Dr. Insanity - Woman Shocked After Finding Demonic Brother's Evil Secret

Episode Date: February 28, 2026

This is Natalie. And she has just discovered her mother in her bed, with a kitchen knife in her neck. At first, officers thought it was a burglary gone wrong, but something about the scene didn’t make sense. The more they spoke with the victim’s daughter, the clearer it became that this was no random break-in at all. It was a calculated murder — one that would soon reveal itself as the most vile and disturbing case the Lima Police Department had seen in years… and it was carried out by someone who believed he was fulfilling a prophecy… This video was made for educational purposes only. The video is presented to provide genuine footage of police incidents to promote transparency in government while providing educational, informative and newsworthy content allowing viewers to examine and assess public safety material. This is a fact-checked documentary using authoritative sources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oh my God. Last time anyone seen her was last night around 10, 10, 10.30? Yeah. Never thought a million years I'd be the worst. This is Natalie, and she has just discovered her mother in her bed with a kitchen knife in her neck. You see it? Yeah. She's still gurgling, man.

She's cold, though. I saw everything I start throwing. I was like to death. Oh my god, and then my car is gone. At first, officers thought it was a burglary gone wrong, but something about the scene didn't make sense. It was as if the knife had appeared out of nowhere, no struggle, no noise,

no sign of anyone entering or leaving. But the more they spoke with the victim's daughter, the clearer it became that this was no random break-in at all, and it was carried out by someone who believed he was fulfilling, A prophecy. He always would say he's going to kill me and Jay. We're next. He was mumbled on that last night when we walked in.

Can I ask you something straight up? Did you take out, Rachel? It's Wednesday morning, May 27th, when Ohio police receive a 911 call from a distressed woman reporting what she believes is a burglary that left her mother severely injured. Caller? Yeah.

Are you the one that has the knife in their neck? No, but I'm bombed! Station all units, 57B, East KB, 908, East KB, subject is not breathing. Stay on the phone with me, okay? Caller, do you know who did it to her? Oh my God, no! Okay, I've got an ambulance on the way, so just stay on the phone with me, okay? Dispatch immediately sends officers racing to the address.

They arrive prepared to save a victim, but instead, they walk into something that would seriously shock them. Where's he at? We're at? My mom. We're at. Ma'am, we're at. Excuse me. We're at.

I need here. Okay. Move, move. We're at. Natalie's mother, 71-year-old Rachel Cheney, lies in her bed, already cold to the touch, with a kitchen knife driven deep into her neck. Upstairs in Natalie's bedroom, her boyfriend, Jonathan, is. found unharmed. Go back here, okay?

Sure. In the car? Yeah, have got anything on you? Just my money. She's still gurgling, man. She's cold, though. When I pulled up, so we went in there, and I went to get first aid because I thought she just got stabbed.

She's cold, and then so we continue to search the house and found that dude upstairs bedroom with the door closed. So we detained him and pulled him out here. I saw a very thing I started growing toes. I like just dabbing the neck. It said she's cold. Now inside on her bed with a knife but I'm sticking out of her neck.

A female? Elderly. Yeah. Elderly. Who is the girl that they just took out of her? Daug, daughter. She found her? Yeah.

Phone owner and her boyfriend was, they were both up to her sleep, I guess, and she came down. She's cold as a touch. She's all dried. So she didn't know what? Yeah. No.

It's a big knife, and it's in deep, so. Okay. barely could be self-inflicted. Oh my God. Last time anyone seen her was last night around 10, 10.30. Asked if you wanted to tacos and now you guys went to sleep. Okay. And he was sitting out here.

Yeah. Whose house is this? Mine mom. But she just recently put it in my name. Okay, so it's your house. Well, I don't know. You give us consent to search us? Yeah.

Okay. Oh, my God. and then my car is born. What strikes officers as strange is that nothing inside the house appears stolen, and there are no signs of forced entry anywhere. The only thing missing is Natalie's car. With no evidence of an intruder, detectives can't roll anyone out. Not even Natalie or her boyfriend, Jonathan.

