NCJ Number
132707
Journal
Kriminalist Volume: 23 Issue: 2 Dated: (February 1991) Pages: 59-63
Date Published
1991
Length
5 pages
Annotation
The unpremeditated violent beating, rape, murder, and dismemberment of a 43-year old woman is described to illustrate offensive versus defensive dismemberment and how, in this case, the dismemberer's former profession as an army cook and present profession as a truck driver affected his decision to dismember and dispose of the body.
Abstract
A lone woman with a history of mental problems is reported missing by her son. The woman's body is eventually found in pieces in plastic bags. Clear-cut evidence of guilt is found in the apartment of a truck driver who lived in the victim's building. The article reveals how the truck driver calmly discussed how he photographed the victim in pornographic poses, argued with her over his former girlfriend, raped her, and accidentally killed her with a blow to the head. To cover up the death, he dismembered her and disposed of her remains on his next truck trip some two weeks after the fact. The truck driver was sentenced to life imprisonment for his crime.