CLERMONT COUNTY, OHIO: The friends and neighbors of Chad Doerman, who is accused of lining up his three sons and executing them, have disclosed alarming details about his rage and abusive treatment of his family. The 32-year-old Ohio father is currently being held on $20 million bail for three charges of aggravated murder in the shooting deaths of his three boys, ages 3, 4, and 7.
Doerman was arrested after officers responded to the home in Monroe Township shortly before 4:30 pm Thursday following two 911 calls, one apparently from the mother and another from a passing motorist who said a girl was running down the street saying her father was killing people. Upon their arrival, the deputies found three boys outside the home with gunshot wounds. Despite their relentless measures to save their lives, the three boys died at the scene. According to the sheriff's office, the victim’s mother, who was not identified, was outside the home and had suffered a gunshot to the hand while trying to shield her sons from their father.
Doerman 'treated his family like s**t'
Following Doerman’s arrest, a neighbor who witnessed the aftermath of the shooting said he's seen Doerman treat both his wife and children poorly. "He was angry every day," Richard Kincannon said, adding "There wasn't a day he didn't yell at his wife and kids out there." He continued by noting that the accused father had a bad temper and he used “yell all the time and treated (his wife) like s***,” WCPO reported. Backing Kincannon’s claims, Doerman’s friend Mark Holland said that “He had a bad temper, really bad. I think he was a bomb ready to explode.”
These claims came after, Doerman’s father expressed that he is “still trying to comprehend” how his son could have committed the crime. Keith said he and his wife have “no answers” to the brutality as he noted that his son “just snapped." “There was something going on in his life that he couldn't handle anymore. I can't talk to him, they aren't letting me talk to him so I don't have any answers. He probably hid a lot of stuff from me,” he told DailyMail. Additionally, the father asserted that his son was a "fun-loving guy" and that he had no prior criminal history.
Doerman admits to planning the murders for months
Doerman allegedly told police that he had been planning the heinous crime for months. According to court records, the 32-year-old "confessed to planning and carrying out the deaths of the victims involved for several months.” Clermont County’s chief prosecutor of municipal court David Gast called the killings the worst crime he’d ever seen. “The trauma that this man has inflicted on his family, community, law enforcement, first responders, and all the rest of us is unspeakable. There has been a full admission in this case, the case is still new we’re still discovering facts. But the evil horror of what we know is impossible to process,” Gast told the court.
