Monstrous Killer Dismembers Victim, Stores Her Remains In Coolers

The woman in the bathtub was not breathing. She had been failing for weeks—unable to feed herself, unable to drink, her speech slurred, her memory gone. The man who found her, the man who had been her partner on and off for years, did not call 911. Instead, he left her in the tub and ran cold water over her body. When detectives finally sat him down in an interrogation room on May 23, 2019, he told them he had been trying to preserve her. He had not wanted to lose her company.

The Decline Before the Death

The man, whose name emerges as the primary subject of the interrogation, explained to detectives that the victim—a woman named Kelly—had been in visible decline since at least March 2019. He described a fall in the apartment where she hit the back of her head on the floor and lost consciousness for five to ten minutes. After that, things got worse. He noticed yellow pus forming in her eye, which then turned into a blood spot—broken blood vessels inside the eye itself. Her motor skills deteriorated. She could no longer lift a spoon to feed herself. She had trouble drinking water. She had incontinence issues. He told detectives he started taking responsibility for feeding her and bathing her during the last two weeks of her life.