Charges: St. Cloud man believed God told him to kill woman in his home
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (KMSP) - A 38-year-old man is charged with second-degree murder after he allegedly strangled a woman to death in his basement in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
On the morning of Sept. 29, Daniel Walter Kenning walked into the St. Cloud Police Department and reported that he had just killed someone. According to the criminal complaint, Kenning brought officers to his home where officers found a woman dead.
In a statement, Kenning told officers he picked the woman up the previous night and drove her back to his home. He said he met her at a wedding and the two had recently talked on Facebook Messenger.
Kenning said he and the woman went down to his basement where he tied her legs and handcuffed her arms to a table. Kenning admitted that he intentionally strangled the woman, using one hand, until she died.
He also claimed that God had told him he needed to kill someone and that he would be able to resurrect them. Kenning said he "was supposed" to kill the woman the previous weekend when he was with her, but he couldn't do it at the time.