'Werewolf killer' ordered to stay off social media after dating profile is found 4 years following slaying
A Virginia man who once suffered a psychiatric break and killed a merchant believing he was a werewolf was ordered to stay off social media Thursday after he
A Virginia man who once suffered a psychiatric break and killed a merchant believing he was a werewolf was ordered to stay off social media Thursday after he appeared to gloss over his violent past in an online dating profile.
Pankaj Bhasin, who is free on conditional release after he spent three years in a mental health facility, recently had a Facebook dating profile that called himself "an easy going adventurer who believes in universal connection” who is “recently getting back from two years of travel," NBC Washington reported this week.
Alexandria Circuit Court Chief Judge Lisa Bondareff Kemler told Bhasin, 38, on Thursday to stay off social media as long as he's on conditional release. But he will be allowed to keep using LinkedIn as he looks for a job, NBC Washington reported.
Back in the summer of 2018, Bhasin stabbed Bradford Jackson more than 50 times, leaving behind a gruesome scene inside Window Universe in Alexandria, police said.
Bhasin claimed he had suffered a psychiatric break when he killed Jackson, 65, a stranger he believed was a werewolf. After a mistrial, when jurors leaned toward acquittal, prosecutors agreed to a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity, leading to a three-year stint at a mental health facility.
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