Sheriff: Son dismembered parents, tried to dissolve them in acid
USA Today NetworkDon Jacobs, Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel 8:14 a.m. EST December 1, 2016
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Joel Michael Guy Jr. drove up from Baton Rouge, La., apartment last week to join his parents at their West Knox County home, along with his three sisters, for Thanksgiving dinner.
Afterward the sisters returned to their homes. Everything seemed fine during the family gathering, authorities said.
But sometime between Friday night and mid-day Saturday, the 28-year-old Guy attacked his parents with a knife, possibly tortured them and dismembered their bodies, leaving remains in various rooms of the 2,256-square-foot home, according to Knox County Sheriff's Office Maj. Michael K. MacLean.
"Joel placed pieces of the bodies in an acid-based solution in an attempt to destroy evidence," said MacLean, who commands the Major Crimes Unit at the Sheriff's Office.
The solution was composed of normal household chemicals and didn't require special knowledge of chemistry, MacLean said.
"It's the kind of thing you can get off the Internet," MacLean said.
Guy left the house unlocked and returned Sunday to Baton Rouge, MacLean said.
The former Louisiana State University student was getting into his car at about 3 p.m. Tuesday when law enforcement officials pounced on him, MacLean said.
MacLean said detectives obtained warrants charging Guy with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his 55-year-old mother, Lisa Guy, and his 61-year-old father, Joel Guy Sr.
MacLean said authorities also obtained search warrants for Joel Guy Jr.'s apartment and car. He would not say whether authorities had recovered weapons used in the attacks or tools employed to cut up the bodies.
"We hope to have Mr. Guy return to Knoxville soon," MacLean said.
MacLean said he was unsure of a motive, but Lisa and Joel Guy Sr. planned to discuss with their unemployed son during the holiday discontinuing his financial support.
MacLean also said there is no indication the Guys had named their son as a beneficiary in any life insurance policies.
more:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/11/30/sheriff-son-dismembered-dissolved-parents-acid/94706452/
DO SOMETHING!
| 