KILLER WEED! Woman Gets Probation for Stabbing Boyfriend 108 Times While High On Marijuana

JAN 22, 2024 (VENTURA COUNTY) -- The California woman who was convicted of killing her boyfriend by stabbing him 108 times during a “cannabis-induced psychosis” received a slap on the wrist Tuesday.

Bryn Spejcher, 33, was sentenced to two years’ probation and was ordered to perform 100 hours of community service after being found guilty of killing her new boyfriend, Chad O’Melia, according to the Ventura County Star.

Ventura County Superior Court Judge David Worley ruled that Spejcher “had no control over her actions” when she entered into a psychotic episode and stabbed O’Melia, 26, 108 times in his Thousand Oaks apartment on May 28, 2018.

Experts for the prosecution and defense both found that the marijuana bong hit given to Spejcher threw the woman into the deadly psychotic episode.
“From that point forward, she had no control over her actions,” Worley said, according to the outlet.

Bryn Spejcher was found guilty in December 2023 of involuntary manslaughter for killing her boyfriend, Chad O’Melia, in May 2018. Ventura County Sheriff’s Office
Spejcher and O’Melia had been seeing each other for a few weeks before she brutally murdered the 26-year-old accountant.

After Spejcher had killed O’Melia, law enforcement found the woman covered in blood, hysterically crying next to her boyfriend’s body, still gripping the knife.

She then plunged the knife into her throat when police attempted to disarm her.

Chad O’Melia had only been seeing Spejcher for a few weeks before she killed him after smoking pot at his apartment. Facebook

“There is no winner in this tragedy,” said Brendan O’Melia, the victim’s uncle. “There can be, however, accountability.”

Spejcher’s lawyer, Bob Schwartz, called Judge Worley’s ruling against his client the “right and courageous thing.”

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