Legal Opinion
United States v. Jeffrey Allen Steil
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 18, 1990No. 90-5018PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
Jeffrey Allen Steil appeals an order of the District Court 1 granting the government’s 18 U.S.C. § 4246 (1988) petition. We affirm.
Born in 1962, Steil has a long history of psychiatric problems. He began having auditory hallucinations at age six and attempted suicide in 1981 and 1985. Also in 1985, shortly after identifying his father as the Green River Killer, Steil had intercourse with his puppy. He then shot, killed, and buried it because he believed it to be a threat to his future children. Steil later exhumed the puppy’s body and took it to a veterinarian when he…
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