Mother Realizes Her Son Just Executed Her Husband

I think why she's staying? Yeah. Oh, good, definitely. Is there anybody else in house? No. Just one, two, three. This mother just came home to her worst nightmare. Her husband brutally murdered in his own home. It's OK, honey. At first, she thought someone had broken in, but she would soon discover that this wasn't a robbery gone wrong. The truth was far more shocking. The killer was none other than one of her own sons. Let's, we'll figure it out, man. We'll figure it out. We can't figure it out. We can't. Some sick thing in my mind clips that made me want to kill him. On the night of November 21st, 2023, Theodore Gullia was working at his desk in his home when he was suddenly struck from behind with a baseball bat, a powerful blow to the head sent Theodore to the floor, severely injured and disoriented. As Theodore laid off helpless, the attacker continued to strike him repeatedly in the head and a final act of brutality. The assailant stabbed Theodore multiple times in the throat, leaving him to succumb to his horrific injuries. The following morning, police received a frantic call from Theodore's wife, who had just discovered her husband's lifeless body. Officers rushed to the scene unaware of the horror awaiting them. Come here! Let me see your hands! Come here! What's going on? Down the ground! Down the ground! Get down the ground! All of you, up the ground! On the ground! I'm having a weapon. I don't have a thing to do with my foot. Hands behind your back. Keep them there. Don't move them. Hands behind your both of you. Got him. Got him. Keep your hands right there. Don't move it. You got him? Yeah. Got him. One ten minutes. What happened? What happened? What happened? What happened? What happened? I can't even go work. In the home of Theodore lay lifeless in a pool of his own blood, his face and body brutally deformed. Blood splattered in the hallways and floor, painting a scene of unmistakable violence. From the moment they stepped inside, officers knew this was a ruthless homicide. Hey, RJ. I'm just going to invite you if you're right because I still don't know what happened. Ben didn't do anything then. Ben didn't do anything. He thinks that I'm murdered my dad and he wasn't attacking me. I did not murder my dad. Police have yet to determine if anyone in the family is involved. But RJ repeatedly insists he didn't kill his father. A denial that, in itself, raises suspicion and officers immediately picked up on this. What happened? Okay, so I heard scuffling in the middle of the night. And I usually smoke cigarettes in the garage. Okay. Listen to music. It's very important. Long story short, find my dad when my mom comes home. Okay. Who moved the body? Because the body's really good move. Was that you? I didn't move it. My mom made one up there. Your mom is not moving that body. I'm saying, are you saying? Who called that? Who was here last night in the house? Just you and your dad? Yeah, and I think someone broke in and murdered. Something about RJ's story isn't adding up and officers can feel it. He's not telling the whole truth. His account is riddled with inconsistencies and his demeanor is far too calm. Especially compared to his brother Ben who is inconsolable. Are you just coming from work? Yes, I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but there's been history in it. No, you're fine. I'm staying in the house. Okay. Can I go inside and get in the car? We'll get there, okay? You want to leave against the car? You want to? No, I can't. He called me last night at 12. Who did? My dad. Okay. And do you speak to him? I didn't answer. I was asleep. I just like calling him this morning. Yeah. Talked last night. Talked to him. Are they getting ready for Thanksgiving news at my house? Are they getting ready for Thanksgiving? I'm really sorry for your loss, man. We have my condolences. I don't want this to be real. I know. Trust me. I wish it wasn't. Was your mom here last night? It was just him and your dad. Yes. Okay. Ben seems to be in shock. Yet one thing is very clear. Ben suspects that his own brother is responsible for the cold-blooded murder of their father. It might be easy to miss, but after Ben tells the officer that RJ and Theodore were home on last night, he quietly mutters under his breath that piece of shit. We need to take RJ back. No, no. 100%. Step a little more. One, two, three. Stand by a second. Let's see. All right. Hold on for a second. Guess what we got? He's dead. That's going to be no. So the only thing that you guys are going to do is basically confirm it's come shot. We're into the head. Pretty suspicious. Pretty shady. What's going