An Arizona man who admitted to decapitating his wife
and her two dogs in a bloody incident last month in Phoenix told authorities he
was attempting "to get the evil out" of her, according to court
documents released on Monday.
Kenneth Dale Wakefield, 43, also told police that he
had smoked marijuana and the designer drug Spice about an hour before the
gruesome killings in a Phoenix apartment on the morning of July 25, the
documents showed.
Wakefield, a transient with a history of mental
illness who also maimed himself in the incident, was booked into a Maricopa
County jail Aug. 1 on one count of first-degree murder and two counts of animal
cruelty after being released from a local hospital. He is being held on $2
million bond.
In court papers, police said Wakefield told them
during an interview that he stabbed his 49-year-old wife, Trina Heisch,
multiple times before decapitating her, and killed the dogs by cutting their
heads off.
"He said he was trying to get the evil out of
Trina," police said in a probable cause statement filed in Maricopa County
Superior Court.
Police said the Phoenix man then severed his left
arm at the elbow and gouged out one of his eyes before being discovered.
The blood-splattered scene was found by a neighbor
who told police he was checking on the couple he knew had mental illness
issues.
The neighbor said he saw Wakefield naked, with part
of his arm cut off and his right eye missing, when he opened the door to the
apartment. The neighbor then called police.
Officers said they
entered the home and found the headless Heisch in a bedroom closet along with
the two dogs
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