Police say a Connecticut man who is accused of stabbing his father to death last week has a dark and violent past, including beating and strangling a woman he "hit it off with" in rehab and dragging her out of bed, feet first, while telling her, "I'm going to kill you."

"Like looking into the eyes of Satan," Joshua Popielarczyk's female victim allegedly told cops about what he looked like before attacking her in 2023, according to CT Insider .

Arrest warrants obtained by the local news outlet describe how Popielarczyk, who is accused of murdering his dad last Friday in Farmington, was known for displaying "weird behavior" while with the female victim, who allegedly spent several days with him after being discharged from a rehabilitation facility they were both at.

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