on. So we're probably going to leave. We're probably going to leave the squad. We're going to be probably clear. And then but I'm away for the detectives to go up first because we can't just jump the crime scene. Well, there's already been a service. Someone moved the body. It's an obvious. He's dead. Yeah. So 100%. Let me go on that. Okay. He's been sitting there for a while. So two. Probably right now. Okay. Yeah. He's clearly dead. Body's clearly been moved. Whatever happened, happened in the front hallway. Body's in the bedroom. Mom says she found the body. RJ's in custody right there. Son and mom both say RJ was here with him alone. RJ claims I briefly were in eyes and I just said what happened. He says there was a scuffle last night. He thinks someone broke in the house and murdered his father. All right. So that's where we're at. And some investigators work to process the scene and gather evidence. Other officers continue piecing together a timeline based on each family member's account. And during this process police would soon discover a critical piece of evidence that would immediately raise serious doubts about one of the son's versions of events. I just got a quick timeline from her. Okay. She went to her daughter Claire's yesterday in the morning. Hmm. Stayed with her daughter all yesterday. Stayed with her daughter's last year. Came home at 10 o'clock this morning. I said, "Why'd you come home?" Well RJ probably said he needed cigarettes. Yeah. I said he said anything happened. No. I said, "Okay." So how did you find out when you got here? She said, "Well, I first came here, which is my bedroom." And then I went upstairs and that's what I found. Yeah. I said, "Okay." So RJ, when you got here, RJ never said anything to you about what happened upstairs. I briefly talked to RJ. He said somebody broke in the house in order of my dad. Eat me equally. I don't know what the gun is. It's upstairs. I don't think that's it. It might be. And I guess that's what she called this son after she found him. I don't think he's related. No. After she found him, that's when she called him who can ever sleep. As far as my understanding goes, whenever anything happened, it was just RJ and his dad. For what? That's the same thing I've gotten from Poosie. That's the other guy. Yeah. Yeah. So the same thing is that RJ and his dad were home alone all night. Based on everything they've gathered, officers decide to take Annie, Ben and RJ in for questioning. It's clear that RJ is the most suspicious out of the group and, as such, their primary suspect. But in order to fully cover all possible angles, it's crucial to get a formal interview with everyone who could have been involved. We're going to take him out of the car. You know, like go for a second. Yeah. Let's go. We're going this way. Come on. Yeah, we do. Yeah, we all got to go all of us. Let's go. You're going to follow me. Okay. Let's go. We're going to this car right here, okay? What's going to happen is everyone's going to go back to the station. I mean, obviously, we're going to talk to all of you. Get statements from everybody. Have a seat. Officers don't suspect Annie or Ben have any involvement, but their suspicion of RJ is only growing. In fact, and many of them are already familiar with RJ. As this isn't the first time law enforcement has been called to the Gullia residents due to an ongoing dispute between father and son, RJ has a known history of violence, and officers can't shake the feeling that something darker is at play. One officer in particular recalls an unsettling conversation he had with Theodore during a previous visit. One that still sends chills down his spine. For when he saw me, he said, "Shit, don't like," when he comes in after all this shit. Now he's like completely different person, right? I just think that means something here. I was looking at it. He has like a thousand miles stare right now. when he was sitting on the ground. - No, it's not. - But that guy said-- - I don't even know if I actually studied it, but I thought it. I might have said it to his dad, though. He's gonna kill you. - When last time we were here? - Yeah. - 'Cause I talked to him after everyone else left. - Oh, no, it's doing this. Oh, this is here. Goddamn. And I know we've been here two weeks ago. - Oh, Jay. - Yeah, I was dripping the stab. I was like, "Jab about that." - No, no. - I'm not running past him. - No way. - Yeah. - Um, at least he was like, "I know RJ's going back to booking for sure." - Okay. - Just we're gonna hold him for the bus. - Absolutely. - So we've got absolutely all of this homicider side. - Right. - Which I would heavily lean towards homicide, but the way he was