Kyle Odom appears to be a man suffering from a paranoid form of mental illness.

But Kyle Odom would argue that he's "100% sane, 0% crazy" and has proof that "hypersexual" and "aggressive" martians are on Earth and firmly established at the highest rungs of society.

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The man accused of shooting a church pastor in Idaho six times after Sunday service, and then throwing a handful of items over the White House fence, is currently in police custody.

He was wanted for attempted first-degree murder before he was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon.

A manifesto he sent to media, however, has been published online and, in pieces, on Twitter.

Pages of apparent letter from Kyle Odom being posted to KHQcom now. Letter was received by #KHQ this morning. pic.twitter.com/vRp2r45HNg — Jeff Hite (@KHQJeff) March 9, 2016

It reveals a tragic descent into madness by a once-promising doctoral candidate who believed aliens were trying to take control of his mind and the only way to stop them was to shoot a man and alert President Barack Obama.



A selfie of Kyle Odom as seen on his Facebook page. Image: Facebook/kyle odom

"It's hard to imagine I know," Odom writes in his manifesto. "Nonetheless, it's all true."

Who is Kyle Odom and what did he do?

Kyle Odom is a former Marine who was arrested by U.S. Secret Service agents, without incident, after allegedly throwing items over the fence at the White House.

Coeur d'Alene Police Chief Lee White speaks during a news conference Monday, March 7, 2016, with a photo of Kyle Andrew Odom in the background in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Image: Kathy Plonka/The Spokesman-Review, via AP

Police say there were USB sticks, among other items, thrown onto the White House lawn.

Odom had been wanted by police in Idaho for allegedly shooting Tim Remington, a church pastor, six times on Sunday.

Remington, who is married and has four children, survived, but was left with no feeling in his right arm and struggling to speak.

Tim Remington leads the prayer during a Ted Cruz rally in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on March 5, 2016. Image: Kathy Plonka / The Spokesman-Review, via AP

Odom, who has no criminal record but does have a history of mental illness, according to the Associated Press, sent a number of media outlets a manifesto in which he claims he took the actions due to the influence of martians.

Why did he shoot the pastor?

Odom doesn't directly mention shooting Pastor Tim Remington in the manifesto.

He does, however, say that Remington was a martian who showed his face to Odom in the process of trying to convince him to join the church.

Writes Odom: "We were in mid conversation when he suddenly revealed himself to me. I have no clue how he did it, but it looked as if his human face became his real face. It happened for only 1-2 seconds, but I was able to draw a sketch of what I saw."

This is what he says he saw.

He set his Facebook avatar to the image on Tuesday, hours before he threw the items over the White House fence.

He says he did what he did to "bring this to the public's attention" and is "a good person."

"The people I killed are not what you think," he says.

While police have released scant details into what may have driven Odom to attempt to kill the pastor, he says his torments began when a member of the church named John Padula began sending him messages.

Padula was a meth addict for 17 years before going through the church's program seven years ago. He is currently in charge of outreach there.



Remington and his wife have been with The Altar Church for nearly two decades. They have specialized in the treatment of drug and alcohol addiction.

The church, Padula told the Associated Press, "has extensive programs, including in-patient rehabilitation, for addicts."

Soon, Tim Remington was texting Odom, too, sending him passages from the Bible.

Padula, for his part, told police that Odom had no connection with the church before showing up before services early Sunday morning, and shooting the pastor.

Odom, meanwhile, began reading between the lines of the reported messages and believed them to be threats from an alien race.

Soon after that he says he began hearing voices, first as a lyric to a "Talking Heads" song ("Sister, sister, he's just a plaything / We wanna make him stay up all night") and later a voice that said he was going to be "sacrificed like Jesus."

He began to believe that people who sniff near him are in fact martians who are making their presence known.

He encountered them, on more than one occasion, on airplanes, he believed. Sometimes he feared they were going to crash the plane.

Twice, he attempted suicide.

Here's what he "knows" about the martians

The extraterrestrials that tormented Odom's mind are, he says, "millions of years more advanced" than humans, and use President Obama as their plaything.

He says the martians use humans at their "playthings" — including Obama — and that they are aggressive and "hypersexual."

In his letter to President Obama, seen in the manifesto and, one would assume, included in the documents through onto the White House lawn, Odom says it upsets him to hear about "the things they do to you," confides he too is struggling with the martians and says, "I don't know you personally, but they've shown me a lot about you. You're an amazing person."

He also asks why Obama is so afraid to retaliate, reminding the president, "Kennedy wasn't."

He believes the martians have, like in "Men in Black," infiltrated the highest levels of American and Israeli society.

In Odom's mind, Nancy Pelosi is an alien. As are Senators Tim Scott, Kelly Ayote and Richard Durbin, and "every single Israeli prime minister since 1948."

"This is by no means an all-inclusive list," writes Odom. "Martians are ubiquitous. They exist at every level of society in every nation."

While the extent of Odom's illness is unknown, the above delusions resemble a paranoid type schizophrenia, which the U.S. government defines as a mental illness that involves false beliefs of being persecuted against.

"People with paranoid schizophrenia may have mistaken beliefs (delusions) that one or more people are plotting against them or their loved ones," reads the NIH's website on the subject.

"It is difficult or impossible for others to convince them that they are not the target of a plot. People with this condition may spend a lot of time thinking about how to protect themselves from the person or people they believe are trying to harm them."

Some information in this report is provided by the Associated Press.