Arrogant Boyfriend Says He Accidentally Hit His Girlfriend So He Can't Understand Why He's Going To Jail

September 6, 2026

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The Man Who Kept His Girlfriend's Body in Coolers for Weeks

On a May afternoon in 2019, a man sat in an interrogation room and calmly explained to detectives why he had kept his girlfriend's decomposing body in his apartment for weeks—first in the bathtub, then in two coolers after he cut off her legs with a reciprocating saw. He said he didn't understand why he might go to jail. He said he was just trying to preserve her.

The woman was Kelly. She had been living with him on and off since February 2019. According to his account, she fell backwards in their apartment in March, hit her head on the floor, and lost consciousness for what he estimated to be five to ten minutes. He did not take her to a doctor. Over the following weeks, he watched her deteriorate: short-term memory loss, yellow fluid forming in her eyes that turned into "blood sacks," loss of motor skills, inability to feed herself or drink water without spilling. He described her as "just moving so slow." Still, he did not seek medical help.

The Bath and Its Aftermath

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1 Timestamped Outline
2 (01:00) **Interrogation Begins - The Initial Account** - The suspect describes his girlfriend falling and hitting her head in March 2019, claiming it was an accident.
3 (10:04) **The Fatal Bath - Suspect's Version of Events** - He explains putting her in the bathtub and leaving her alone overnight, finding her dead the next morning.
4 (21:12) **The Cover-Up Begins - Preservation Attempts** - The suspect describes keeping her body in the tub for 2-3 weeks, running cold water on it to slow decomposition.
5 (30:04) **Dismemberment - The Cooler Solution** - He reveals purchasing a reciprocating saw and cutting off her legs when her body wouldn't fit in the first cooler.
6 (38:58) **The Cooler Disposal and Friend's Involvement** - He discusses his friend Steven (who goes by Ryan Ross) and the attempt to get rid of the first cooler.
7 (44:52) **Rationalizing the Cover-Up** - The suspect explains his thinking behind not reporting the death and keeping the body.

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Arrogant Boyfriend Says He Accidentally Hit His Girlfriend So He Can't Understand Why He's Going To Jail

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