Police: Man decapitated woman, mutilate 2 dogs, then cut off his own arm and removed his own eyeball
A woman’s decapitated body and two dead, mutilated dogs were discovered by police Saturday in a Phoenix apartment. The suspect in the crime cut off his left arm at the elbow and removed one of his eyeballs.
The 43-year-old male suspect has a known mental illness, authorities said. "These two have a history of a domestic-violence relationship," Sgt. Trent Crump told reporters at the scene.
The incident comes as Arizona and other states have been cutting mental health services.
The scene was discovered by a neighbor who was checking on the woman, whom he hadn’t seen enter or leave the apartment in more than a day. Through the window he could see blood on the floors and walls, and after the suspect answered the door with his eyeball hanging from a socket and his left lower arm dangling at the elbow, the neighbor “quickly backed out” and called police, Crump said.
The identities of the witness, the victim and the suspect were not released by police.
Investigators found the woman’s body in a walk-in closet and two dead and mutilated dogs. (Some reports said the dogs also were decapitated.) During questioning at the scene, man said he killed “three family members.” Police were trying late Saturday to verify if the suspect meant the dogs were family or whether there were other human victims.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/suspect-who-decapitated-phoenix-woman-cut-off-his-own-arm/
No question this will be an insanity defense.
States keep cutting their mental health programs. This is the result. Conservatives have been slashing mental health budgets for over 20 years.
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