FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Around the time he started his freshman year at Florida State University last year, Austin Harrouff used his phone to jot down notes resembling reminders and to-do lists.
But by this August, his iPhone had become a near-daily outlet for statements and poems that often centered on his purpose in life. He typed phrases such as "keep running even when they say you crazy" and "I don't want to be worshipped but I know that I will be."
Harrouff is charged with first-degree murder in the brutal face-biting killings of a Jupiter couple. Hundreds of pages of recently released court documents give a more detailed account of his troubles before the mid-August attack.
This summer, when the 19-year-old college student was home on summer break in South Florida, his erratic behavior had gotten so serious his family considered getting him evaluated for his mental well-being. It didn't happen.
He had gone from being a youth whom friends knew as quirky to a teen making claims of immortality and being half-animal, according to authorities' interviews with his friends and family.
On Aug. 15, authorities say Harrouff killed John Stevens, 59, and Michelle Mishcon, 53, at the couple's Jupiter home. The first Martin County sheriff's deputies on the scene reported that Harrouff was found biting the husband's face.
