Killer QAnon Surf Dad ‘Still Believes’ Kids He Murdered with Spear Gun Had Serpent DNA, Says Friend: ‘Delusions Are Still There’ (Exclusive)

When Matthew Taylor Coleman was arrested in 2021 for killing his young daughter and son with a spearfishing gun, the California dad allegedly told authorities the children possessed serpent DNA.

Court records show the former surf instructor admitted to believing in QAnon conspiracy theories — which include threads about reptilian people taking over the globe.

More than two years later, Coleman, now 42, stands by those theories, two sources tell The Messenger.

“He still believes it,” a friend close to the Coleman family says.

“There are moments where he seems to be wavering, where he’s seeing the light. But then he’ll regress,” the source continues. “He still believes that the children were a threat and that the only thing he could do was kill them. The delusions are still there.”

On Thursday, Federal Judge Cathy Ann Bencivengo ruled that Coleman is still not competent to stand trial. He will remain in an undisclosed federal prison in California until his next competency hearing in March.

The Messenger has learned that Coleman has undergone intensive psychological testing over the past several months, including interviews with multiple psychiatrists.

His defense team has also ordered psychological assessment of their client, who is accused of doing the unthinkable.

In early August 2021, Coleman put his two kids — son Kaleo, 2, and daughter Roxy, 10 months — into a van and drove from their home in Santa Barbara, Calif., to Mexico, authorities said.

Two days later on Aug. 9, he drove them to a farm where he allegedly stabbed them both with a spearfishing gun.

In a 30-page search warrant application released last year, authorities alleged that Coleman was fascinated by conspiracy theories like QAnon and Illuminati.

He also expressed interest also in Strong’s Concordance, a numerology index of every word in the Bible.

Coleman allegedly told FBI agents that he was “seeing all the pieces being decoded like The Matrix, and that he was Neo.”

“He said visions and signs revealed that his wife, A.C. [Abby Coleman], possessed serpent DNA (M. COLEMAN mentioned that he was not sure if his wife was a shapeshifter) and had passed it onto his children and that all things were pointing to the idea that his children have corrupted DNA that will spread if something is not done about it,” reads the affidavit.

Those who knew Coleman are still coming to terms with his radical beliefs — and are surprised that he still adheres to them.

“I can’t believe he hasn’t really changed,” says a friend who has known Coleman for 30 years. “I hoped he would snap out of it, you know? But he hasn’t. It’s really sad.”