Overview

• Jayant 'Jay' Katz appears on Mark Laita’s Soft White Underbelly channel describing the killings in graphic, unapologetic terms.
• He calls the murders "amazing" and frames the events as a "game of stalking and waiting" in a recorded account.
• Katz says the film New Jack City partly influenced his thinking, while stopping short of blaming the movie.
• Court and police records show he used his stepmother’s .38 revolver, shooting her in the kitchen before fatally shooting his father upstairs.
• He previously pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder and handgun offenses, received an effective 100-year sentence, served 23 years, and was released in March 2022; he also alleges childhood sexual abuse, a claim not substantiated in court.