• Home
  • News
    • Politics & Government
    • Business & Economy
    • Crime / Courts
    • Health / Medicine
  • Sports
    • High School Sports
    • Radio Iowa Poll
  • Affiliates
    • Affiliate Support Page
  • Contact Us
    • Reporters

Radio Iowa

Iowa's Radio News Network

You are here: Home / Crime / Courts / Psychiatrist testifies in Becker trial

Psychiatrist testifies in Becker trial

February 19, 2010 By O. Kay Henderson

A psychiatrist from a Waterloo hospital testified a 24-year-old Parkersburg man accused of murdering his former high school football coach told doctors he was seeing Satan and hearing voices the weekend before the shooting. Mark Becker is on trial, accused of shooting Aplington-Parkersburg coach Ed Thomas to death in June.

A doctor who met with Becker on a Monday — two days before the shooting — diagnosed him with schizophrenia. That weekend Becker told doctors he was seeing Satan and hearing voices that were telling him to do things. But on Tuesday afternoon Becker told a nurse he was no longer hearing voices and wanted to be discharged. He was allowed to leave the hospitals’ psychiatric unit at about five o’clock that afternoon.

The next morning Becker shot Thomas to death. Testimony in the trial is scheduled to resume at nine o’clock this morning in Butler County.

Share this:

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Crime / Courts Tagged With: Football

Featured Stories

Testing finds 21 new CWD cases in deer

It may become a crime in Iowa to use fake urine in workplace drug tests

February trending 18 degrees below average temperature

Iowa House Education Committee votes to end tenure at UI, ISU, UNI

Man convicted of two Muscatine County murders dies in prison

TwitterFacebook
Tweets by RadioIowa

Key stretch begins for #9 Iowa

Drake’s Roman Penn lost for the season

Drake’s DeVries named to Naismith watch list

State wrestling opens with limited attendance

Iowa’s Wieskamp is B1G Player of the Week

More Sports

eNews and Updates

Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner

Archives

Copyright © 2021 ยท Learfield News & Ag, LLC