AZ Man Beheads Wife, Cuts Off Own Arm, Plucks Out Own Eye, In
Bible-Inspired Blood Bath (VIDEO)
Author: Randa Morris August 9, 2015 6:20 pm

On the morning of July 25, a neighbor living near the Arizona residence
of Kenneth Dale Wakefield and Trina Heisch decided to stop by check on
the couple.

According to George Loney, when Wakefield answered the door that morning
he was naked. “Right away I knew something was wrong,” he told KTVK:

“He tells me he killed three of his family members, but it’s OK God
forgives him. I don’t believe him. I look around. I see blood and
[expletive deleted] and clothes; there’s a mess everywhere. I looked
down, and I see his arm is missing…I turn around to leave, and I think
maybe I should look back in, and I see there is blood, and it’s like The
[Texas] Chainsaw Massacre.”

Loney called the police, but before they arrived at the scene, Wakefield
gouged out his own eye.

According to court documents, he told police he cut off his wife’s head
“to get the evil out.” While police and the media have mainly focused on
the couple’s well-documented history of mental health issues,
authorities insist that they cannot find a motive for the crime.

Anyone familiar with the Christian Bible can immediately identify
Wakefield’s motive.

His self-mutilation was clearly inspired by a Biblical passage, found in
the book of Matthew (chapter 5:29-30, KJV).

“If your right eye makes you stumble, tear it out and throw it from
you; for it is better for you to lose one of the parts of your body,
than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. If your right hand
makes you stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; for it is better
for you to lose one of the parts of your body, than for your whole body
to go into hell.”

A nearly identical passage is found in the book of Mark (chapter
9:43-48, KJV). The only difference is that the passage in Mark instructs
readers to cut off their feet as well.

“And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to
enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the
fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the
fire is not quenched. And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is
better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast
into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm
dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye offend thee,
pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God
with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fi Where
their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.”

Wakefield cut off his own hand and he plucked out his own eye. It could
be coincidence, except for the fact that he talked about getting the
evil out of his wife and told his neighbor that God had forgiven him for
what he’d done.

While Christians are quick to suggest that beheading is a crime
particular to the followers of Islam, they conveniently ignore the fact
that decapitations are described throughout the Christian Bible. For
example, in Samuel 17:51 the Biblical king David cuts off the head of
the Philistine giant, Goliath.

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