Widow Seeks New Guardian

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Jones denies having a mental illness and does not take prescription medications, other than for digestive problems.Jones had no one to champion her cause.

Neither she nor her brothers had children, and her last sibling died a year ago.She was in her 50s when she married for the first and only time.

Her husband was a neighbor and good friend, David Jones, who was in his 80s and whose second wife had died.

The couple had plans to travel, but he fell ill and died three years later.

After his death, Helen Jones lost touch with his two children, David and Helen.Contacted by The Times, her late husband's relatives were outraged by Jones' situation and vowed to help."I got a phone call from my mother, and she started telling me this long story and I said: You've got to be kidding me," Tomazin said.

"Even though they were only together three years, as soon as we knew she needed help, here we are."When he first visited Jones, she pulled out photos of him as a teenager, and Tomazin said he felt the bond of family.

After several visits — and prodding by his parents — he agreed to take on the responsibility."I'm trustworthy.

That's what it comes down to," said Tomazin, who owns a horse ranch and provides therapy for children with autism and Asperger's syndrome.

"I'll take care of Helen.

I'll fight very diligently for her." He said that the 300-mile distance between his house and hers shouldn't be a problem.

He...

Eryk Drej now competent to stand trial

...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b, which is a mental disorder that is characterized by delusions and bizarre behavior.

"I know that they probably wouldn't want him held at the hospital," McVey said, but "I'm not sure if the jail would take that up without some advance notice."The judge ordered Drej to be taken back to the hospital, but if other arrangements could be set up with the jail and Drej's competency wouldn't be in jeopardy, then he could look at transferring.In June, police found Drej standing outside his mother's home with a 9 mm pistol and a shotgun, refusing to drop his weapons and saying to police "you'll have to kill me," courtroom documents show.

During an interview with American Fork police detectives, Drej said he killed his brother because "he believed Lukasz was going to kill an unknown young female and sell her organs on the black market."Police say Drej also told detectives he had a vision his younger brother was going to harm him in some way and to protect himself, as well as the unknown female, Drej left smiley faces in his home to ward off evil.

This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page D1.

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Woman killed 'to go to heaven'

...ba href=/schizophrenia/a/b about six months before Ms Hollis's death.

During the judge-only trial, Mr Renete claimed Ms Hollis had seen him trying to cut his wrists and said she did not blame people for wanting to suicide.

"He took it to mean that she wanted to suicide, but did not have the courage to do it herself," a psychiatric report tendered to the court said.

"It seems that there was some discussion about the religious significance of suicide and that Ms Hollis did not want to go to purgatory." The report also said Mr Renete believed a storm prior to the killing was God "telling him to help Tracy Hollis suicide".

Forty-year-old Ms Hollis was found dead in Mr Renete's room after her throat had been cut on February 19, 2005.

Mr Renete was later found collapsed on the roadside wrapped in a sheet next to his bicycle that he had been riding.

He told doctors he had severed his penis and cut himself as punishment for what he had done, and that he planned to die.

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