Julie Mitchell is accused of stabbing her husband and teenage daughter in Florida. (Mug shot from the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office; Courtroom and crime scene screenshot from Palm Beach affiliate WPTV/YouTube)
A council candidate in Florida is accused of stabbing her husband and 17-year-old daughter with a large kitchen knife and later allegedly told authorities “Satan lived in her home.”
Julie Mitchell, 54, faces multiple charges, including four counts of aggravated battery and two counts of resisting an officer with violence, online records show.
A probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime spells out the details of the case when a sergeant with the Tequesta Police Department responded to a stabbing call at the home on Golfview Drive on Thursday morning.
The daughter, who police noted in their report was crying and hysterical, told police her mother had a knife and was inside the house.
While en route, the sergeant was advised by dispatch the mother had stabbed the husband and the daughter with a knife.
The daughter was outside with a cut to her head. She said, “My mom just stabbed me and my dad,” the affidavit said.
The sergeant told her to stay outside while she went in.
Inside the home, two officers were trying to take control of Mitchell’s hands as she held a large kitchen knife in her right hand. The first words the defendant allegedly said were, “Demons are out to get her and she renounces to Satan,” the report said.
Officers released the knife from her hand, which fell on the kitchen counter and slid on the floor, and took Mitchell — who was covered in blood — into custody.
Mitchell’s husband had a cut to his upper left arm.
Paramedics took the three to the hospital and a crime scene investigation was launched.
While at the hospital, before any medicine was administered, Mitchell allegedly told the sergeant that “God still loves the world and he gave us his only son,” the document said.
When asked if she knew why she was at the hospital, she renounced Satan, the sergeant wrote.
“I asked her why she’s at the hospital and why she is covered in blood,” the sergeant wrote. “She told me that Satan lived in her home. When I asked her regarding stabbing, she told me that her husband, daughter and their dog are the devil so she sodomized her husband and stabbed her daughter in the heart. When I asked her if she thinks her daughter and husband are dead or alive, she said she thinks they’re both dead. She then wanted to take a break, and I stopped my interview.”
Mitchell was booked without bail into the Palm Beach County Jail on four counts of aggravated battery and two of resisting an officer with violence, online jail records show. Her public defender did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Law&Crime. Her next court date is set for Feb. 20.
Mitchell was running for a seat on the five-member Tequesta Village Council in the March 19 election. The status of her candidacy is not immediately clear. A spokesperson told The Palm Beach Post on Friday that Mitchell had not informed village officials of any change about her candidacy.
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