two weeks ago, absolutely. - Two weeks earlier, officers had been called to the same house after reports claiming that RJ was acting aggressively and making threats towards his family. This incident further strengthened the officer's suspicion that RJ was the one responsible for Theodore's death. With this in mind, officers arrested RJ on suspicion of murder and brought him into the Solon Police Station for questioning. Their goal was clear, confront him, push for confession, and uncover what might have driven him to murder his father. And what RJ would go on to reveal in that interview would become one of the most disturbing things the investigators had ever heard. - Hey, Robert. Um, so just like, uh, last time in some new day, I'm gonna read you your rights again. I just need to check the UV signature there. - Welcome to Tom Clay and Matt. - All right. Well, Tyler, the person I'm playing with is in the man. - Yeah. - I'm not gonna look for any kind of excuse or blame game to put on my dead. This is bad enough. - I get it. - I get it. - I'm going to disagree some of you'd say, not going to put him down, then come over in that. - Okay. - First of all, what I did makes me sick inside. I'll never forget that, I don't know. I don't know why, I don't know how I don't, there wasn't much motive other than just being angry. I was going to use sitting down and I was gonna hit him from behind 'cause I didn't want to be. I didn't want to go too far. I didn't want, I just wanted to end fast. When I decided in my mind, I was gonna do that. I hit him a couple times in the arm and the broke his arm 'cause he heard his arm. I didn't want him to just stagger off and call the police and it was more of the same. I said, "You know what? I'm just gonna do this." And I started swinging the bat and knocked him really around. And right there, where all that blood was, I hit him and knocked him cold. And I just tried to kill him from that point. He was struggling and I took a knife and just tried to just stroke 'cause I didn't want him to be alone any more day. And I had gone too far and I should, I don't know how I didn't take my life seeing my dad like that. For an old frickin' reason, man. I didn't have much motive or plan. And I wasn't even that angry. This is, I don't know, like I was possessed. He was literally sitting down and I started striking, sitting down and wearing them. At his desk, he sat there a lot of the time. And I wasn't up to the line and I started hitting him. And he said, "I love you, man." And it was too far. His arm was all smashed up. It was too much. So I said, "You know what, I'm just gonna finish it, get it over with." I'm knocking a lot of them suffer like that and get called, they'll call please. And the strike to continue that it ends here, is that correct? I knocked him out cold, and I never killed anybody in my life. So I had no idea how hard it was to actually kill them. - Okay. - And I, still like I said, I grabbed a knife from his desk and stabbed him in his arm. - Okay. - And he found that for good. - Okay, and that was done out here. - Let's see. - I don't think you know how much this feels like the right thing to do. - It is the right thing to do. - I love my dad the most. I try the hardest to get along with him. He's the hardest guy to get along with. - I can't get along with the most, I've never looked. I just want you to know that. - I believe that. - Play guitar. - You've loved playing a guitar. - I believe that RJ, I don't doubt that one bit. - That's what happened. I didn't do anything weird, I didn't take it too far. I just wanted it ahead. - You know, we can't go back in time. The best we can do is go forward and make the best out of from there on what you can control. You can't control what has been done. It's done. Let's move past it. Let's make better choices. Let's do the right thing from here moving forward. And that speaks to you and it speaks to your character. And I appreciate that. - I just want to say great, thank you for giving me the opportunity to come quickly. I know it's a Thanksgiving and everything. This means a lot to me that you did that. Because what you said is 100% true. There's no passing. So it's worth it comes out. - Thank you. Appreciate that. It is deeply disturbing how a son who claimed to love his father the most ultimately became his killer. But at the very least, R.J. chose to come clean, confessing his actions and showing remorse for what he had done. R.J. later pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault and offenses against a human corpse. He was sentenced to a maximum of 25 and a half years at the Lorraine Correctional Institute where he currently resides.