48 Hours did a show on
Scientology, specifically Jeremy Perkins, a paranoid schizophrenic who stabbed
his mother to death. Perkins parents were Scientologists (his mother was a
senior auditor at the Church of Scientology in Buffalo, NY) and did not believe
in psychiatric treatment.
Aired October 28, 2006
On March 13, 2003, Jeremy Perkins, a 28 year old untreated schizophrenic, stabbed his mother Elli 77 times.
She bled to death on her bedroom floor. Jeremy is currently being held at
Rochester Psychiatric Center, having been found not responsible for Elli's
murder by reason of mental disease or defect.
Perkins, his mother and father, his sister, and her husband are all members
of the Church of Scientology, a group that believes modern psychiatric medicine
derives from an ancient alien civilization's plot to drug and enslave humanity.
Scientologists like Tom Cruise vehemently and publicly oppose the
pharmacological treatment of mental illness. Unfortunately, Scientology's own
brand of therapy, called "auditing", is worthless.
She bled to death on her bedroom floor. Jeremy is currently being held at
Rochester Psychiatric Center, having been found not responsible for Elli's
murder by reason of mental disease or defect.
