Truly disgusting. A 19-year-old North Carolina man has admitted to the gruesome murder and dismemberment of his older, gay roommate. Michael Anderson had apparently some previous sexual involvement with 35-year-old Stephen Starr but claimed he "turned straight again." That, plus unwanted advances and overdosing on cough medication ... caused him to shoot and mutilate his sleeping roommate, reports the Hickory Daily Record.
Starr was found in bed in what law enforcement has described as one of the most gruesome crime scenes they’ve seen in years. Anderson was charged with Starr’s murder Monday afternoon and has his first court appearance Wednesday morning. Anderson called 911 while next to Starr’s body in the master bedroom, with a gun still in his hands, according to the 911 call. Anderson was holding the pistol, Fish said. In the call, Anderson says he took some pills that “made me go mad.” He tells the woman at the communications center that he shot his roommate three times and then used an ax and mutilated his body. "I Od’d on Mucinex DM. Dextromethorphan makes me feel a little weird and I took too many," Anderson said.
About 4 minutes and 30 seconds into the call, the telecommunicator asks what sparked the attack. Anderson said it was because he was straight, and Starr was gay. According to him, the two met at a gay club. Anderson said he was straight, but went to the club to experiment. "I met him and went to his house and he took me in and I turned straight again. And he wanted to touch me and stuff and I wouldn’t let him, and he kept trying. And I waited until he went to sleep and then I shot him three times. And I mutilated him very badly and I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Oh God, please help me."
Recreational use of DXM is often referred as "robo-tripping." The side-effects are similar to ketamine, e.g. euphoric, psychedelic, dissociative and hallucinogenic. Shooting roommates and mutilating bodies with axes? Those symptoms do not appear in the contraindications.
Anderson describes the crime scene and the murder in the 911 emergency call. Via Pam Spaulding, WATCH AFTER THE JUMP ...
Gay panic. Right-- panic of the truth about himself is more like it.
Posted by: Doug Cooper Spencer | 16 February 2011 at 10:44
Anderson claims he was tripped out on cough syrup, but apparently, he was still lucid enough to wait for Starr to go to sleep, before carrying out his gruesome attack. Overkill of the sort seen here is usually indicative of extreme rage, and I would venture to guess that Anderson projected his rage onto Starr, because he couldn't deal with the truth of his own sexuality.
"I turned straight" again??? What's REALLY scary is, in the South, a jury might actually buy that.
Posted by: Nathan James | 16 February 2011 at 10:54
The enemy is praying our young people. Please pray for out youth.
Posted by: marty | 16 February 2011 at 17:15
I O'D'ed on Nyquil and that's why I ate half a cake. Yeah, yeah, that's what I'll tell Weight Watchers. C' on folks!! Foolishness and chaos is all this is. I can't believe he said this stuff. I hope the jury puts him away!!!
He should have beat and whatever the gay out of himself, and not the person who he found his gayness with. It's not Starr's fault Anderson is gay. If he 'turned straight' again, why not just leave the premises? Go live elsewhere. If I had to choose between chopping someone up or simply moving out, I really, really, really believe I would just move out.
Please pray for the safety of our lgbt community. There are crazy azz people out there.
Posted by: Diva1961 | 16 February 2011 at 19:21
May Stephen Starr rest in piece. Anderson is an insane piece of s**t. Truly mortifying.
Posted by: MW09 | 16 February 2011 at 20:06
I have robo-tripped before. Homicidal thoughts did not enter my head. It was euphoric, and felt like an outer-body experience.
The gay panic is so passe.
Posted by: Zambos27 | 16 February 2011 at 21:33
We are in an insane world with people crazy people roaming freely.
Posted by: Geoowens10030 | 02 March 2011 at 19:47