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A disturbing incident in Minnesota has horrified authorities: a man reportedly stabbed his mother and began consuming parts of her while she was still alive.
Eric Leif Jordahl has been convicted of first-degree murder along with two counts of second-degree murder for the brutal killing of his mother, Rosalie Johnson. Despite pleading not guilty due to mental illness, court documents obtained by Oxygen detail the grim events.
In July 2020, Eric’s father, Andrew, made a frantic call to 911 after coming home from work. Upon arrival, his 26-year-old son shockingly confessed to having “eaten” his mother, as outlined in the court documents titled “Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Order.”
The documents reveal that Andrew encountered Eric in the garage, drenched in blood, frantically leaping and gesticulating. Eric reportedly pleaded with his father, saying, “don’t kill me,” and declared himself a “cannibal,” adding, “The devil exists, it’s in me and I ate mom.”
Rushing inside the house, Andrew was confronted with the gruesome sight of a human jaw placed on the kitchen counter. He instructed Eric to lie on the floor before alerting authorities by calling 911.
When police arrived, they noted blood, hair and tissue on Eric’s clothing, along with the jaw and a bloody knife covered in hair, according to the document. Brain matter was scattered throughout the home and bloody tracks led from a basement bedroom, where officers found the body of the 62-year-old, whose scalp lay against a wall.
Eric told police he went into Rosalie’s room while she slept and after she told him to go back to bed, he repeatedly punched her in the head, according to the document, then used a fan “as a weapon.”
According to the document, Eric went upstairs and grabbed a knife “because he intended to kill the victim,” per the document, then stabbed his mom. Eric then “began to cut up and cannibalize the victim while she was still alive,” then allegedly scalped her and consumed part of her brain before severing her jaw, per the doc.
He allegedly told police that he considered hurting his mother in the past—but not to the extent he did that day.
An attorney for Eric did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Oxygen. Eric was expected to appear in court on April 13, per the document, regarding his defense of not guilty due to mental illness.