A Washington man accused of killing his 3-year-old in a Montana field pleaded guilty on Tuesday.
38-year-old Jeremy Brent Cramer told a Dillon District Court judge that he wanted to be held liable for the murder and "get this over," the Associated Press reported.
As he approached Judge Loren Tucker, clad in black and white prison stripes and cuffs around his ankles, Cramer admitted to killing son Broderick in a field located about five miles outside of the Montana town of Anaconda.
Cramer announced that he'd changed his original not guilty plea because spending life in prison wouldn't matter to him.
"After a few months of thinking about it, I'm taking accountability for it," Cramer told the judge. "Whether it's eight years or 80 years, my son's not here. I just want to get this over."
Cramer was taken into police custody on July 8, after he was found in an Anaconda convenience store washing blood out of his clothing.
According to Cramer's wife Nataliya, the Lacey, Wash. native took their son without word, ignoring all of her efforts to reach him.
Broderick's remains, badly beaten and stabbed multiple times, were found in the field the morning after Cramer's arrest. There were two rocks soaked in blood and hair, and a knife next to the body, AP reported. There was also an empty bottle of a generic version of Adderall that had reportedly been refilled five days prior at the scene. Bloody keys and a knife were found on Cramer when police first inspected him.
Jon Cramer, Jeremy's brother, informed police that his brother was an ex-methamphetamine addict who was looking for a doctor that could give him Adderall.
