Man kills girlfriend, fillets and cooks her
Pastor Dale Morgan
Man kills girlfriend, fillets and cooks her*
By staff writers
January 07, 2008 02:29pm
A TEXAS man who allegedly killed his girlfriend and filleted her rang
police to tell them he was boiling up her body parts, authorities say.
Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, called police on Saturday to tell them he
had killed Jana Shearer, 21, and was boiling her body parts at his
mother's home, Smith County Sheriff J.B. Smith said, the Associated
Press reported.
When sheriff deputies arrived, Mr McCuin barricaded himself in the home
for a short time before coming out.
Police allegedly found Ms Shearer's mutilated body, one ear boiling in a
pot of water on the stove and a fork stuck in human flesh on a plate on
the kitchen table.
Authorities said it was unclear whether Mr McCuin had eaten any of Ms
Shearer's body.
"We cannot prove that he did," Mr Smith told the AP.
"He was either going to, had been or led us to think that he was doing it."
Before he called police, Mr McCuin allegedly told his mother and her
boyfriend to look in their garage, authorities said.
There they saw the remains of Ms Shearer. When they fled, Mr McCuin
called police.
Authorities believed Ms Shearer was abducted from her home on Friday
night and killed. Her mother had seen her getting into Mr McCuin's truck.
"There was no struggle but she could see the girl left with no shoes, no
purse and no mobile phone," Mr Smith said.
Ms Shearer was killed with a blow to the head.
Her death and mutilation was apparently the beginning of a crime spree
that included Mr McCuin allegedly stabbing the boyfriend of his
estranged wife.
William Veasley, 42, was in a critical condition in hospital, Mr Smith said.
Mr McCuin, of Tyler, about 180km east of Dallas, has been charged with
capital murder. He is to be arraigned tomorrow.