Posted on 02/23/2024 1:16:12 PM PST by Red Badger
A man left a “trail of blood in his wake” dragging a suitcase later found to contain his roommate’s body, Tennessee authorities said.
Now, 32-year-old Julian Summers has been convicted on charges of first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse, the Shelby County District Attorney said Feb. 20.
Summers’ attorney Mark Mesler told McClatchy News they plan to appeal on a few issues. One of those came up during the confession, which Mesler said continued even after Summers requested a lawyer.
On Dec. 12, 2021, Summers hit the sleeping man’s head with a hammer at the Memphis apartment they shared, officials said.
Then, Summers was accused of decapitating 63-year-old Bruce Jeffries in what officials describe as a “brutal attack.”
The two were in a “domestic relationship,” a family member told Memphis police, according to an arrest affidavit.
Summers cleaned up the scene before shoving Jeffries’ dead body in a suitcase, officials said.
Surveillance footage from that night showed Summers dragging the suitcase through the apartment complex, authorities said. He tried to dump the suitcase at a dumpster, but it appeared to be too heavy, and he left it in an alley behind a bank, McClatchy News previously reported.
Officers and “concerned citizens” found Jeffries’ body that night at around 10 p.m., Memphis police said.
When investigators searched the apartment, they said they found signs of a struggle, including broken glass and a broken mirror. They also found bloodied clothes in the washing machine waiting to be cleaned, police said in the affidavit.
Sixteen days after the incident, officials said Summers admitted to the killing.
During the trial, Summers gave “conflicting testimony,” prosecutors said, but the state tried to prove that Summers was competent and was “exaggerating mental health symptoms.”
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Carrion Luggage Ping!.......................
The usual suspect. Again
Please let the Record reflect that this is NOT Florida.....and more specifically NOT Florida Man.
I’ve e been binge watching Forensic Files. Geez but workaday run of the mill people are evil and stupid. It’s something to behold.
— Lanny Davis
He felled out of love, head under heels. Victim was a cougar.
The two were in a “domestic relationship,” a family member told Memphis police,
Love is love?
That Durst guy claimed he didn’t kill his flatmate, but was just worried he might get accused of the murder, so his defense argued his crime was just improper disposal of a corpse. And lacking proof he actually murdered the man (iirc they never found his head), the jury bought it.
They lived in the gayest neighborhood in the entire state.
Duck, flames!
True case of HOMOcide.
Hope he’s doing okay
He will never be the head of a major corporation
Was he vaxed?
Been watching “Buried in the Backyard” — and I concur ...
Memphis. Shocker. Somehow, I think we all knew the city before actually seeing it in the article.
The headline makes me think that if the guy hadn’t cut off the head or had put the body in something else, he would have gotten off.
Like the headline ‘Headless Body Found in Topless Bar’
Well I think I’m going out of my head over you.
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