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5 min readOn a Thursday afternoon in Ohio, police responded to a shooting at a home on Virginia Drive. Three children were dead, their mother wounded, and one daughter had survived by running to a neighbor for help. The suspect was the father, Chad Doerman. When officers arrived, they found him in a field, refusing commands, and had to deploy a taser to take him into custody. What followed in the interrogation room was not a straightforward confession, but a fractured, disturbing conversation in which Doerman seemed to genuinely believe he was already dead and living in hell.
The Interrogation: A Man Who Says He Wasn’t There
From the moment detectives sat down with Chad Doerman, he presented a puzzle. He was disoriented, unsure of the day, and claimed he hadn’t slept since Monday. When asked what happened, he gave a strange, biblical answer: “We were women in hell. Like the world. Hell. It’s in the Bible, you shoot your first, second, third, well first your wife.” He quickly backtracked, saying he didn’t know what he meant, and then asked for a lawyer.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:05) **Case Setup & Initial Police Response** - The host introduces the case of a father who shot three children, wounded their mother, while one daughter escaped for help, then plays police dispatch and transport audio.
- 2 (04:14) **Interrogation Begins: Chad’s Initial Denial** - Detectives start questioning Chad, who claims he has no memory of the day’s events and repeatedly says he has "no clue" what happened.
- 3 (07:47) **Establishing the Timeline and Suspicions** - Detectives try to reconstruct Chad’s day, asking about his work and whether he came home early, while neighbors describe hearing a man yelling from the house.
- 4 (11:20) **Chad’s Plea for Help and Paranoia** - Chad reveals he has been experiencing paranoid thoughts for months, believing his food is being poisoned, and that he asked his family for help but was ignored.
- 5 (14:00) **The Confession Begins: "Let Them Go to Heaven"** - Detectives confront Chad with the possibility he retrieved his rifle from the safe, and he begins to articulate his motive: he wanted to send his family to heaven because they are "living in hell."
- 6 (16:56) **Confronting Denial: "You Were There"** - The detective firmly tells Chad he was at the scene, but Chad continues to dissociate, claiming he was at work and "ain't no way I went home."
- 7 (19:11) **The "Two Chads" Theory** - Detectives introduce the concept of a "good Chad" and a "bad Chad" to help Chad reconcile his actions with his self-image, leading to a partial admission.
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Show Notes
This episode features police audio from Chad’s transport and station interrogation, along with interviews with neighbors. Investigators question him about the shooting, his memory, and his state of mind. The episode also recounts the survivors’ accounts and the case’s eventual plea and sentence.
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