Jealous boyfriend dismembers girlfriend and burns the parts in his barbeque grill

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edited March 2007 in A Moving Train
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4659327.html

This poor girl went to my alma mater. They've been talking all about it in the local news. At first the boyfriend wasn't even a suspect. Why didn't the smoking pit for two days straight get the cops to investigate? Amazing and truly disturbing...

Grisly details end search plans for A&M student


By PAIGE HEWITT
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle


Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas announced Saturday night that there will be no search for the body of Tynesha Stewart, the 19-year-old Texas A&M University student who is thought to have been slain March 15.

"There are no remaining body parts," Thomas said at a news conference. "We have determined through this investigation that the defendant dismembered the victim and burned her body parts. There is no body to be found. Based on that information, there will be no search. The family is aware of this, and they understand."

Thomas, who called on local media to give the Stewart family privacy, said Timothy Wayne Shepherd burned Stewart's body in two barbecue grills on his patio at his apartment in the 17700 block of Red Oak in northwest Harris County.

When investigators examined Shepherd's apartment, the bathroom had been scoured almost completely clean with ammonia. Two specks of blood were the only evidence found, detectives said.

Stewart was last seen March 15 and was reported missing March 19. The next day the Harris County Sheriff's Office homicide division launched its investigation.

Shepherd was interviewed for 10 hours Wednesday. After being released, he contacted community activist Quanell X, who persuaded Shepherd to tell him what happened to Stewart. He then led authorities to the garbage bin where he claimed to have placed Stewart's body.

That same day, Shepherd was charged with murder and about 11 that night, investigators say, he confessed to strangling Stewart. On Thursday, the sheriff's office announced it would not conduct a search in a landfill for Stewart's body but seemed to reverse itself Friday when it said it would proceed with one.

Later Friday, investigators said Shepherd may have dismembered her body. And on Saturday, the sheriff announced there would be no search because all the remains had been burned.

Shepherd's neighbors said Saturday that he was barbecuing at all hours of the day, for days at a time, at his apartment, No. 224.

James Hebert, 18, often played video games and barbecued with his "nice" next-door neighbor. In fact, they cooked out together so frequently Hebert kept his grill at Shepherd's.
But starting March 15, he noticed Shepherd was cooking — on his grill and on Hebert's pit — "nonstop" for two days.

This time, however, Shepherd hadn't invited him over, nor did he share.

When he asked for some of what he was cooking, Shepherd refused, saying it was for a wedding.

On March 16 about 7:45 p.m., Hebert and his roommate, Cithara Gomez, became alarmed when they looked over and saw dark-colored smoke billowing from Shepherd's patio.

When a firefighter and Harris County deputy arrived at the apartment, Shepherd quickly told them he had everything under control.

"He (Shepherd) came to the door real quick," said Hebert, who said he had seen Stewart at Shepherd's apartment many times. "His face was real sweaty."

Hebert, who gave a statement to detectives Saturday, said that during the weekend, he noticed his grill, and Shepherd's smoker, had disappeared from Shepherd's patio.

Dionne Whitaker, 31, whose patio is directly across from Shepherd's patio, said Saturday that she saw Shepherd carry the grill and the smoker to the garbage bin on March 17 or March 18.

Whitaker said she assumed Shepherd was throwing them away because he "burnt them up" when whatever he was cooking started "blazing," with fire nearly reaching the roof of his patio, she said.

Whitaker, who was interviewed by investigators, said Saturday that when she learned Shepherd may have been burning body parts, she was deeply disturbed.

"I wanted to vomit," she said.

Whitaker's husband, Louis Evans, who also gave a statement, was alarmed the first time he saw the pit ablaze. When it happened a few more times, he became suspicious.

"At first I thought he was careless," Evan said. "You'd be careless once. But you wouldn't do it again. He could have set the building on fire. There is other people's property I didn't know what was going on."

The sheriff said the five-day investigation of the killing, followed by days of blistering criticism of the department for its initial decision not to conduct a search in a landfill for Stewart's body, was "one of the toughest things I've ever been through."

Tim Miller, the director of Texas Equusearch, which had hoped to begin assisting in a search of an Atascocita-area landfill next week, said he was deeply saddened the group would not be able to return Stewart's body to her family.

