Tony Lo Bianco
Det.Lt. Peter J. Nicholas NYPD Homicide
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In New York City, a gunman perched atop a water tower, opens fire with a .22 caliber rifle on the crowded streets below, randomly killing fifteen pedestrians. Peter Nicholas, a devout Catholic NYPD detective, climbs the tower to talk to the sniper. Before jumping to his death, the gunman tells Nicholas that "God told" him to commit the murders.
God Told Me To: Directed by Larry Cohen. With Tony Lo Bianco, Deborah Raffin, Sandy Dennis, Sylvia Sidney. A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
A mild-mannered dad takes a shotgun and blows away his wife and children. A cop goes on a sudden shooting spree at the St. Patrick's Day Parade. And each of these unlikely killers makes the same dying confession: “God told me to.”.
In 1997, Christopher Turgeon, prophet of the Gatekeepers, and his co-congregant, Blaine Applin, heard the voice of God telling them to kill Dan Jess, a former member of their religious group.1 Together, Chris and Blaine drove from California to Dan’s house in Washington, praying for a sign that they were doing the right thing; they saw seven ra...
The plot concerns a New York detective (Tony LoBianco) who investigates a series of murders in which the killers claimed God told them to kill. It turns out they're under the hypnotic sway of the child of visitors from outer space.
One night, I was so convinced that God wanted me to die that I was considering taking my own life. I just couldn’t go on in my fear of my husband and of the Almighty. That night, God spoke to me, pointing me to Proverbs 16:31, “Long life is the reward of the righteous.”.
Crenshaw, 98 Wash.2d 789 (1983), has become a familiar first-year puzzle in the context of insanity doctrine. The article proposes a fundamentally different legal approach to deific decree murders.