At this point, everyone inside the home is a possible suspect. If someone within the household was responsible, detectives need to find out who, and more importantly, why. Natalie and Jonathan are both secured in patrol vehicles and are driven to the station for further questioning. Detectives need to hear their accounts if they're going to piece together what really happened inside that house and how it ended with Rachel dead. Meanwhile, additional units begin searching for Natalie's vehicle. What the detectives don't yet understand is that they already hold half the puzzle to Rachel's murder,

and the other half is closer than they realize. Soon, detectives will sit down with the man at the center of it all, to see firsthand how delusion can twist murder into something almost justified. But detectives still don't grasp how close they are to uncovering the truth. To get there, they need answers from Natalie and Jonathan, the only two who can shed light on what really happened inside that house. When they arrive at the police station, they're separated into detail. two different rooms, and their interviews begin simultaneously. This way, detectives can ask them the same questions and see if their stories match. I cannot believe this is something like that. That's horrible.

She's all I had. I went downstairs this morning. What time was this? I know it was maybe close to 8 o'clock. I didn't check on her then, so I figured she was sleeping because usually she calls and So I stayed upstairs and it was dark and I seen this stuff on her face and I thought, what is that? And I turned on the line. There's this big knife sticking out of her neck right there. So I didn't go in there anymore.

And then I walked outside because I needed to get some air. And then I noticed my car is gone. I was going to make some coffee. I was sitting out there sitting on the porch and she came down and said somebody killed her. mom. We didn't realize the car was gone until she called 911. She's like, oh my God, my car's gone too. I didn't

hear anything this morning. I'm a pretty late sleeper. Plus the dogs there. Right. Detectives can't rule out Natalie and Jonathan just yet. They seem genuine, distraught even. But with no forced entry, no other suspects

and them being close relatives, the possibility still lingers that they could somehow be involved. But then, in the middle of her statement, Natalie remembers something, something she hadn't even thought to mention before. Along with her car, her brother Joseph, who also lives in the house, is missing. In her panic over finding her mother, she hadn't realized it until now. And that's when the case suddenly takes a very different turn. With Joseph and Natalie's car missing, detectives shift focus, pressing Natalie about her brother's behavior.

Your brother, he had his... She's so frantic like eight years ago. He used to go to the FBI. Somebody in the FBI, and they didn't believe him, I guess, and he let it go for a while. And he went back up there, and I think he had one of his little fits, whatever. and they handcuffed him and I think they took him to St. Rita's or Columbus because he was in Columbus,

the mental hospital for about a week. How long ago was it about six months ago, you said? Longer than? Eight years ago. And he was at the tape bed and he never took him. He thinks he don't need him. You know what else he's been diagnosed with? No, I barely know him.

He's just always talking off the law stuff. like related to Dillinger, this person, this person, he's just out there. On more than one occasion, Joseph had gone to the FBI with his mafia delusions, episodes that eventually landed him in a mental facility. But when doctors evaluated him, they concluded nothing was wrong and released him almost immediately. Without medication or treatment, his condition only grew worse. And even though Joseph was missing, along with his sister's car, on the very same day as his mother's inexplicable murder, detectives still don't know what to make of this and are unsure about his involvement.

To them, he seemed more like a victim of his own illness. Someone failed by the system. But then, Natalie says this. The only thing she'd ever asked him was to take her up and down the stairs so she could go places. That's all she's ever asked him. It was all on me all the time. He always would say he's going to kill me and Jay, and you guys are going to kill us.

He has a knife. A knife? What kind of knife is he? Like a pocket knife. And he always carries it? Mm-hmm. Okay. Natalie reveals something disturbing.

Her brother Joseph had repeatedly threatened to kill her and the rest of their family. If he was behind his mother's death, it would explain why no one. one heard an intruder enter the home and why he fled in Natalie's car. Suddenly, everything begins to make sense. The missing vehicle, the strange stabbing, the lack of forced entry, and the brother with untreated schizophrenia who'd been making violent threats. Police don't know it yet, but what seems like a certain murder charge for Joseph will soon become a far more complicated case than they realize. Luckily for detective,

the patrol units searching for Natalie's car make a breakthrough. They've located her car and pulled it over without incident, and behind the wheel is none other than her brother, Joseph Cheney. He's taken into custody without resistance and brought into the station for questioning, now considered the prime suspect in his mother's murder. I know that wife's got a fucking jump you, They know Marks with Nards.

I know all three of them are. Stave and that's why his neck's like that. He has his lines on the neck. And like, he has the one that banged me up. Trying to kill the mother. I'm not fucking retarded. I don't like them neither. I'm a lady.

