An Ohio judge barred incriminating confessions from a man who police say confessed to killing his three young sons, concluding that police violated his constitutional rights after arresting him.
After his three young sons were shot and a girl ran in the street screaming that her father “was killing everyone,” authorities captured Chad Doerman, 33, last summer.
Clermont County Common Pleas Judge Richard Ferenc ruled that investigators failed to inform Doerman of his protection against self-incrimination and right to an attorney before his "Custodial Interrogation."
Defense lawyers requested the judge to toss out Doerman's questioning testimony over the alleged infractions and other issues at a hearing last month, NBC station WLWT of Cincinnati reported. In court, prosecutor Lara Baron Allen told the judge that officials did everything right and “upheld the defendant’s constitutional rights from beginning to end,” the station reported.
Michael Ross, the Clermont County sheriff's detective who interviewed Doerman, said that Doerman said, "The Bible says you kill your first born, your second born, your third born." You must first kill your wife. I didn’t murder my wife.”
Authorities claimed Doerman “confessed to planning and carrying out the deaths of the victims for several months.” WLWT analyzed court records.
Doerman was charged with multiple counts of aggravated murder and other felonies for killing the three boys, ages 3, 4, and 7, on June 15.
The Clermont County Sheriff's Office accused him of lining up and shooting the children dead with a rifle. Their mother was hand-shot.
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