Cohen Miles-Rath heard voices telling him to kill his father. After they passed, he spent years retracing the path of his delusions.
When Cohen Miles-Rath walks into his father’s house, the history of his psychosis is right there in front of him.
There is the place where he was standing when he received a cryptic message on his phone: The devil had entered his father’s body. There is the drawer where he spotted a knife whose handle was white — the color of God!
There is the floor where, as they grappled over the knife, Cohen bit off part of his father’s earlobe, and blood spattered over both of them. There is the spot where, pinned to the floor, Cohen reached up with the knife and slashed wildly at his father’s throat.
The violence lasted seconds but changed his whole life.