An Indiana man allegedly severed his father’s head and carried it around in a plastic bag outside his family’s home — after several “heated debates” between the two.

Bryce Winnecke, 33, was arrested after a lengthy standoff with police on Friday and charged with murder and abuse of a corpse for the gruesome killing of his 73-year-old father, Erich Winnecke.

Ann Winnecke, Bryce’s mother and Erich’s ex-wife, reported her son’s “delusional” behavior to authorities on Friday after he bolted from their Jeffersonville home early in the morning with a knife from the kitchen, appearing “excited” as he sped off in a car, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by the Courier Journal . 4

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She called the police around 10 a.m. and told officers she was worried her son might’ve har

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