 2 pencil, or remember them big ass black pencils in grade school.
http://tothechest.com Pete Puma

Morbid, seriously, you need to stop whispering in this poor kid’s ear.
http://twitter.com/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

That’s probably the pencil that it was. Nothing could break those mini logs. Remember the painful lumps that they would leave on the side of your little fingers?
http://twitter.com/icyspring6 okYeah

to the writer: you crack me up~
but i don’t consider angels, demons, and illuminati to be nonsense.
DangerousKindOfSnark

Fortunately, I am chaotic evil so when the devil tells me to kill someone I buy them a frosty ice cream treat. Yea, take that devil, no one tells me what to do!
Mamma

I stabbed a kid in the arm in 5th grade with a pencil and the pencil led is still there 20 years later.

Random? I don’t think so at all.
Cory

I do remember those lumps, Sadly you grow up and still have to deal with lumps. lol
Andy P

Remember pencil fighting? LOL
http://twitter.com/MrLopezBITCHES Shelby Burns

Whoa whoa whoa wait–stabbed his cellmate to death with a pencil?? How…What kind of pencil??
Texas Ranger

This demon has an excellant con goin on here. He has conned the Public Defender into believing he’s looney-toons, Conned his mamma into blaming his actions on the “mysteriously laced drugs” …that way she is absolved of raising a freakin homocidal maniac. I just hope he don’t get away with conning the jury and they go ahead and light-up his evil punk ass.
Gee

So do you think the the Devil really made him do it? And did he say well done too?
Gee

From writing ” I will not talk in class”
buhbam

I have no doubt that, in his mind, the devil told him to do it. This kid is batshit. Mix that with bad dope and this is what you get.
JGo555

The only reason why he shouldn’t be given the DP is cause he took a paedophile out. Other than that? Away with him!
skyrose

Wait, does anyone else think it might be a bad idea to put an accused pedophile in a cell with someone under the age of like, 35? I mean, I’m not overly concerned about the teenager in this case (child murderers tend to, ahem, put me off), but as an honest question, would a prison bunk, say, an18 year old car thief with a pedophile?
http://twitter.com/AngelsMom0806 Angels Mom

**hangs head in shame** Yep.
ViewerBeware

I wonder if the Devils name is Damien?!?

On a side note I smoked some pot when I was younger and it was laced with something….had me seeing trails and hearing shit for a couple of days. Best sex I ever had though. Trippy shit. After that I stopped smoking for a bit. Started up again a while later and went cold turkey in 2001. Been sober ever since.

I agree this teen shouldn’t have been in a holding cell with a kiddie diddler. That’s like throwing a bunch of urban black kids and skinheads in the same room. Bad mix. As for that pencil….the only thing I can honestly picture is one of those pencils they give you at the library. The little short ones you have to literally pinch to write with. But hey, if you’re determined you can make a shank out of just about anything…
rensuchan

You could kill them by buying them several of those ice cream treats and causing health problems! You’re such a sly one…
onlyme356

The family of the man who was kiilled is filing a 10 million dollar lawsuit?? Guilford should be executed for killing a child, but not before earning a medal for stabbing a pedophile to death with a pencil. That man’s family should be saluting Guilford for doing the family a favor and disposing of their family garbage.
onlyme356

I think this is the kind of stuff they hope for.
http://www.krashthrills.wordpress.com/ Anthony Mandich

Perhaps this young hell-bound whelp of the devil should have stuck with bath salts as his modicum for getting high. Once he partook in the smoking of marijuana laced with the devils dandruff, his life seems to have taken a turn for the worse. Next time try hugs not drugs.
onlyme356

Could it be possible that this young man knew that when he’d be sentenced to prison, he’d probably be killed for harming a child…..so he gets locked up with Chester the Molestor and sees his golden opportunity to somewhat redeem himself on the heirarchy of criminals? That or he believes this will take his insanity case to a more plausible level?
LeaveMeBe

Am I the only one who has noticed that God and Satan seem to be working together? we have all kinds of these “insanity” murderers on this site and they always say one of the two told them to do it. Well, if that’s true, then they are in cahoots.
LeaveMeBe

IDK but for some reason, I keep picturing one of those stubby pencils they give you to keep score when you play putt-putt golf.
Chinchillazilla

Where do people even get the idea that Illuminati are controlling world affairs? I’d say Greece alone makes it pretty obvious there’s no one at the helm of this shit.
malq

I considered his motives as well. If he wanted to claim insanity to get out of killing a 6 year old, he should have done it the first time. Killing a pedo, is a sure ticket to the bigtime within the inmates. But claiming the devil did it… hard to tell. looks like he can’t make up his mind which way he wants to go. Right now the field is wide open.
malq

