'Unintelligible screams': Son filled with 'true hatred' killed his father using pole saw and ax on Christmas Eve

A New Jersey antheral faces decades down bars for the gory Christmas Eve killing of his father, Garden State authorities announced.

On Monday, Kyle Meyer, 35, was convicted by a assemblage successful Morris County connected 1 number each of first-degree murder, third-degree possession of a limb for an unlawful purpose, and fourth-degree unlawful possession of a weapon, according to a press release issued by the Morris County Prosecutor's Office.

The verdict stemmed from the execution of Gregory Meyer, 61, who bled to decease successful his ain location connected Old Denville Road successful Boonton Township – a tiny suburb located successful the broader New York City metro area.

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On Dec. 24, 2023, the younger Meyer utilized a battery-powered rod saw and ax to chopped into his father's head, hands, and near leg, prosecutors showed during a seven-day proceedings that ended past week.

When authorities arrived astatine the family's location astir 1:15 p.m. that time successful effect to an exigency call, the unfortunate was already dead.

Investigators described a peculiarly bloody country wrong the house, according to a probable origin affidavit obtained by Patch.com.

"A ample magnitude of humor was observed successful the basement," the charging papers reads. "Blood was besides observed starring from the basement, up the basement staircase, and into the chamber maintained by Meyer wrong the residence."

Authorities rapidly ascertained the elder Meyer's son arsenic the suspect and detained him by 9 p.m. that nighttime successful the metropolis of Patterson, located astir 20 miles eastbound of Boonton Township.

When taken into custody, Kyle Meyer appeared to beryllium successful mean wellness with nary disposable wounds, according to the affidavit. The suspect besides declined to supply immoderate connection to the arresting officers.

Following an autopsy, the aesculapian examiner determined Gregory Meyer's origin of decease was "exsanguination owed to aggregate injuries."

A GoFundMe by the victim's member remembered him fondly:

In losing Greg connected Christmas Eve, our household mislaid a son, brother, uncle, and father. Along with our extended household and friends, we are grieving the decease of a antheral who brought music, laughter, and emotion to our lives.

The fundraiser besides described the slayer arsenic being "lost successful the acheronian of intelligence illness, alcoholism, and maltreatment of drugs ineligible and illegal."

During the son's trial, Supervising Assistant Prosecutor Tara Wang described Gregory Meyer's "unintelligible screams" emanating from the different picturesque suburban location that fatal Christmas Eve, according to a courtroom study by NorthJersey.com.

"Screams that you volition larn are the past sounds that Greg made earlier his beingness came to a blunt and gruesome extremity astatine the hands of the defendant, Kyle Meyer," the authoritative said during her opening statement.

Prosecutors and constabulary alike would besides virtually amusement jurors some the lengthy saw and dense ax utilized to slay the defendant's father.

"At 12:45 p.m., connected that Christmas Eve, the suspect abruptly attacked successful the basement, utilized the Milwaukee M18 substance powerfulness caput with a rod saw attachment to repeatedly onslaught Greg passim his body," Wang continued.

The authorities alleged the onslaught was without warning, without provocation, not adjacent preceded by an statement oregon quality – but, rather, simply motivated by the son's "animus" and "true hatred" for his father.

The defense, for its part, was based connected the conception that determination were nary eyewitnesses to the brutal transgression to place the suspect arsenic the killer.

"The state's mentation is built connected possibilities, not proof," defence lawyer Joseph Corazza said during his ain opening statement. "What you volition perceive passim the grounds is that we'll perceive a batch of fancy, technological technology, technological phrases, technological explanations. Don't fto the fancy connection fool you, perceive to the existent evidence."

In the end, the assemblage sided with the state.

Kyle Meyer faces a condemnation of 30 years to beingness successful situation connected the execution condemnation alone. He is slated to beryllium sentenced connected Feb. 6, 2026.