Rachel Shannon

So now she's wondering what she could have done to stop it.

Those questions are going to haunt her.

If she had any idea that he was believing all this, she would have helped him get help.

But she didn't know.

And now the worst has happened.

She even went on to say that she's scared that she may have been next since Matthew accused her of being in on the conspiracy and having serpent DNA.

So after all of this information was discovered, of course, Matthew was charged with two counts of first degree murder and he pled not guilty.

Family members came out after all of this and they all said that they had no idea that Matthew was even capable of doing something like this.

they are all very confident that he just had this psychotic break where he just snapped.

While awaiting in prison, Matthew wrote a two-page letter to a long-term friend to basically talk about the things that he had worked through since being in prison.

he wrote in part quote i was deceived i was deceiving myself i know now that the serpent dna thing was a delusion in my own mind i made myself believe something that wasn't there he went on to say that he didn't have access to the internet he didn't have access to all of those conspiracy sites that he had been obsessed with before the murders in relation to his beliefs in the conspiracies he wrote that he's starting to see through all of it now

He continues, quote, there's a lot to unpack, but I have to figure out what I really believe.

But I don't have access to information anymore, so I'm having to use my own mind to figure things out.

So as Matthew awaits his trial in jail, the prosecution has come out to say that they are not pursuing the death penalty in this case.

federal prosecutors pondered whether he was actually insane at the time of the murders or if he's just trying to use the insanity defense as a way to plea his case.

The officials who are writing up the affidavits in this case all put that all of these different things, the conspiracies, all of the different things that he was believing in

And if that's kind of paired with a mental illness, that this could be a result and that it could be that he genuinely thought that he wasn't actually doing something wrong and that he truly was insane at the time that these murders were committed.

So as of right now, that's where the case stands.

I haven't been able to find any information regarding a psych evaluation.

I'm pretty confident that based on just his behaviors and what we know that there was one done but I don't know the results or what will come of it.