It doesn’t matter as long as it was dull and unsharpened.
AssWho

A great example of how evil can accomplish goals for good, all with out dirtying any more innocent hands! Or a cycle of karma in rare plain view for humanity to take in, or ignore if you choose….
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1415881786 Tori Sheffer

for real tho laced weed…a wicki stick aka wack attack…getting wet ..
pcp ect…that can come back time and time again u never know when even if u havent done it for years…knew a girl that thought she was on fire at a
party smoked laced weed…ran around naked…screamin
put me out…sad…he will never be the same…yeah on that note he need to be locked up alone….
http://www.facebook.com/JellyBellyMomma Kimberly Hanselman

I totally still have one of my lumps!
http://truecrimereport.com iLLusionS

Sucks that he killed a 6 year old child to get there, but at least he got his cellmate, so he is one and one….
kimbev69

So do i on my middle right finger
kimbev69

Brain freeze is def the devils work
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

Trash should be taken out – not kept in a closet.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

“Illuminati”
They are using a different name now – but a few individuals are in fact controlling America covertly;they control the major banks, and our President is only a puppet/figurehead.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

You can not have good without having evil;for one to exist,you must have the other.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

“Been sober ever since.”

Congrats.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

Anything can be a weapon – you can kill a person with a tiny ashtray even.
LuvsHorror

That damn devil sure has been busy…
pmangelaj

OMG I read DD everyday and I just knew I’d see someone featured on here that I knew eventually! I went to high school with Francesco and kept in contact with him up until a couple years ago. He started getting into some weird stuff and kinda disappeared. My last couple conversations with him went in odd directions of him telling me about his sex with men n stuff. Obviously his interests werent limited to men! Aside for all that, he was truely a really nice guy. bummer…
wyrosjr

It’s called the super rich.
Tenbux

“..often speaking about angels, demons, Illuminati, and other such nonsense like psychics and Ouija boards.”
Ah, a Tea Party supporter! Mystery solved.
http://profile.yahoo.com/O5Y43CHKHZHOKK2GLPPDQP3VZ4 Jessica

What was the name of that movie? All I remember is “death by teacup”. lol
http://profile.yahoo.com/O5Y43CHKHZHOKK2GLPPDQP3VZ4 Jessica

What was the name of that movie? All I remember is “death by teacup”. lol
http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

Chronicles of Riddick
Athena

Melissa?

No, seriously. When I was in 5th grade, a classmate (Melissa) stabbed another classmate (Missy) in the hand with a pencil while on a field trip. The lead is still there. And it was anything but random.
http://www.facebook.com/james.sabrina James Sabrina

Marcus (carl) is one of my best friends if u could of seen how he wad with his family you would actully think hesva great kid best of luck to him i prey every day he gets the insanity plea in his favor idont care what u have to say about him hes one of the best friends i ever had and if i had beef with someone i dont care if he was on the other side of town he would get over to me as fast as he ciuld so fuck who ever wants to talk about him and i got a pretty good idea on who laced his blunt to theyll be seeing me
chikonanklemonitor

I can tell you from experience it was definately the little pinch ass pencils or if you get lucky you can get a “hole” pen. They’re the same length as that dumb ass pencil but they’re rubber so you can’t “shank” no body and they BARELY write, really only good for scratching the shit out of some paper. I used mine as a blowgun.
newstarshipsmell

I have a blue dot in my forehead from when I was four. I’ve forgotten where I was when I received it; all I recall is that I was extremely bored, and repeatedly bouncing a pencil tip off my forehead, until it suddenly didn’t bounce. I was told ages ago that I could get cosmetic surgery to have it removed, but I also stopped caring about it ages ago.

Ironically, my childhood best friend, whom I met around the same, also bears a self-inflicted pencil lead dot. In his case, on his thigh, because he was sitting in the pediatrician’s waiting room, bored out of his mind, and pissed off because while they stocked a number of coloring books, they only left pencils out to color in them with. So he expressed his dissatisfaction by stabbing the eyes out of every single person and animal in the book he was coloring in, until he got close to the back and it went through all the pages and into his leg.

One time in 5th grade, I was fucking with the kid sitting in front of me in choir (I attended a Lutheran school, so I got to sing hymns in class every fucking Thursday.) I kept poking him in the ass with a sharpened pencil; the dumbass jerked his chair around to confront me as I was poking him, driving the tip into his ass cheek. I got an angry lecture from… my science teacher, of all people, about the dangers of lead poisoning. I was stuck in the awkward position of trying to explain to my science teacher that pencil lead is graphite, i.e. pure carbon, and not lead, without giving the appearance of trying to downplay the seriousness of the incident or being unremorseful about it. But then, this same science teacher was also our gym teacher, which was the subject she specialized in and was hired for. Go figure. Every week the Science quiz on Monday always included the extra credit question “What was the Bears score on Sunday?” and I never guessed it correctly, as it never occurred to me to simply look in the newspaper and memorize the score, or ask someone else before the quiz.