STOUGHTON, Wis. — A Madison woman hallucinated that her father was the devil and tried to stab him to death at his Stoughton home last month, a criminal complaint alleges.
Jamie Anderson, 34, is charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide by use of a dangerous weapon with domestic abuse assessments. On July 1, she allegedly walked 16 miles from her Madison apartment to her father’s Stoughton home in order to kill him.
The complaint alleges that Anderson rang her father’s doorbell that morning. When he answered, she said she wanted to stop seeing hallucinations. She initially asked him for a hug, then tried to stab him in the head after he asked her if she was on drugs. She allegedly tried multiple times to stab him. At one point, Anderson’s father pushed her over a coffee table in order to escape…