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An alcoholic father was drowned in an attempted 'exorcism' after his son decided to confront the 'demon' he saw in his father's eyes, a Massachusetts court has heard.
Jack Callahan, 22, has gone on trial for the murder of his father Scott, 57, who was found by police floating in a pond outside Duxbury in June 2021.
The then 19-year-old told police his banker father was possessed by a demon called 'Dirty Dan' who he thought could be destroyed through baptism.
Callahan was bringing his father home from a Boston bar when his mother, Wendy, called to say she would not have her ex-husband in their house, and the young man asked their cab driver to pull over next to the pond.
He grabbed his father and repeatedly plunged his head under the water, telling cops: 'I left him there to decide, you can come to heaven with me or hell. I think he chose hell.'
Jack Callahan, 22, is pictured on his father Scott's left alongside his mother Wendy and his two brothers Will and Charlie in 2016. The parents were divorced when Jack allegedly murdered his father in June 2021
Jack Callahan, 22, has gone on trial for the murder of his father Scott during an 'exorcism'
Police found Scott Callahan (pictured with a unnamed woman) dead in a pond outside Duxbury, Massachusetts in July 2021
Scott Callahan (pictured in an undated photo from his obituary page) was a heavy drinker. His son had gone to collect him from a bar on the night of the alleged killing
Jack Callahan told police he had been bringing his father home from a bar when they stopped next to Island Creek Pond where his father began attacking him
Scott Callahan's obituary reported that he was the Senior Vice President of Texas Capital Bank, and had an 'extensive career in finance'.
He had been receiving treatment for alcoholism at a center in Hopkinton before he checked himself out and headed for the bar in Boston.
The teenager called an Uber to bring him back to the $1.5 million home in Duxbury and said his father began to attack him when he asked the driver to pull over at around midnight.
'He indicated that the victim had been punching him in the face,' Plymouth Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham said at Callahan's 2021 arraignment.
'He went on to state that in this incident at the pond, he believed he was baptizing his father.
'He described that he was holding his father in the pond on his back like a baby, that he continually dunked the father's head in the water about four to eight times, that when the father started to cough and choke, he would lift his head
