Francis Wolke moved across the country to the Silicon Valley with a dream of joining the ranks of a rich elite.
Instead, the 30-year-old computer programmer went a dark way and his name will become synonymous with one of the most terrible murders in Bay Area.
2018 December 12 Police found Wolke’s 62 -year -old Kathyen Hughes Anderson at Menlo Park at home. The longtime arborist of the Atherton city was lying almost in the basement with a ball pen.
Blood -covered Wolke confessed that she had been killed. He later told investigators that he believes he had to commit murder and consume a human body to join 1%and stay young forever.
Francis Wolke 2018 December 12 (San Mateo County Prison) Died Kathleen Hughes Anderson to her Menlo Park House (San Mateo County Prison)
That cool statement and twisted journey married in Wolke from Sinsinati to California is in the center of the first episode Midsummer on Technical BroA new collection of discovery documents, premiere, Tuesday, September 9 at 10 p.m. ET /9am CT, and weekly episodes are broadcast by HBO Max.
A brutal crime with strange motives
The first episode Midsummer on Technical Bro The audience brings directly to the crime scene through the eyes of Daniel Baggett, a friend of Anderson who dates back to her husband’s death in 2007.
At night, because of her murder, Baggett said she felt someone pulling her into her home. When Anderson did not respond to his calls, Baggett decided to check her. What he has found has since chased him – in Wolke Anderson’s home, covered with blood.
According to the San Mateo County law firm, Wolke tried to strangle Anderson. When it did not work, he scratched an eye on the pen and used a saw on her hand, which almost stopped it.
He was interrupted by Baggett, who kept him in the knife until the police arrived. When the police arrived, they found both men inward and both helped them arrest.
Kathy Anderson, 62, a former arborist was found almost pulled with a pen in her eye (Kathy Hughes Anderson Memorial Tree Fund)
After retiring, Sandra Brown, a Palo Alto PD detective, appears on the documents to unpack the twisted cases, explains that finding two men holding knives to each other, they remained asking: Who was the killer?
One man had a previous relationship with her, but there were no relationships between Wolke and Anderson or previous contacts.
Wolke was quickly accused of murder, and police believe that the stay at home that night could not allow Wolke to run at home.
“He was the one who stopped Franio Wolke to keep it from leaving,” Brown said. “If Francis Wolke had left, it was possible that we would never find him.”
“I have never been treated as a hero,” Baggett said, shrugging. “I just wish she would still be here. I was just glad I was able to do what I think Kathy wanted me to do, and it was to make sure he wouldn’t go away.”
“I believe that what attracted me to that house that night was she,” he added through tears.
After leaving
Wolke did not say guilty of insanity and dark murder motivation began to come to light.
For the first time, Wolke moved from Sinsinati to the Silicon Valley in 2014, dreaming of being with other Mark Zuckerberg. He told his family that he had contacts with important people in California.
He met Daniel Girshovich at the cryptocurrency congress and was invited to stay in his apartment. Later, Girshovich testified that Wolke was working on an operating system to give consumers more control of their computers and spent all the time, rarely sleeping or eating.
He described Wolke as “an eccentric, arrogant, stubborn, extreme external” due to his hostile behavior and opinion about modern society, Almanac reported. The voltage in the joint apartment and Wolke was asked to move out about six months later.
Wolke was homeless for several months before his parents sent him a bus ticket and he returned home for a short while. But just two days before the murder, he returned to California.
According to the court’s testimony, Wolke was plagued by hearing hallucinations and delusions, which the richest 1%of the world secretly maintained its power through ritual murder and cannibalism.
He told psychiatrists that he wanted to become a “protein combine”, believing he could join the elite by killing and consuming another person.
Wolke’s defense attorney Connie O’Brien told the court that Wolke was doing hearing hallucinations several times by bus by bus from Sinsinati back to the Gulf area.
He said he was suffering from psychosis during the murder of Wolke and that he could not understand his behavior as morally wrong.
Anderson, her community reinforcement, dedicated most of her work to the trees (Katheri Hughes Anderson Memorial Tree Fund)
David Berke, a forensic psychologist who testified during the investigation, said Wolke thought “there were 1% of the population who kills people and eats their stem cells that give them almost eternal youth” and that “what he has done will confirm 1%.”
Berke also testified that Wolke stayed for a few hours after the murder at Anderon’s home and even lay down – it meant he did not fully understand the severity of his actions, he said.
After the jurors admitted Wolke’s guilt for murder, San Mateo District High Court Judge Stephanie Garratt convicted him of a 26 -year term with a more than 1,600 day credit for the service life, saying that Wolke’s murder is “the worst nightmare of every woman.”
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