So what do you do you guys about? Chad. You guys got a preference? Anything usually not. Water here? From the moment Joseph steps out of the patrol car to be escorted into the station, officers notice he's already mumbling and rambling incoherently. At first, detectives think it's just an act, a tactic to seem legally insane.

But as they begin interrogating him, it quickly becomes clear. Something is deeply wrong. So tell me what's going on. I heard you, you were walking around downtown. Oh, I always take loss because I get bored sitting at home. My family used to Lombardos and then Ilovers, and it used to be Maddox's back in the day with the O'Donels and Spike O'Donnell Bar downtown.

How are you related to them? Well, I'm related to Joseph Claudia Maddox from the 1800. I believe he's my great, great, great uncle, I think. He worked for the Cablans and Al-Cablon and the Chicago outfit and everything. As soon as the detective starts talking to Joseph, he begins referencing mafia names. People like Al Capone, Spike O'Donnell, and Frank McEarlane from the old Chicago gangs of the 1920s and 30s. It's the first clear confirmation of what his sister had told them, that Joseph suffers from hallucinations and schizophrenia.

To the detective, those claims aren't important, and instead he smoothly shifts the conversation towards what really matters. the details of Rachel's murder and how Joseph might be involved. What was going on last night? Anything major? Nothing. Just a lot of aggravation. We're dead weight hanging around. Explain that to me. Just a bunch of old people around when they claim to you.

They wait your kids down and they rob you every day. But the problem is they got bigger sons than daughters than you and me. Everything. If you really want to know, there's a lot of you and they're going to know there's a lot of you. Another one, though, there's a lot of clingers walking around out on County here lately, weighing down to youth RAs. I mean, you're still young and stuff. Like, say, if you got divorced want to start over, you should be all start over in a problem. It's a goddamn clangers walking around, and it's affecting everybody.

Would you call her a clinger? Yeah, she's pretty much a clinger. She can't stop showing up people's houses, and neither can her goddamn daughter. Who's her daughter? I think they say it's not a lie. I mean, Nadele. I always thought it was not a lie, but whatever. Okay.

The only thing to do to get rid of them is what they used to do to them. They just shoot them in their heads and they throw them a goddamn barners. And they just say, they just do a sheriff and a police, a state trooper, and mob and street, and cop her up. And they just get rid of them other fuckers. Yeah, hopefully you'll think I'm a clinger. No, no, really. Joseph refers to his mother and sister as clingers.

To the detective, it's a clear sign of deep resentment. Evidence of a family conflict that may have escalated the night before. So he decides to confront Joseph directly, asking what really happened that night. You talked to Rachel last night? No. I think I brought her up the ramp and I put her, helped her in bed and that was in the other car. What time is that? I don't even remember.

Whose car were you in today? I guess that's now. I had a Lai's car or Natalie or Alie would have spelled her name. I mean, I don't know. Did she let you take the car? No, I just dug it. Where'd you find the keys at? They were on the kitchen table.

Okay. What time did you leave the house with the car? I don't remember it. The daylight? 1.302 o'clock. In the morning? Yeah. There's been problems all my life with my family back and forth

with whose kids or who, who's better, and who. Your dad is who outranks who. Well, my mom always says change. My mom always said, well, supposedly she's my mother, but I don't know she's my mom. She might be my crazy hand from down the street goes around popping people on the head with a fucking bull this way. What's her name? I think it's, I think it's Rachel, but they used to call her Rachel with an EA with an EA. You get along with her right?

Not really. I mean, sometimes I do sometimes. She's a massive control freak and everything, and she drives people crazy. I don't know she does it on goddamn part of us. How old is she? Or she on a brain twister. How old is she? I don't know how she'd call it.

She was probably in her 60s of 70s. Despite his mental illness, Joseph is completely cooperative with a detective. Calm, open, and not trying to hide a thing. Seeing that, the detective takes the chance to ask the one question that matters most, if he had anything to do with his mother's death. Joseph's answer is exactly what the detective suspected,

but his reason for it is deeply unsettling. I'm not beat around the bush with you, because I kind of like to get to see what the person's like. That's why we have this conversation and we talk. Somebody ended up dead at your house last night. I think you know that. I think you pretty much had enough. From what I've seen here, I kind of like you.