"We did everything we could," Miller said. "It just wasn't meant to be."

paige.hewitt@chron.com
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    I'm surprised the smell of the BBQ didn't alarm anyone. :(

    What a grisly story!!
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  • bootlegger10bootlegger10 Posts: 16,050
    That's absolutely disgusting.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    That's absolutely disgusting.

    at least it's one less tramp you have to worry about getting an abortion though.
  • brain of cbrain of c Posts: 5,213
    there's nothing like texas bbq.
  • yosi1yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    That's horrifying.
    you couldn't swing if you were hangin' from a palm tree in a hurricane.
  • JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
    Yeah, I'm surprised the smell of it burning wasn't a part of the story and didn't get more people involved.
    Extremely disturbing.
  • spongersponger Posts: 3,159
    He scoured the whole bathroom with amonia and the cops still found two drops of blood.
  • azwyldcatsazwyldcats Posts: 710
    It happens.
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  • IlovveePJIlovveePJ Posts: 145
    I've been hearing a lot about this! I feel so bad for the girl and her family! :(
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  • Warped out mental case. The family should get turns basball batting her face..
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Warped out mental case. The family should get turns basball batting her face..

    I think you mis-read the story, the girl was the one killed and BBQed. :(
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  • RushlimboRushlimbo Posts: 832
    I want my babyback, babyback, babyback....Chili's babyback ribs sound delicious right now. Charcoal is much better than using gas, btw.
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  • justam wrote:
    I think you mis-read the story, the girl was the one killed and BBQed. :(


    No, actually I can move in and out of the afterlife.... and trust me, she's a real mean b-i-o-t c-h when she's dead!
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  • floyd1975floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    Jeanwah wrote:
    Yeah, I'm surprised the smell of it burning wasn't a part of the story and didn't get more people involved.
    Extremely disturbing.

    Proper seasoning is probably a must in this kind of cooking.
  • Rapunzel64Rapunzel64 Posts: 129
    Rushlimbo wrote:
    I want my babyback, babyback, babyback....Chili's babyback ribs sound delicious right now. Charcoal is much better than using gas, btw.

    Sick! This is really sad.
  • Alex_CoeAlex_Coe Posts: 762
    :rofl:

    If I die, I want to be BBQ'd afterwards so satan can eat me with french fries.
  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    "The secret's in the sauce!"


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  • tastes like chicken!
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  • Daughter of JeremyDaughter of Jeremy Up here in my tree Posts: 181
    That guy should meet the mexican chick who did a disturbingly similar thing to her husband. Maybe they could have a cook off. Sorry, that was in bad taste. (and so was that). There are soem horrible people in this world.
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  • even flow?even flow? Posts: 8,066
    Why bbq when you could have a pig farm. Right Picton?!


    Is this guy any relation to Kenny Wayne Sheppard?
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  • IlovveePJ wrote:
    I've been hearing a lot about this! I feel so bad for the girl and her family! :(

    I do too. A parents' nightmare come true to have that happen to their child. I heard about this from my friends down there and it's awful!

    I think it's amazing that nobody called the cops, or fire department and just let that go for days like that. That is a horrid smell that stays in your mind forever.
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  • I couldn't even read that. :(
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    I do too. A parents' nightmare come true to have that happen to their child. I heard about this from my friends down there and it's awful!

    I think it's amazing that nobody called the cops, or fire department and just let that go for days like that. That is a horrid smell that stays in your mind forever.

    Yeah, the smell must have been disgusting...and I can't imagine the guy cutting her up into pieces the size of meat...it's just too...unbearable to think of really... :(
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  • Not to be a dick, but why would the neighbors have been suspicious about him grilling? Something things really do take up to a couple of days to cook correctly on a grill, especially if you smoke something. The only thing I see the neighbors reacting to is calling the FD to report his grill blazing. (But as stated in the article, they were friends and i doubt he would want to rat his friend out like that).

    Also, what about the smell? The hair, yes, that could be a very bad smell but if he did that at night, know one would ever no. Has anyone ever smelt a burning body? Does it smell radically different from anything else that's grilled...like a whole pig?
  • McCready00McCready00 Posts: 371
    good old americans (:
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  • Thanks for bumming me out. That's deplorable.
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    I think I'd rather smother
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