A 28-year-old man was arrested in Louisiana on charges of killing and dismembering his parents at their Tennessee home.
Joel Michael Guy Jr. was arrested Tuesday on a fugitive warrant in Baton Rouge, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office said. He’s accused of killing his parents, Joel Michael Guy Sr., 61, and Lisa Guy, 55.
They are believed to have been killed Friday or Saturday.
The Tennessee sheriff’s office, in a news release, said both victims were stabbed and dismembered, with remains found in multiple rooms in the house. Portions of the remains were discovered in an acid-based solution, in an apparent attempt to destroy evidence.
“Both suffered multiple, vicious stab wounds as well as dismemberment,” sheriff’s Maj. Michael MacLean tells WBIR-TV.
He called the crime scene “gruesome.”
“It would be described as horrific — a very gruesome crime scene,” said MacLean, adding that there was no indication why the remains were scattered.
Authorities said the suspect, who lives in Baton Rouge and attended LSU until last year, had visited his parents for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The parents were last seen Friday. Signs indicate they struggled, said MacLean, who added that authorities believe Guy stayed in the house after the bodies were dismembered.
Investigators spent much of Monday going through the couple’s home after they were told the mother didn’t show up for work.
MacLean said authorities with the FBI, the Knox County Sheriff’s Office and the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office placed Guy under surveillance during the past few days and apprehended him at his Baton Rouge apartment Tuesday when he tried to get into his 2006 Hyundai Sonata.
Guy has declined to talk with authorities. Online jail records did not list an attorney for him.
MacLean has said Guy allegedly needed money and met with his parents to discuss that issue. He said Guy has two sisters in Maryville and another in Kingsport. The sheriff’s office spoke with them but they told investigators their brother didn’t give them any indication that anything was wrong.
Officials expect to return him to Knox County in the next couple of days.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
find the nearest TREE justice be done
amen
“Give’m a fair trial, then take’m out and hang’m” — Frontier judge, Roy Beane
Another failed millennial gone bad. Parents must have refused to fund the deadbeat any longer. He couldn’t have it his way so he murdered and butchered them because an alternative like working for a living wasn’t appropriate. Insanity rules.
DON’T HAVE KIDS ? Let them grow up to be cowboys if you do.
Signs of demonic possession? Just thinking out loud.
Just another entitled kid. If you don’t give me what I want, I will kill you. Just like protesters. I didn’t get it the way I wanted it to end so I rant, rave, scream, loot, burn and destroy. And we thought the terrible twos were bad!!
As a minority I have a question, why is it when it is a white person who commits a crime they have his age, race, picture, a description of the vehicle they drive and where they live, but when it is a minority with multiple witnesses they have very little on the perpetrator of the crime, including the description of the person or person committing the crime?
Because we crackers are fair game. PC dictates that we must not cross that racial divide and create controversy by offending one who might be a protected class (sarc).
If this guy did this heinous crime hopefully he will get the death penalty. If a crime of this nature doesn’t warrant the death penalty none will.
This is what is going on in our country right now! The children and rebels are in charge and nothing is too bad for them to do to anyone who doesn’t agree and let them have their own way. Too many children running wild with no mother and/or father to teach them any values. All drugs are available and encouraged. If we don’t get this under control we have lost our country, if it isn’t already too late.
Let’s see now. A 28 year old male was attending college up to last year and was running into a hard time with finances this year. It does not say he graduated, or indicate he had any career or even a record of any working life. Current reporting methods would indicate that. Perhaps a career student, overexposed and contaminated by the current liberal attitudes prevalent across U.S. Educational institutions, who blame their governmant and their parents for their weakness and failure to succeed at… anything…
I agree with a lot of the above comments and I say hanging and the electric chair and lethical injection aren’t good enough.
Maybe he thought he was carving up turkeys?