An Ohio woman murdered her landlady because she thought she was in 'The Matrix.' The jury found her not guilty, and a whole new legal defense was born

An Ohio woman murdered her landlady because she thought she was in 'The Matrix.' The jury found her not guilty, and a whole new legal defense was born

In the summer of 2002, the quiet city of Hamilton, Ohio, became the center of a murder case so bizarre it redefined the insanity defense. That year, Tonda Lynn Ansley walked outside her apartment one morning and shot her landlady, Sherry Lee Corbet, multiple times in the head. Neighbors heard gunfire and ran outside, only to see Ansley, who was 42 at the time, standing over the fallen woman. There was no robbery, no argument, and no obvious moti…