The Arkansas farmer accused of murdering and raping a nurse said during a mental health examination that after killing the victim he tried to “wrap himself” with his corpse, then went home. dinner and “just tried to forget about it.”
The chilling confession of 28-year-old Quake Lewellyn is in an assessment by a state psychologist who found he was mentally fit to be tried for the death of 25-year-old Sydney Sutherland, who disappeared while running in in August.
“It was all just a blur,” Lewellyn told the psychologist, according to a report obtained by KARK.
The married stepfather of three people says that on the day of the incident, he was driving to check some wells and rice paddies when he saw Sutherland walking on a gravel road.
According to his account, he passed her, turned around and hit her with his truck, unable to see her in a cloud of dust. She claims she walked in to see if she was okay and thought she was dead at the time.
Although she had not drunk or used drugs, she states that she was “afraid and afraid that she would have problems running over her”. Instead of calling 911 for help, he said he put his body in the back door of his truck with his gaze hidden.
His narration takes a really depraved turn.
Lewellyn told the psychologist she drove a rice paddy to bury Sutherland, but first stripped her naked and “tried to mess with her a bit,” though she said her lawyers advised her not to explain exactly what she did. which he did.
He dug a hole and buried Sutherland, and then continued his day as if he hadn’t died a life and abused a corpse, the assessment says.
When he got back to work, he spent the next two or three hours checking the wells, went home, had dinner, and went to bed. “He reported that he did not tell anyone what happened and” tried to forget, “the psychologist wrote.
When news of Sutherland’s disappearance spread, Lewellyn’s father called him to ask if he had seen her and said he said he saw her on the road. The next day he went to the police station to report the observation, “still hoping not to be caught,” the report says, and finally decided to confess.
“I knew I didn’t kill her on purpose,” she told the assessor. Asked why he didn’t just call 911, he said, “I don’t know that … I was just scared.”
Authorities have charged Lewellyn, who went to the same institute as Sutherland, but claims he barely knew her, for capital murder, kidnapping, corpse abuse and rape.
His wife has filed for divorce since his arrest.