Minnesota dad confesses to brutal murder of alleged sex offender neighbor — but the judge rules he can’t stand trial

Minnesota dad confesses to brutal murder of alleged sex offender neighbor — but the judge rules he can’t stand trial

Levi Axtell, a dad from Minnesota, killed his elderly neighbor, Lawrence V. Scully, after he started suspecting that he was surveilling his almost 2-year-old daughter and the other children in the neighborhood. After he confessed to the murder, evidence began emerging suggesting that he might have actually imagined the entire surveillance. Scully, 77, was convicted in 1979 for sexually assaulting a 6-year-old child. With people convicted of such…