The boyfriend of 28-year-old Milwaukee woman who was found slain along with her 4-year-old daughter - in a house that had been burned down to ashes - has reportedly admitted to committing the murders. During his interrogation by authorities who caught up to him in Arkansas, Patrick D. Fowler, 33, opened up in great detail about committing the acts. Detectives who sat in on his confession were taken step-by-step through the heinous knife attacks that preceded the fire, and then were given a bit of insight into what could bring Fowler to go such lengths following what amounted to a month-long romance with Jessica Ellenberger, when he cited lyrics from Eminem's "Space Bound."
"We touch/ I feel a rush/ We clutch/ It isn't much but it's enough to make me wonder what's in store for us/
It's lust/ It's torturous/ You must be a sorceress 'cause you just did the impossible — Gained my trust/
Don't play games; it'll be dangerous if you f**k me over/
'Cause if I get burnt I'ma show you what it's like to hurt/
'Cause I've been treated like dirt before you and love is "evol"/
Spell it backwards. I'll show ya."
Fowler had recited the lyrics at one of the interrogator's requests. He had just gotten through telling how he snapped on March 19, slitting Ellenberger's throat and tearing through her body with countless stabs, first with one knife, then with one in each hand, as young Madyson Marshel cried in terror. He also explained having moved on to the child when he was done, spending little time as he plunged a knife through her one time "like a Japanese samurai." According to Fowler, rage had been building up in him throughout their time seeing one another, with him feeling as though she had treated him "like a dog." He said he felt Ellenberger was "ripping out his soul," detectives say, and that he feared she wouldn't truly commit to him. Realizing the predicament he had put himself, Fowler chose to suppress an urgent call to commit suicide and leave his body laying besides the two he had left lifeless, and to torch the property instead.
When asked whether in setting the home on fire, he felt he would be covering up the murders, Fowler responded, "There's no way to cover up that truth."
Source: jsonline.com
