Well, Santa Barbara dad has admitted
to taking his two kids to Mexico,
where he killed them and left their bodies.
Good evening I'm Jessica
God, I Marsili Carlo
Cecchetto has the week off.
Investigators say 40 year old
Matthew Taylor Coleman drove
from his home in Santa Barbara
with his two young kids on a
mission to kill them so that they,
in his words would not grow
up to be monsters easy.
It's Kirsten Holmes joins us
live with what we've learned
about the case today, Kirsten.
Hey, I'm here at the San Diego
FBI office where in my hand I'm
holding the criminal complaint
against Matthew Taylor Coleman.
This details the gruesome murder of his
two young children because he says.
He wanted to save the world after
he was enlightened by Q, Anon,
and Illuminati conspiracy theories
that he found on the Internet.
The complaint says that on Saturday,
August 7th, Matthew Taylor Coleman
took his 10 month old and two year
old from his home in Santa Barbara,
CA to Rosarito, Baja California.
The criminal complaint says
his wife called police,
concerned for his safety when he
left with their children because he
wasn't answering her or other family
members who were reaching out to him.
But she says she did not believe
that ** *** or their children
were in danger while in Rosarito,
the complaint says Coleman
murdered his children.
Using a spearfishing gun into their chests,
Coleman said he believed his children
were going to grow into monsters
and that he had to kill them after
he was enlightened by Q, Anon,
and Illuminati conspiracy theories.
He says he was also having visions and
signs that his wife had serpent DNA
and passed that DNA onto his children.
The court filing says Coleman believed
he was saving the world from monsters.
Coleman told investigators that
since he didn't have a car seat,
he placed his youngest child.
In a box for the ride to Mexico
and after he had killed them,
he discarded the spearfishing gun
and bloody clothes near a Creek
after investigators used the Find
My iPhone app to track him down,
he was arrested on Monday,
August 9th around 1:00 in the afternoon
at the San Ysidro Port of entry,
border officials noticed he was
returning to the country alone
without his small children and
they noted blood on his Mercedes
sprinter registration paperwork.
The bodies of the two toddlers.
Had been found hours earlier that day,
around 8:00 AM.
OK, so I read through this entire
criminal complaint a couple of times
and I got to tell you it is pretty
horrific and this comes just weeks
after the children's father Matthew
Coleman made an Instagram post
about how much he loves his family,
including those two small children
that he has confessed to killing.
We have this full complaint up on on our
website if you want to read it at cbs8.com,
but I gotta warn you,
it may not be suitable for all audiences.
Back
to you now Kirsten.
What is next in this case?
OK, so Coleman was in court today and
he will be arraigned on August 31st.
He is being held without bail but
August 31st is his arraignment
alright Chris and will keep track of
that and see what happens
during the court process.
Pearson Homes reporting
live for us tonight.
Chris and thank you.
Matthew Taylor Coleman
was an American citizen,
and so were his two young children and
because the crime happened in Mexico,
attorneys we talked with say US
FBI agents will be working with
Mexican authorities to piece
together their case and find justice.
While each side goes through their
own individual legal proceedings.
The US can still charge
you if you're a U.S.
citizen you committed
crimes against another U.S.
citizen in another country,
regardless of what happens in the
trial down there.
Attorney Mark Reichel says this is
only the beginning of what could
be a long legal proceeding because
of the international implications.