Free Kill the Ones You Love by Robert Scott Page A

people were doing, and it wasn’t all about himself. He saw good in other people and considered them to be a child of God.
    â€œRobin and James Anstey had a shop in Bandon and thought very highly of Gabe. He was full of life and ready to take on the world. He loved the Gospel and liked to have discussions about it. My husband was an avid outdoorsman, and he and Gabe liked those kinds of things.
    â€œI attended the reception in Bandon after Jessica and he were married. They were very happy together. Later I met Kalea. He seemed to be a good husband and father. Gabe had a good relationship with Kalea, and she was well-behaved, loving and happy.”
    Pam once again became acquainted with Gabe when he, Jessica and Kalea moved to Oregon in 2009. “When he came back from Idaho, he reinitiated contact. He was a little less enthusiastic about life, but not out of the ordinary. He had responsibilities as a husband and father. We had them over for dinner and the only thing that stood out was that he seemed stressed out about getting work.”
    And then things started to change: “Gabe came over in the afternoon one day between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, 2009. He spent a long time [here] and did most of the talking. He was talking about mystical, magical kinds of things. He said he was a forerunner of Jesus Christ and that these were the Last Days. In other words, the Second Coming of Christ.
    â€œHe talked about a pre-mortal existence and he had been a dragon rider. Whether he was fantasizing or not, I’m not sure. But he said we had been together in the pre-mortal life and I had been his queen. Together with an army of Heaven, we had expelled Satan and his hosts from Heaven.
    â€œHe then told me he had done some things in this life that he wasn’t proud of. I told him we can be forgiven. Through repentance he could go forward and live a good life.
    â€œHe was very excited when he told me this. I kind of went along with him, and I asked what color dragon he rode. He said it was blue, so I asked him what color mine was, and he said he didn’t know.
    â€œHe was very serious about what he said. Gabe told me that I was his queen, and he knelt before me with tears in his eyes. He said that he would do anything for me. Then he said, ‘Please, just tell me what to do.’
    â€œCertainly, I thought that Gabe was under some kind of distress. So I reiterated that he should ask for repentance and lead a good life in the future. To this, he said that he liked coming over and talking to me. It made him feel calmer.
    â€œHe told me I needed to leave Bandon because it was going to become a dangerous place. It was an apocalyptic end-of-time kind of thing. I needed to leave the area to be out of harm’s way. I thought a lot of what he was saying was gibberish. It was very random and hard to follow.
    â€œThis whole visit lasted about three hours. When he left, he seemed to be much calmer. He gave me a big hug and said good-bye. When he left, I thought he had an emotional breakdown. I was concerned for his well-being.”

    Jesse McCoy saw Gabe around this time and said later, “I saw him at Mom’s house and he was drinking a lot. He was more than just drinking—he was belligerent drinking. He would drink a whole bottle of hard liquor at one time and get drunk. He was also openly using marijuana, even in front of Jessica. He did not give me a reason why he was doing these things.
    â€œHe was also addicted to video games. When I left there, he would call me on the phone and say that he was spending endless hours playing them. He even called up once and said that he had special powers from God. It was very alarming to me.”
    Boozing, smoking dope, addicted to video games, Gabe’s tenuous grip upon reality was becoming frayed to the breaking point. He’d always had a hard time telling fantasy from reality. Now the two had blended as one in a toxic mix of anxiety,