Cannibal son’s sick confession after killing councilwoman mom in frenzied knife attack at lakeside home

Gruesome details have been revealed after a son killed his mother in a frenzied late night knife attack at their lakeside Minnesota home.

Eric Leif Jordahl, 26, received an automatic life sentence on Wednesday for the murder of his 62-year-old mother, Rosalie ‘Rose’ Ellen Johnson.

Jordahl was arrested in July 2020 after his father, Andrew Jordahl, returned home from work to find his then-20-year-old son covered in blood in the garage.

‘The devil exists, it’s in me, and I ate mom,’ the young man told his father, the criminal complaint revealed.

Johnson was found in the basement disfigured and bloodied with facial trauma, the probable cause statement, viewed by the Daily Mail said.

Jordahl had gone into his mother’s bedroom late at night. When she told him to go to sleep he punched her repeatedly and then got a knife and stabbed her multiple times and bit her, police said.

He removed a part of her body and placed it in the kitchen. Police later found human tissue and a butcher’s knife on the kitchen table, the probable cause statement added.

Afterwards he went into the garage, where his father found him.

Eric Leif Jordahl, 26, received an automatic life sentence for the murder of his 62-year-old mother, Rosalie ‘Rose’ Ellen Johnson

Jordahl was indicted on first-degree murder charges, but in 2021 he was found to be too incompetent to stand trial.

Prosecutors waited for him to regain competency, which was tested in 2023 and reaffirmed in 2024, to restart the legal matters.

His lawyer then filed a motion of intent to assert a defense of not guilty by reason of mental illness.

This caused his trial to be split into a bifurcated trial, which means his guilty verdict is separate from his mental illness clause.

Jordahl waived his right to a jury trial, instead opting for a bench trial.

Judge Karen Schommer found Jordahl guilty on all counts. First-degree murder holds an automatic life sentence.

On Monday, Schommer will hear why Jordahl should not be found guilty due to his mental illness.

If he is found not guilty by reason of mental illness, then he will more than likely be transferred to a psychiatric facility, avoiding prison time.

Rosalie ‘Rose’ Ellen Johnson was a much loved councilwoman in Big Lake, Minnesota

Johnson was a councilwoman on the Big Lake City Council, where she had been a member since 2019.

Among her duties she represented the Big Lake Community Lake Association, the Big Lake Economic Development Authority and the road maintenance committee.

Her family remembers her as the ‘smartest person’ and as a person who has ‘done the most good,’ a relative told Fox 9.

The Wave Youth Center honored her by starting a Rose Johnson Memorial Fund, as she had supported the center from its inception.

She had volunteered at the center and was often seen playing Risk and Yahtzee with members, the company said.

She also helped them with grant writing.

‘We are forever grateful,’ the center said. ‘Our time together and conversations will be missed immensely.’

A bench was also dedicated to her at Lakeside Park.

Her husband found their son in the garage covered in blood at their lakeside house (pictured). He told his father: ‘The devil exists, it’s in me, and I ate mom’

Jordahl will appear in court again on Monday where it will be decided if he should serve prison time or be put in a psychiatric facility

‘It’s the perfect memorial,’ her fellow councilman Scott Zettervall told the Monticello Times.

‘It’s a place for conversation, reflection and relaxation.’

The Daily Mail has reached out to city council for further comment.