Tynesha Stewart Murder Case
Man Accused of Killing, Cooking Ex on Barbecue to Stand Trial
Original Post Date: 30th Sep, 2008 - 12:43am
I hope they give him the death penalty or life in prison without possibility of parole, what he did was not human!
Jury selection is set to begin Monday for a Texas man accused of killing, dismembering and grilling his ex-girlfriend. Timothy Wayne Shepherd, 28, confessed last year to strangling Texas A&M student Tynesha Stewart, 19, last year, and now faces trial for the murder, the Houston Chronicle reports. Investigators said Shepherd admitted strangling Stewart because he was angry she had begun a new relationship. Prosecutors believe Shepherd dismembered her body and burned her remains on two barbecue pits over the course of two days, the paper said. "We have determined through this investigation that the defendant dismembered Tynesha Stewart and. . He burned the body parts," Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas said in March 2007. "There are no remaining body parts." Despite the confession, prosecutors will have an uphill battle convicting Shepherd as investigators could not link the 30 pieces of charred bone and hair recovered from the defendant's apartment to the dead woman's DNA, the Chronicle said....
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