An Iowa man was sentenced to life behind bars for the murder of a friend he repeatedly ran over with a pickup truck after a fight about mayonnaise.
Kristofer Erlbacher, now 29, used his truck to ram Caleb Solberg, 30, outside a café in the small town of Pisgah on Dec. 17, 2020, the Des Moines Register reported. Erlbacher initially drove away, then came back and ran over Solberg two more times, according to the Register.
The two had been out drinking at a bar with another person earlier in the night in nearby Moorhead, but things took a turn when Erlbacher spread mayo on Solberg’s food, which riled Solberg and sparked a bar fight, the Woodbine Twiner-Herald reported.
A furious Erlbacher called Solberg’s half-brother, Craig Pryor, on the way to the café and threatened to set Solberg’s house on fire and shoot him, the newspaper said. Pryor later came to Dave’s Old Home in Pisgah, where another confrontation was brewing.
Erlbacher eventually rammed his truck into Pryor’s, then rammed Solberg.
“Erlbacher’s first blow to Solberg did not kill him. He can be heard screaming for his brother, Craig Pryor,” District Judge Greg Steensland wrote in the verdict, according to the Twiner-Herald.
“Rather than just leave, Erlbacher went down the street, turned around, and came back to strike Solberg a second time … To be sure he had completed the job, Erlbacher drove his truck up and over Solberg one last time.”
Erlbacher then drove off, but his truck broke down a short while later. On the phone, he told Pryor that he had killed Solberg, according to the verdict.
Erlbacher was convicted after a bench trial in December last year and sentenced Monday.
Death over drinking and mayonnaise? Really? We thought it was “angry black men” who discounted human life to the point of killing people. Just one more example of the European trait of hypocrisy that’s destroying this nation.
Did you mean “you” thought it was “angry black men” discounting human life instead of “we”? Speak for yourself. This has nothing to do with European trait of hypocrisy destroying this Nation. It has to do with the mentally ill, it effects all races, no single race is exempt from this problem. The real problem stems from drug, alcohol, and cigarette addicted women that continue their habitual ways throughout their pregnancies causing under developed fetuses with resulting disabilities (brain disorders). Combine this with the aforementioned addicted parents that leave their children to raise themselves with no sense of right or wrong, ethics, or morals and you have the recipe to the creation of Kistofer Earlbaucher and the many others of all races that come from the same recipe. Their brains are incapable of learning in school, they drop out, their problems multiply from inability to function or understand social interactions they become frustrated with, then they lash out in any imaginable way discounting humanity resulting in death and destruction. Don’t try to make this a Racial or Political issue!
That is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. You blaming the woman for the child’s problem is absurd. It doesn’t even have to have anything to do with drugs or alcohol or cigarettes. Man you need to educate yourself on a topic before you comment. It makes you ignorant posting this dumb theory of your’s. A child can have a development problem and the parents may never have done any drugs in their live and or never even used alcohol or smoked cigarettes ever. Sometimes people are just delt a crappy hand in life. Which seems to be your case. This is about 2 grown ass men who are 29 and 30 that was a prank that turned south in a hurry. It has nothing to do with a mom who abused drugs, alcohol or cigarettes. Never once have I read anything or heard anything about either parents do such thing. You being judgmental and speculating this entire event makes people who do have a mental disorder go over the edge when you do speak to them. If you were to say this to a 29 year old man who happens to have some of the issues that you state it would be no suprise to me at all that the person with the disorder would take offense to it as he cleaned your clock and I hope I would be a witness to it so I could testify on his be half against you. Man I still can’t believe the dumb crap your comment says. It’s truly just plain ignorant of you.
He should have gotten the DEATH PENALTY!!!
Mr. Olexo, I never blamed the mother for the child’s actions, simply stated that drug addicted pregnant women produce babies that evolve into adults with these type of problems, and committing similar crimes. The babies that evolve into adults weren’t dealt a good hand from the start from their mothers bad habits and addictions. These adults need to understand their disabilities and attempt to minimize them or their problems will multiply! They are responsible for their own actions! It’s far more than two grown ass men who are 29 and 30 and play a prank that goes south in a hurry. Sane people don’t react in this manner, regardless of the prank, because of people like this is why we have LAWS, JAILS, and the ELECTRIC CHAIRS. If you don’t understand what someone has said, I suggest you do your own research rather than attempting to lay blame on what you don’t understand. My comments were researched, verified, and understood. Not all babies born with disabilities are a result of drug, alcohol, and cigarette addicted women who continue use throughout their pregnancy (just a high percent of them). Babies born with disabilities can also stem from DNA (family history), bad water (lead, and other contamination ingestion) and poor diet (which is why every State in this country has WIC Programs to educate pregnant woman and provide free food that they need throughout their pregnancy / food stamps), it‘s called prenatal care. It’s not my job to educate you, or help you when you don’t understand something; but, here is a good start if you want to educate yourself. https://nida.nih.gov/publications/research-reports/methamphetamine/how-methamphetamine-misused
Good luck with your future development.