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WEBVTT N CIRCLESOUTSIDE.YOU SHOULD BE WARNED THIS STORYCAN BE DISTURBING TO SOME.MAY 8, ALBUQUERQUE POLICE SEARCHTHROUGH A HOME ON CANDELARIAROAD.THEY'RE DOING A WELFARE CHECKFOR A SOCIAL WORKER NAMEDCAROLYN MCARTHUR.THE OFFICERS SEE A CELL PHONEAND CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT THEY FINDNEXT.>> THERE IS NO ONE THERE.IT IS THE SAME THING.WHAT?CHRIS: THEY FIND MCARTHUR'SREMAINS IN A CARD BOARD BOX.>> WE FOUND HER IN A BOX.SHE IS DEAD.CHRIS: JUST HOURS EARLIER,POLICE WERE AT THAT HOUSE TOTAKE CAROLYN'S SON, JOHN GABRIELMCARTHUR TO THE HOSPITAL FORMENTAL ISSUES.THEY WENT BACK TO THE HOUSEAFTER A HOSPITAL EMPLOYEE TOLDPOLICE JOHN SAID HE DRUGGED HISMOTHER.AFTER THEY FOUND THE BODY, THEYARRESTED JOHN AT THE HOSPITAL.A HAUNTING INTERVIEW WITHDETECTIVES FOLLOWS.>> I JUST WANTED TO DIE FOR ALONG TIME.[BLEEP]>> I'M READY TO DIE.CHRIS: JOHN MCARTHUR TELLSPOLICE HIS MOTHER ABUSED HIM ANDTOOK AWAY HIS PAIR OF KEYS TOTHE HOME THEY SHARED.MCARTHUR ADMITS HE STRANGLED HERTO DEATH.>> RAPTURE AND A BLANKET, PUTHER IN A BOX.CHRIS: MCARTHUR ALSO EXPLAINSTHAT HE SUFFERS FROM AN UNKNOWNMENTAL DISORDER.>> I HAVE SOMETIMES NO PHYSICALCONTROL OF MY BODY.IT IS LIKE BEING POSSESSED BUTWORSE.

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New video from the Albuquerque Police Department shows officers searching through a Northwest Albuquerque home for a social worker named Carolyn McArthur on May 8. Police reports show officers came to the same house earlier that day to transport Carolyn’s son, John Gabriel McArthur to Kaseman Hospital to receive mental health treatment. They didn’t notice the box in the front yard the first visit. An employee at Kaseman Hospital told police John McArthur said he’d drugged his mother. Police return to the home to ensure her safety. On the second visit, officer-worn lapel cameras capture investigators finding a cardboard box with Carolyn McArthur’s remains. John McArthur was arrested at the hospital. According to a police report, Carolyn had sought mental treatments for her son prior to her death. Audio recordings reveal the horrifying interview between John McArthur and detectives. McArthur admits to brutally strangling his mother, and says she abused him. “Wrapped her up in a blanket, put her in a box. Done, relief. Killed the thing I hated most. I wanted that thing dead for decades,” he said. McArthur tells the detectives he put a powdered drug called “devil’s breath” in Carolyn’s drink to get her to confess how she abused him. The 37-year-old also spoke about an unknown mental disorder that plagues him. “I have sometimes no physical control of my body. It’s like being possessed but worse. I talk for hours, my mouth moves my tongue moves,” he said. John Gabriel McArthur is now at the Metropolitan Detention Center facing an open count of first-degree murder and a tampering with evidence charge.