After allegedly driving recklessly with his girlfriend in the car and laughing about killing her, a Florida man told sheriff's deputies his political beliefs made him do it.
David Kappheim, 60, told Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputies “he was very conservative and (his girlfriend) was a liberal" so he "felt that he was going to have to kill her,” The Palm Beach Post reported Thursday.
Kappheim's arrest came after his girlfriend told police he had threatened or harmed her on a number of occasions.
The unnamed girlfriend said Kappheim choked her on Sunday, cutting off her breath and then threatened to "kill her and burn her home" the following day, WPTV reported Thursday.
Then on Tuesday, the woman said she agreed to let Kappheim borrow her car as long as he drove her to work. When he began driving recklessly she claims to have told him feared for her life, to which "he laughed out loud," according to WPTV.
Kappheim admitted to trying to kill the woman three times, police said.
Deputies said they found documents inside the woman's apartment indicating Kappheim is "obsessed with Fox News and the Republican Party, and that he may be a danger to others," the Post reported.
Kappheim is being held without bail at the Palm Beach County Jail.
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