Matthew Hertgen, the former Wesleyan soccer player who was found not criminally responsible for taking his younger brother’s life during a psychotic episode, has been found lifeless inside his New Jersey jail cell.
The 32-year-old lost his life less than two months after a judge ruled that he was not criminally responsible due to severe mental illness in the homicide of his 26-year-old brother, Joseph Hertgen.
Matthew consumed his brother’s eyeball in the process.