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5 min readThe Man Who Confessed to Dismemberment
"I just need people to be present so you know, he acts different."
That's how a suspect in a Wisconsin interrogation room explains the dynamic that led him to shoot a man in the head, then dismember the body and stash the remains in his sister's basement. The raw, unedited interview—captured in full—reveals not just a confession, but a portrait of a man who says he was pushed past his breaking point by someone he believed was a predator targeting his family.
The Confession Emerges
The interrogation begins with the suspect volunteering to talk. The detective establishes rapport quickly, acknowledging the obvious: cutting apart a human body looks monstrous from the outside, but there might be reasons that make it "more understandable and more human." The suspect, speaking with a noticeable accent and occasionally struggling for words, agrees to explain.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:30) **Interrogation Begins: The Detective’s Opening Appeal** - The lead detective establishes rapport, urging the suspect to be honest and explain how the situation “ended up the way it did.”
- 2 (04:11) **The Motive Unfolds: A Pattern of Predatory Behavior** - The suspect describes the victim, Tom, as a “bad guy” who pressured him to find young girls and made sexual advances toward his wife.
- 3 (06:22) **The Lure and the Shooting** - The suspect admits to luring Tom to a basement on Chicago Avenue with the promise of young girls, then shooting him once in the head from about five feet away.
- 4 (10:10) **Enlisting an Accomplice: Yay’s Role** - The suspect explains he got a friend named Yay to help because he felt “close to him,” and Yay assisted in wrapping the body and putting it in the car.
- 5 (15:17) **The Dismemberment and Disposal Plan** - The detective directly asks about how the body was “separated,” and the suspect explains Tom was too heavy to carry, leading to the decision to cut him up.
- 6 (22:36) **Details of the Dismemberment** - The suspect describes cutting the body into five pieces: at the shoulders, the arms, and the knees, using a saw.
- 7 (27:55) **The Remains’ Location Revealed** - The detective asks the “big question” of where the rest of Tom is, and the suspect confirms the torso and limbs are all together in the basement of a house on 518 38th Street.
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