Stephen Anastasi Blamed The Aliens

[TheMorningStar]

Neighbors tell FOX25 Stephen Anastasi came running out of his Auburn Street home with a cat in his hands. He eventually ended up at his neighbor Peter Walters’ house talking about aliens.
"He walked in looking at the wires saying, oh your house is bugged too. Like mine,” says Walters, “My house has explosives in it. The aliens are wiring your house. They're running around the neighborhood killing everyone.”

Walters’ wife and a few neighbors tried to calm Stephen by bringing him home to his father. A neighbor knocked and called, but when there was no answer one answer entered the home and came across a body covered by a blanket.
That body belonged to Stephen’s father, 60-year-old John Anatasi
When the group called 911, Stephen ran into the woods. The 24-year-old was arrested and charged with murder a short time later.
Friends and neighbors tell FOX25 Stephen has a troubled past that involving drugs and run-ins with the police. They also say the men frequently argued.

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/...death-20111112

[TheMeaningOfItAll]

Once someone starts talking about things being bugged, I'm out. We had a crazy lady who lived at the apartment complex I ran back in the day and she was always accusing the maintenance guys of bugging her home when she left to run errands. We finally politely let her out of her lease. That kind of psycho thinking can't be changed unless heavy meds are involved.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

A Danvers man was ordered held without bail this afternoon after pleading not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his father.

Stephen Anastasi, 24, struck his father John, 60, in the back of the head three times with a hammer as the older man was eating lunch on Friday, he allegedly told investigators.

Hours later, after purchasing some heroin, Stephen returned home and found his father on the floor, making noises, prosecutor A.J. Camelio said during the son’s arraignment in Salem District Court.

Stephen Anastasi allegedly then told investigators that he stabbed his father in the head, to end his pain.

It wasn’t until the following morning anyone found out, after Stephen wandered the neighborhood with a cat, telling neighbors about aliens. That’s the same story he initially gave to police, but, said Camelio, he eventually confessed to killing his father.

Investigators believe he also used a mop and towels, found in the house, to try to clean blood off the kitchen floor before he left the home Saturday morning.

http://www.salemnews.com/local/x8112...ll-Danvers-dad

Neighbors painted a disturbing portrait of a Danvers man facing arraignment this morning in Salem District Court in the killing of his 60-year-old father.
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Michelle Gillis, a neighbor for 10 years, said she knew the two fought and that Stephen was battling his own demons, but he was kind to her and her children.

“There were problems, but deep down Stephen was a kind-hearted kid,” Gillis said. “He was one of those kids that you hated to see make bad decisions.”

Gillis talked about a troubled past that only intensified when his mother left.

“He was in pain,” she said. “This was a kid that had a lot of bad things happen to him when he was little. I think he had a tough upbringing and was trying to battle through it.”

Next-door neighbor David Gotts said he never saw any violence but acknowledged the troubled relationship between father and son.

“I remember hearing a lot of arguing and shouting,” Gotts said. “We knew that there were arguments and that the father and son didn’t get along.”

The neighbors said police had been to the home repeatedly in the past.

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/re..._slain_father/

On the small dead end street, with only about a half-dozen houses, neighbors said the younger Anastasi has had run-ins with the law in the past.

“When you saw a police car over there, you knew it had something to do with Stephen,’’ said Jan Gotts, a neighbor who said she baby-sat Stephen and his sister when they were in elementary school. “I know the police were called quite a few times.’’

Gotts also said neighbors regularly called the police when Stephen Anastasi drove down the middle of the road, blasting the music in his car.

“He was the teenager in the neighborhood who was . . . making some bad decisions,’’ said neighbor Michelle Gillis, who has known the family for a decade.

Gillis said Stephen had been acting odd.

“He wasn’t acting like himself. He went to a neighbor’s house, which was different, he doesn’t normally [interact with neighbors],’’ she said. “He obviously was under some distress.’’

Gillis said the father was “a very soft-spoken guy. He cared about his son a lot, but he just wasn’t equipped to deal with what his son was going through. He didn’t put his foot down until it got too late.’’

Gotts painted a different picture of the father.

“He was very high-strung - had a bad temper, you could not reason with him, he thought the world owed him something, being a single father.’’

http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/11...pnK/story.html

[Pete Bondurant]

[Sammy]

Hours later, after purchasing some heroin, Stephen returned home and found his father on the floor, making noises, prosecutor A.J. Camelio said during the son’s arraignment in Salem District Court.

Another good case for the legalization of drugs.

[TheMorningStar]

Another good case for the legalization of drugs.

Because only people on illegal drugs commit murder.

[Sammy]

Because only people on illegal drugs commit murder.

This one did.

[Darsa]

I hope they were able to get the cat away from him... =/