You kind of just tell it straight as it is, you know? You just say, screw it, I don't care anybody likes it, this is how I feel. I'm kind of like that, okay? Have you ever taken out a clinger? I might have taken out a few clangers in my life. When's the last one you took out? I don't know. It's been a while.

I bet it's less. Sometimes I help out family members and I pest them off. And I don't even know because they got machines and gadgets that they use in brain twisters and cuckers. Yeah. And they shove them right up. and they hook them up to your goddamn brain. You got a gun? No, I don't have a gun.

Oh, well, then you didn't take care of that clinger. I might have took care of a few clingers back when I was a kid. Oh, I was talking about last night. There's eight and nine-year-olds and ten-year-olds that they train in Chicago and California all day long, and they pop up on steroids. And the ones that arrested me and all those big muscular tattoo f***s, they shoot them in the heads all goddamn day long to laugh at them. Who would have? I want to get rid of Rachel.

Everybody wants to get her over. Is your bag cleaner? She's a bag cleaner unless they're using her for money. Why doesn't anybody ever have the nuts then to step up and take care of her? Well, one reason I'm on a goddamn cook machine and a brain twister. Okay. So I would have killed her years ago. Sometimes I think she loves me, and then she's, then she, I don't know, like, like an ally or something.

And they're really big. She created crimes on me in my family, if I really want to know. I'm kind of tired of the crimes created on me and my family. Why didn't someone take out, if so many people want to get rid of Rachel, why didn't someone step up and do it? She might have a more powerful family of what you think, just being a Miller related to the Miller. Goal younger and all of them, Jesse James.

Just being a Miller is powerful enough. Can I ask you something straight out? Do you take out, Rachel? Yeah, I did you guys a favor. I did the whole family a favor. The Muller's of numbers and the Jesse James's. How'd you do it? I did it with a knife right in her head.

If I had a piss, I just got her. I'd be honest with, I was planning on killing her by having no ass man head over to New York or Chicago to check him with my family to get out of the air. I got a question, because with a knife, that's personal, especially to the head. Hey, to be honest with I did it with a gun or anything. I did her a favor if you really want to know.

What do you mean? I did you a favor. I did a lot of millers around here. Favors. I mean, how do you think he did as a favor? I don't know. Because it's just the nuisance of the thing running around and stuff and everything. And she's in misery all the time and pain and delusional.

So I did her a favor. Did you eat? Have you eaten yet? No. You want some food? Yeah. On my gloves. Come on, heat.

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Let me run and get this for you real quick. All right. I, bud, you take care. I'll be back. I'm going to get you some food because I know it's lunchtime, okay? They want you to, they want you to get, and I'm not crazy or anything, and I'm not stupid. I'm not saying you are. That's why I went straight forward with you. I'm trying to be straightforward with you guys and the ones that think they're better than everybody else. I want you to clean off this battleship, Dak.

Well, that's not what I'm doing. I want to get you some food because I know you got chew. I know you've been out and about. I haven't slept a whole lot, and I'll get you some food so you can eat. All right, buddy. Okay. No ulterior motive here. I already, you already told me that you killed her, so what else do I need from you? You know what I mean? As if I killed, I could have been dreaming out of there because they smoke weed around me, and now they could have went around killing people because she's high all the goddamn time with Jay.

Well, you do exactly how she was killed, so, and she has got to figure out. All right, I'll give you your food. Joseph admits to killing his mother almost instantly, claiming he'd done something good, even suggesting he had done the police a favor. In his mind, his mother had committed crimes against the family, his delusional reference to the gangsters he believed he was related to. In a heartbreaking confession, one that might have been prevented if Joseph had received proper treatment for his schizophrenia, but years earlier, doctors had released him, insisting nothing was wrong.

His condition only worsened, feeding his delusions, and ultimately leading to his mother's murder. After his arrest, Joseph pleads not guilty by reason of insanity, and he's transferred to a secure psychiatric facility for evaluation and treatment. Doctors there are tasked with determining whether Joseph is mentally competent to stand trial, and whether he truly understood his actions at the time of the murder. It would take more than two years of psychiatric care and evaluation before doctors finally deemed him competent enough to face prosecution. Once restored to competency, Joseph Cheney was trained.

charged with two counts of murder and one count of felonious assault. He later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.