Mother of the two children murdered by their QAnon-obsessed father ‘feels pity’ for him

A mother of two children who were brutally murdered by their QAnon-obsessed father said she feels pity for him, but never wants to see him again.

The father allegedly believed that his wife infected their kids with serpent DNA.

Abby Coleman was packing for a trip on August 7, 2021, at their Santa Barbara, California home when her husband Matthew Taylor Coleman suddenly grabbed their two kids — Kaleo, 2, and Roxy, 10 months — put them in the car and drove to Mexico. He later confessed to killing the children with a spearfishing gun. 

A family friend who is still in contact with Abby, now 36, told PEOPLE Magazine that her husband, who is now 41, ‘destroyed her that day.’

‘Her life ended that day — the life that she had, and the plans that she had made for herself and her family,’ the family friend said. 

Coleman has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of murdering U.S. nationals on foreign soil and is being held without bond at an undisclosed federal prison in California. He has undergone psychological testing to determine his state of mind. 

Abby Coleman has lived with family members in Texas since the 2021 murders of her two children.

‘She’s trying to heal, and has very conflicting feelings,’ a family friend said. ‘One day, she will express some pity and concern for Matthew, and other days, she never wants to see him again.’

In the FBI’s criminal complaint, Matthew Cole allegedly told police that it was a QAnon conspiracy theory that motivated the murders of his children. 

‘He said visions and signs revealed that his wife, A.C. [Abby Coleman], possessed serpent DNA (M. COLEMAN mentioned that he was not sure if his wife was a shapeshifter) and had passed it onto his children and that all things were pointing to the idea that his children have corrupted DNA that will spread if something is not done about it,’ according to the affidavit.

On the day Coleman left with the children, his wife Abby Coleman had called police out of concern. She told police that she did not believe the children were in any trouble. 

She had said she thought her husband would return with the children, but instead he drove them to Mexico and killed them, police said. He was arrested when he attempted to cross the border back into the United States.

Police said that Abby had texted her husband at 9:24 am on August 7, 2021 – just hours after officials believe the children were killed. 

‘We are doing this together, babe,’ she wrote. ‘Praying for clarity over you and your mind this morning. Everything you’ve believed and known to be true is happening right now. I’m partnering with you from [Santa Barbara]. Let’s take back our city. The gateway of revival for the state of California and the nation and the world You were created to change the course of world history. Take care of my little giant slayer and the voice of heaven’s dove. They sure are special.’ 

The person close to Abby told People that she continues to process some of the QAnon theories that she and Matthew believed.

She has second guessed everything and now realizes that some of those theories weren’t even close to being true,’ according to the source who adds that Abby has lots of ‘anger’ toward Matthew. ‘It’s been a really weird journey for her, and she’s still on it.’

Earlier this year, a letter from Coleman to his friend revealed his thinking behind his belief that his wife had reptile DNA that she passed down to their children – which was just one of several conspiracy theories the father consumed. 

‘I was deceived,’ Coleman wrote in the letter from an undisclosed federal prison in California. ‘I was deceiving myself. I know now that the [reptile] DNA thing was a delusion in my own mind. I made myself believe something that wasn’t there.’

Without access to the Internet with websites spouting conspiracy theories, Coleman wrote in the letter that he is ‘having to use my mind to figure things out.’

‘I’m sorting through it all now,’ he wrote. ‘There’s a lot to unpack, but I have to figure out what I really believe, but I don’t have access to information anymore, so I’m having to use my mind to figure things out.’

After police picked up Coleman at the San Ysidro Port of Entry on August 9, 2021, and confronted him with the fact they had found the children’s bodies, he confessed to the killings.

Coleman told authorities he had been radicalized by British conspiracy theorist David Icke and was possessed into thinking there are ‘lizard people’ on earth, court documents revealed.

Icke’s theories are so extreme that he has been banned from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

‘He explained that he first learned of ‘Lizard People’ on Twitter and from ‘that British guy with white hair,’ FBI Special Agent Joseph P. Hamer wrote in his search warrant.

In the notes, he went on: ‘I believe, based on my investigation of this case, ‘that British guy with white hair’ refers to David Icke, a British conspiracy theorist with white hair, who has published several books, including ‘Children of the Matrix’ which describes, among other things, ‘Nefilim,’ ‘interbreeding [] between the reptilians and the blond-haired, blue-eyed, Nordic peoples,’ ‘reptilian DNA,’ and ‘royal’ bloodlines[ of] the reptilian Nordic hybrids,’ and their relation to the ‘Illuminati.”

Icke’s conspiracy theories include that COVID-19 is not a real virus and that the pandemic was orchestrated to destabilize the world.

He has been banned from entering Australia, accused of denying the holocaust and labeled anti-Semitic for his offensive suggestions that many of the ‘lizard people’ who he claims run the world in a secret society are Jewish.

Coleman previously told the investigators how he believed he and his children were entering the Matrix.

He told investigators that his true name ‘was Neo. M. Coleman’ and discussed time travel, teleportation,’ and attested that his kids had warned him ‘about babies being placed in fireworks, food, and walls.’

Coleman went on to claim that Q – the name of the anonymous account whose 2017 post to image-sharing site 4Chan sparked the QAnon movement- was communicating with him directly, telling agents that he ‘eventually…saw the big picture that he had to kill his children to prevent them from becoming an alien species that would release carnage over the Earth.’

Coleman ‘said he knew what he did was wrong, but it was the only course of action that would save the world,’ according to court documents.

He ranted to agents after confessing to the double murder, saying he was ‘either crazy or the only person left on Earth that is a true man.’

Explaining why he killed his two kids, Coleman ‘mentioned during the interview that ‘Q’ was actually talking to him’ ahead of the murders, the filing states.

Coleman, who had told investigators he killed the children because they had ‘serpent DNA,’ continued: ‘Anyways, was actually still thinking of burning them in case there’s [sic] a chip in them or something.

After not returning his wife’s texts as to their whereabouts for more than 48 hours, Coleman, while lying in bed with his two kids at City Express Hotel, a Christian resort in Rosarito, Mexico, just after 3 am, sent her a stream of bizarre texts offering a glimpse into his shattered mindset, the document reveals.

‘Hi babe, miss you too,’ read one of the texts, sent in the early hours of August 9 – the day of the murder, according to the filing.

‘Things have been rough but starting to get some clarity as well. Still confused on a lot of things though and processing through them.

‘So many crazy thoughts going through my head right now, hard to explain,’ he went on, adding that he was ‘getting some clarity through my grandmas [sic] old bibles.’

‘Going to keep processing through everything and hope to get some answers.’

He then offered his wife of four years an eerie sign-off that seemingly forecasted the horrid acts he would commit late in the day, in the last message he would ever send her.

‘Hope all this craziness ends soon. Love you,’ Coleman wrote, according to the warrant, before murdering his children just hours later.

The document further revealed that after being apprehended by officers upon his return to the US two days later, Coleman told agents that he had started noticing ‘strange coincidences’ five or six days before committing the murders.

According to the warrant, Coleman discussed with investigators ‘QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories as well as Strong’s numbers (an index of every word in the Bible),’ before telling them he had experienced ‘visions and signs revealed that his wife possessed serpent DNA.’