Florida dad admits killings to reporters, blames crime on 'spirit'

Dad admits killings to reporters, blames crime on 'spirit'
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NEW: Warrant indicated victims were stabbed, throats slashed, paper reports

NEW: Mesac Damas admits killings, tells reporter he wants to be executed

NEW: He blames the crime on his mother-in-law's "spirit"

Damas, 32, faces murder charges in the deaths of his wife and five children

(CNN) -- A Florida man admitted to reporters that he killed his wife and five "innocent" children, adding that he wants to be executed "right away" so he can be buried with them on Saturday.

Mesac Damas, 32, said he wanted to take his own life, but did not have the courage to go through with it, "because if you kill yourself, you're not going to heaven."

Damas made the statements to a Naples Daily News reporter as he was being led into a Haitian police vehicle in Port-au-Prince. Damas was returned to the United States late Tuesday following his capture in Haiti.
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Naples family of six found dead

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Man sought whose wife, 5 children killed
Florida authorities were searching Sunday for a 33-year-old man after his wife and five children were found dead in their Naples, Florida, home. "I can tell you that in no uncertain terms this is the most horrific and violent event this community has ever experienced," Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said. full story

Naples family of six found dead
Posted: Sep 20, 2009 12:55 AM EDT
Updated: Sep 20, 2009 9:25 AM EDT

Mesac Damas
A neighbor provided this photo of one of Damas' children, which was posted on his Facebook page.
The crime happened in the Stratford Place community
A man wanted for questioning in the slaying of his wife and five children in North Naples has fled to Haiti, according to his father.

In an interview with the Naples Daily News, the man's father said Mesac Damas called his brother from Haiti, though he did not say when.

Detectives found the bodies of Mesac Damas' family at 864 Hampton Circle around 6:30 p.m. while conducting a welfare check.

Jim Williams, chief investigator with the Collier County Sheriff's Office, talked to the Naples Daily News at the scene.

He told them Damas' sister-in-law contacted authorities after she hadn't heard from her sister.

"When the officer walked in the house to do a check, he found a deceased person," Williams told the Naples Daily News. "As he walked through the house to see if anyone else was inside, he found other persons deceased."

The bodies were still in the home as of early Sunday morning.

Williams also told the Naples Daily News that reports that the family members were shot were erroneous, but he wouldn't elaborate on a cause of death.

Investigators continue to walk in and out of the home in white scrubs or "clean suits." They removed several brown bags of evidence around 4:15 a.m.
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