Most Read
lizard people
Surfing Instructor Kills His Two Young Kids With Spearfishing Gun Over QAnon 'Serpent DNA' Theory
Tragedy has befallen a Southern California family over QAnon conspiracy theories.
Surfing school owner and instructor Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, of Santa Barbara, California has been charged with murdering his two young children with a spearfishing gun.
Watch news coverage here:
Coleman, his wife, and their two children—a 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter—had been preparing to go on a camping trip Saturday when Coleman suddenly disappeared with their two children, his wife said.
Coleman's wife, whose identity has not been released at this time, said while she was concerned over Coleman's taking of the children, she did not file a missing person's report as she couldn't fathom any harm would come to them.
However, when she realized Coleman didn't take a car seat for the children, she began to worry. When he didn't respond to her text messages or come home that night, she called the police the following day and formally filed a missing person's report.
In an effort to track Coleman down, authorities utilized Apple's Find My iPhone app in order to figure out where Coleman went. His iPhone was traced to Rosarito, Mexico and authorities believed he would soon be crossing the border back into the United States.
San Diego authorities headed to the San Ysidro border checkpoint on Monday to detain Coleman and perform a welfare check on the children, but found Coleman was alone in the car and the children were nowhere to be found.
It was then U.S. Customs agents noticed Coleman's vehicle registration had blood on it.
According to authorities, surveillance footage from a Rosarito hotel showed Coleman and the children checking in on Saturday, then leaving before dawn on Monday. Footage also showed Coleman returning to the hotel later in the morning, alone, and then checking out for good.
Mexican authorities later reported finding the bodies of the two children in a ditch by the country's border. The bodies matched the description of the Coleman children and both had large stab wounds in their chests.
A Mexican farm worker who discovered the gruesome remains of surf instructor Matthew Taylor Coleman\u2019s dead toddlers on the Rancho Del Descanso property where he worked says he was shocked when his dog led him to the two \u201csmall bodies\u201dhttps://trib.al/Q35Ja4X— The Daily Beast (@The Daily Beast) 1628778007
Both children had been stabbed over 10 times.
Coleman was brought in and questioned by California authorities. In the recorded interrogation, he confirmed the bodies found were indeed his children and confessed to murdering them.
He told police his motive for killing his children was "saving the world from monsters."
According to the criminal complaint, Coleman claimed he was "enlightened by QAnon and illuminati conspiracy theories and was receiving visions and signs revealing his wife...possessed serpent DNA and had passed it onto his children."
QAnon, a far-right conspiracy theory cult, claims the world is run by a cabal of Satanic, pedophilic, cannibals running a global sex-trafficking operation.
QAnoners also believe this cabal conspired against former President Donald Trump and used a Jewish space laser to cause wildfires that cost Trump his re-election in 2020.
Coleman believed this "serpent DNA" would cause his children to become monsters bent on destroying the world.
The "serpent DNA" claim may be in reference to the popular conspiracy theory reptilian "lizard people" have infiltrated our society and control our government in an attempt to enslave the human race.
This theory is not solely a QAnon theory. It is also a widely held belief in Illuminati conspiracy lore.
Coleman told police he believed his children were descended from monsters and while he knew killing them was wrong, it was "the only course of action that would save the world."
Coleman was seen as being a good person and a family man by his neighbors, who are shocked by the news of the murders.
Needless to say, people are horrified.
A man who believes in the deranged QAnon conspiracy theory killed his own kids with a speargun in Mexico because he thought they were going to develop into lizard people. This conspiratorial trash\u2014spread by some Republicans in Congress\u2014is *so* dangerous.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-dad-killed-his-kids-over-qanon-serpent-dna-conspiracy-n1276611\u00a0\u2026— Brian Klaas (@Brian Klaas) 1628749891
The horrific Qanon killer dad story is a reminder that Mike Lindell's paranoid fantasies going out live to Mr. & Mrs. America isn't necessarily a harmless sideshow.— Schooley (@Schooley) 1628780337
This Dad taught in high school, was a surfer, set up a non profit to mentor kids - and then killed his own two infants because of QAnon. This is insanity.https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/12/california-father-killed-children-qanon-illuminati/\u00a0\u2026— Katty Kay (@Katty Kay) 1628771332
So in the space of a week we\u2019ve had an incel blow away a bunch of innocent people because he couldn\u2019t get laid and an American dad stab his kids to death because Qanon convinced him they were contaminated with lizard DNA.\nI\u2019m gonna say it: what the fuck is wrong with men?— Mitch Benn\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa (@Mitch Benn\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddfa) 1628863335
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire \n\nMan who killed his children had been "enlightened by QAnon conspiracy theories". #QAnonCulthttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-11/coleman-charged-mexico-killings-qanon\u00a0\u2026— Ricardo Villarreal (@Ricardo Villarreal) 1628759951
The QAnon killer dad story broke me. \n\nEveryone associated with QAnon, its slogans, its message, its propaganda, its abject nonsense should be fundamentally ashamed.— Christine Brandt (@Christine Brandt) 1628789353
This week we learned the #QAnonCult inspired a dad to kill his two infant children, another incel to kill 5 people in the UK, and millions of people into thinking the former guy would be reinstated today.\n\nAnd yet, the GOP continues to court QAnon extremists. This is horrifying.— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@Qasim Rashid, Esq.) 1628886245
If these crazy f*ks will brutally murder their own kids, what do you think they will do to everyday Americans?https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-dad-killed-his-kids-over-qanon-serpent-dna-conspiracy-n1276611?cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR0q-1spLSGwDsdwk0TX_f3mLI01aBLhn5U-TDQxgSzk39KwO5CshR0FAlI\u00a0\u2026— Ryan Shead (@Ryan Shead) 1628782138
Just a reminder that QAnon was always bullshit made up by a perverted anime nerd who lives in the Philippines with his equally perverted dad and made everything up on a really shitty anime board and that nobody is being reinstated today okay losers? Thanks. #ReinstatementDaypic.twitter.com/Jw6yzwGzwD— otakunorico\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udcae (@otakunorico\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\udcae) 1628888478
Two young children - 2 yo and 10 months - killed with a spearfishing gun by their QNUT dad who believed they had \u201cserpent DNA\u201d and needed to be destroyed to save the world from monsters. \n\nThen he got in his car and headed home.\n\nQAnon is a deadly threat.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matthew-taylor-coleman-charged-killing-kids-qanon-conspiracy_n_61151690e4b07b9118a80f84\u00a0\u2026— Deb WARRIOR WOMAN Farmer \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@Deb WARRIOR WOMAN Farmer \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1628837427
Coleman is currently being held without bail and made his first court appearance on Wednesday.
He is being charged with foreign murder of United Stated nationals. His arraignment will be held on August 31.