Decapitated, burned man in Northville (MI) ID’d as sex offender
Richard
November 8, 2007
BY BEN SCHMITT
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
Northville police have identified the burned, headless body found on a
cul-de-sac as a 26-year-old River Rouge man.
With the assistance of the Michigan State Crime Lab, police used a
fingerprint to identify the man as Daniel Sorensen.
Sorensen was decapitated and his body was severely burned, police said.
A sewer and water department crew found his body at 9:32 a.m. on Hidden
Ridge Drive.
A records check indicates Sorensen was a registered sex offender in
Illinois.
His cause of death remains unknown and the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s
Office is conducting an autopsy.
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Bob Feigel
magnanimously proffered:
>Decapitated, burned man in Northville ID’d as sex offender
Any relatioin to the music offender who died?
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Sarah Czepiel
:>Northville police have identified the burned, headless body found on a
:>cul-de-sac as a 26-year-old River Rouge man.
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:>A records check indicates Sorensen was a registered sex offender in
:>Illinois.
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Hmmmm......sounds like a job by the Community Pest Control.
Richard
> Decapitated, burned man in Northville ID'd as sex offender
> November 8, 2007
>
Head Found in Michigan Park 2 Days After Discovery of Decapitated Sex
Offender
Monday, November 12, 2007
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. - A human head was found in Hines Park in
Dearborn Heights, but authorities don't yet know whether it belongs to
a man whose burned, decapitated body was found about five miles away
in another Detroit suburb.
The head was found Saturday and was taken to the Wayne County Morgue,
where it will be examined further on Monday.
It was found two days after the headless body of 26-year-old Daniel
Sorenson was found in a vacant lot in Northville Township. His body
was ID'd by a partial fingerprint.
The Detroit News reports that the River Rouge man was registered as a
sex offender in Illinois and Michigan.
Police say they have five "persons of interest" in Sorenson's death.
Bob Feigel
magnanimously proffered:
>On Nov 8, 7:09 pm, "Richard" <lcp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Decapitated, burned man in Northville ID'd as sex offender
>> November 8, 2007
>>
>
>Head Found in Michigan Park 2 Days After Discovery of Decapitated Sex
>Offender
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/print?id=3854092
Prosecutors: Teens Killed Sex Offender for Thrill
Two Held After Mich. Man's Body Found Last Week Beheaded and Burned
DETROIT -- Nov. 12, 2007—
A high school senior and another teenager were charged Monday in the
slaying and mutilation of an adult acquaintance, whose burned torso
was found last week and severed head discovered this weekend in a
local river.
Prosecutors say the teens killed the man for the thrill of it.
Canton High School student Jean Pierre Orlewicz, 17, of Plymouth, and
Alexander James Letkemann, 18, of Westland, are charged with one count
each of first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder and mutilation
of a corpse.
They are accused in the planning, ambush and slaying of 26-year-old
Daniel Sorenson last Wednesday in a Canton Township garage owned by
Orlewicz's grandfather, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said.
"They lured him in the garage where they prepared a space to kill
him," Worthy said at a news conference.
A tarp had been spread on the garage floor, and Sorenson was stabbed
multiple times in the back. His head was sawed off and his body
wrapped in the tarp, authorities said.
His hands and feet were burned with a blowtorch, possibly in an effort
to conceal Sorenson's identity, the said.
His torso was driven in a pickup truck and dumped in a Northville
Township cul-de-sac where it was set on fire with gasoline. A utility
crew found it the next morning, police said.
His head was dumped in the Rouge River near the border between
Dearborn Heights and Detroit. It was found Saturday.
"They made plans on how they were to clean up the blood," Worthy said.
"They made plans on how they were going to dispose of the body. No
matter how malicious we all think it may be, it was very thought out
and very methodical."
The investigation is continuing and involves other persons of
interest, she said.
"We've all seen a lot. We've seen it all," Worthy said of the case's
investigators. "Still, a crime like this surprises us all.
"Anytime anyone kills just because they want to, and that's what the
evidence seems to suggest here, is bone-chilling. Why anyone would
want to do that, especially being 17 years old, it makes us think and
ask a lot of questions about our society."
Sorenson's history as a registered sex offender in Michigan and
Illinois and that he may have owned his attackers a small amount of
money appears to have had nothing to do with his death, Worthy said.
Orlewicz and Letkemann were arraigned Monday in a Romulus courtroom.
The murder charges carry mandatory sentences of life in prison.
Mutilating a corpse carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.