A Real Life Hannibal Lechter

[waltky]

After she bailed him out of jail for a previous charge!...

Police: Jeff man ate ex-girlfriend's organs
September 15, 2014 Editor's note: This story contains graphic and disturbing material.

A Southern Indiana man accused of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend told police that he mutilated her body and ate several of her organs, according to court records. Joseph A. Oberhansley, 33, who appeared in Clark Circuit Court on Monday, is accused of killing Tammy Jo Blanton, 46, of the 300 block of Locust Street. He is charged with murder, abuse of a corpse and breaking and entering in the case. "After you've been prosecuting for so long, you think you've seen everything," Prosecutor Steve Stewart said. "... I've never seen this."

Oberhansley — who has a previous conviction for manslaughter in Utah — was arrested Thursday after police came to Blanton's house looking for her because she hadn't shown up for work. Police said he acted suspiciously when officers asked him about Blanton's whereabouts after knocking on the door about 10 a.m. There was a fresh cut across his knuckles, according to a police affidavit made public Monday in court. Based on their observations, the affidavit said, the officers searched Oberhansley for weapons and found a folding blade tucked in his back pocket, covered with what appeared to be blood and hair.

An officer then walked through the house calling Blanton's name before finding her bloody body under a vinyl camping tent draped over the bathtub, the affidavit said. Her skull had apparently been crushed, the affidavit said. An autopsy Friday revealed Blanton died of multiple sharp force trauma to the head, neck and torso, and that parts of her heart, lungs and brain were missing. Police also found a "plate with what appeared to be skull bone and blood" on it, the affidavit said, as well as a skillet and pair of tongs with blood on the handles.

Police said Oberhansley told officers he removed several of Blanton's organs and ate them, both cooked and raw. Tissue was found in a garbage can, the affidavit said. Prosecutor Steve Stewart said, "After you've been prosecuting for so long, you think you've seen everything. ... I've never seen this."

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[Noomi]

That is just sick...

 

[tinydancer]

Holy toledo! I was just reading this at DMail. Cripes he's a convicted killer who was let out after killing his girlfriend in 1998, chokes a man, gets bail at $500 and kills and eats his girlfriend.

I wonder how well the Judge is sleeping tonight that lowered the bail from the $25,000 that the Prosecutors wanted to $5,000.

Unreal. Just unfreaking real.

 

[whitehall]

Hannibal Lecter was a fictional psychiatrist and a brilliant man. This guy sounds more like Ed Gein who was a real life maniac grave robber and cannibal.

 

[AyeCantSeeYou]

I was listening to this on the news last night. It's beyond creepy. I wouldn't be surprised if whatever lawyer is assigned his case gets him 'labeled' as being mentally ill.