Middletown Man Who Decapitated Father, Posted Video to YouTube, Ruled Competent to Stand Trial, Judge Says

Justin Mohn, the 32 year old conspiracist who decapitated his father and posted his sick work to YouTube, was ruled competent to stand trial by a Bucks County Judge last week.

Bucks County Judge Stephen Corr made the decision Thursday after a hearing at Justice Center in Doylestown.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer,  the judge said Mohn displayed a ‘rational, factual understanding of the [court] proceedings’ and understood the charges against him and their potential penalties.  Corr also agreed with prosecutors that Mohn, in filing a handwritten motion seeking to replace his lawyer, Joseph Haag, was willing and able to participate in his defense, just not with Haag.

Mohn was arrested shortly after the Jan. 30 killing of his father and charged with first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and possession of an instrument of crime.

In the now pulled down video, Mohn holds up his father’s head, identifies him and spews anti-government rhetoric.

Police were dispatched at 7 p.m. Tuesday to 145 Upper Orchard Drive in the township’s Levittown section, for a report of a deceased male. The call to emergency dispatchers came from the victim’s wife.

While patrol officers were responding to the scene, they received further information that an elderly male was in the downstairs bathroom with a large amount of blood around him and that he had been decapitated. A machete and a large knife were located in the bathtub. Police located the male’s body in the first-floor bathroom. The deceased male’s head was located inside of a plastic bag, which was inside of a cooking pot in a first-floor bedroom next to the bathroom.

A preliminary hearing  has been scheduled for Aug. 22.