Trial begins for man accused of dismembering his parents and dissolving their bones in acid, leaving ‘a diabolical stew of human remains’
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Theresa Braine
New York Daily News |
Sep 28, 2020
Joel Michael Guy, Jr., was arrested Tuesday, November 29, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and charged with killing his parents, 61 year old Joel Michael Guy, Sr. and 55 year old Lisa Guy at their home located in West Knox County. (Knox County Sheriff's Office)
His parents threatened to cut him off, so he allegedly killed them.
Even that wasn’t enough for then 28-year-old Joel Guy Jr., who allegedly attempted to dissolve their limbs in acid after brutally stabbing and then dismembering the pair over Thanksgiving weekend in 2016.
Guy Jr., now 32, had traveled from his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that weekend to celebrate the holiday with his parents and three sisters in Knox County, Tennessee.
Guy Jr.'s parents, Joel Guy Sr., 61, and Lisa Guy, 55, were last seen leaving their home that Friday to visit a relative. But sometime between Friday and midday Saturday, the family black sheep revealed his black heart, prosecutors said Monday during opening statements on the first day of Guy Jr.'s trial.
At the outset, investigators did not know what had happened to turn him so violent.
But testimony from his sisters on Monday revealed that they had planned to tell him that they were no longer going to support him financially.
That furnished a possible motive, and graphic testimony filled in details of what had transpired.
After stabbing his parents numerous times so fiercely that he not only broke but also severed numerous ribs, he decapitated his mother, the court heard.
The son allegedly set his mother’s head on the stove to boil and doused his parents' limbs in caustic chemicals, converting them into a “diabolical stew of human remains,” as cops described it on day one of his trial.
Guy Sr.'s severed hands were found on the floor of his bedroom and the couple’s severed torsos in plastic containers in a bathroom, reported the Knoxville Journal Sentinel.
On Monday, attorney Leslie Nassios revealed new details, including information from the victims' autopsy reports, reported WVLT-TV, which covered the trial live.
The autopsy reports revealed that the victims' lungs, liver and kidneys were damaged by multiple sharp force injuries, WVLT reported, and a weapon fragment was found in the muscle tissue of one of Joel Guy Sr.'s shoulder wounds.
“Joel Guy Sr.'s hands were severed at the wrists, his arms were severed at the shoulder blade, his legs were removed at the hip and his right foot was removed at the ankle,” WVLT reported, citing court records.
There was evidence of what Nassios called a “fierce struggle” during which Guy Jr.'s father had “fought for his life.”
The son undressed his father after killing him and dumped his clothes in a bloody pile, authorities said. He did the same with his mother, cutting her clothes off, Nassios said.
Joel Guy Jr. allegedly stabbed his mother, 55-year-old Lisa, 31 times, causing 21 severe injuries that severed nine of her ribs and left several stab wounds in her buttocks, prosecutors said. The son then allegedly chopped her legs off below the knee and cut her arms off at the shoulder.
Guy Jr. then allegedly ripped off her head “after blunt force trauma was allegedly applied to her neck,” officials said.
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Theresa Braine
New York Daily News |
Sep 28, 2020
Joel Michael Guy, Jr., was arrested Tuesday, November 29, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and charged with killing his parents, 61 year old Joel Michael Guy, Sr. and 55 year old Lisa Guy at their home located in West Knox County. (Knox County Sheriff's Office)
His parents threatened to cut him off, so he allegedly killed them.
Even that wasn’t enough for then 28-year-old Joel Guy Jr., who allegedly attempted to dissolve their limbs in acid after brutally stabbing and then dismembering the pair over Thanksgiving weekend in 2016.
Guy Jr., now 32, had traveled from his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, that weekend to celebrate the holiday with his parents and three sisters in Knox County, Tennessee.
Guy Jr.'s parents, Joel Guy Sr., 61, and Lisa Guy, 55, were last seen leaving their home that Friday to visit a relative. But sometime between Friday and midday Saturday, the family black sheep revealed his black heart, prosecutors said Monday during opening statements on the first day of Guy Jr.'s trial.
At the outset, investigators did not know what had happened to turn him so violent.
But testimony from his sisters on Monday revealed that they had planned to tell him that they were no longer going to support him financially.
That furnished a possible motive, and graphic testimony filled in details of what had transpired.
After stabbing his parents numerous times so fiercely that he not only broke but also severed numerous ribs, he decapitated his mother, the court heard.
The son allegedly set his mother’s head on the stove to boil and doused his parents' limbs in caustic chemicals, converting them into a “diabolical stew of human remains,” as cops described it on day one of his trial.
Guy Sr.'s severed hands were found on the floor of his bedroom and the couple’s severed torsos in plastic containers in a bathroom, reported the Knoxville Journal Sentinel.
On Monday, attorney Leslie Nassios revealed new details, including information from the victims' autopsy reports, reported WVLT-TV, which covered the trial live.
The autopsy reports revealed that the victims' lungs, liver and kidneys were damaged by multiple sharp force injuries, WVLT reported, and a weapon fragment was found in the muscle tissue of one of Joel Guy Sr.'s shoulder wounds.
“Joel Guy Sr.'s hands were severed at the wrists, his arms were severed at the shoulder blade, his legs were removed at the hip and his right foot was removed at the ankle,” WVLT reported, citing court records.
There was evidence of what Nassios called a “fierce struggle” during which Guy Jr.'s father had “fought for his life.”
The son undressed his father after killing him and dumped his clothes in a bloody pile, authorities said. He did the same with his mother, cutting her clothes off, Nassios said.
Joel Guy Jr. allegedly stabbed his mother, 55-year-old Lisa, 31 times, causing 21 severe injuries that severed nine of her ribs and left several stab wounds in her buttocks, prosecutors said. The son then allegedly chopped her legs off below the knee and cut her arms off at the shoulder.
Guy Jr. then allegedly ripped off her head “after blunt force trauma was allegedly applied to her neck,” officials said.
sound like one of the worst crime scenes ever described , “diabolical stew of human remains,” 
his eyes look crazy as hell , you can see the whole eye top and bottom. Way past 
