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    Joel Michael Guy Sentenced to Life with the Chance of Parole in 2016 TN Murder of Lisa Guy and Joel Michael Guy Sr.





    Baton Rouge man accused of killing, dismembering parents during Thanksgiving visit

    BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - A Baton Rouge man has been arrested for allegedly murdering his parents during his Thanksgiving visit to their home in Tennessee. The bodies were dismembered and some of the remains were placed in an acid-based solution, authorities said.

    The victims have twin daughters who were given details of their parents death by deputies earlier Wednesday, Knoxville television station WBIR-TV reported.

    Officials with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office held a press conference Wednesday to announce the grisly details of the murder investigation. They say Joel Michael Guy Jr., 29, is accused of murdering his parents, Lisa and Joel Guy Sr., dismembering their bodies, and then dissolving them in an acidic chemical.

    “Both (victims) suffered multiple, vicious stab wounds as well as dismemberment,” said Knoxville County Sheriff’s Major Michael MacLean. MacLean said remains were found throughout the house, WBIR-TV reported.

    The suspect’s need for money might have led to the killings, authorities speculated. However, authorities also said they are checking to see if the couple had a life insurance policy but they do not believe they do, Knoxville television station WBIR-TV reported.

    Investigators say Guy traveled on Thanksgiving to his parents’ home in Knoxville. They believe the murders happened sometime between Friday and Saturday.

    Guy, a college student, was arrested Tuesday at his apartment in Baton Rouge on Nicholson Drive. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and was booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison. The Knox

    County Sheriff's Office reports Joel Guy, Jr. was not employed.

    “It would be described as horrific – a very gruesome crime scene,” MacLean said. “There’s a motivation behind it, but in this case we don’t know what it is,” he said.

    Authorities believe Joel Guy might have stayed in the house for a while after the deaths, the station reported.

    Police were called to the Knoxville home after the suspect’s mother did not show up for work.

    Joel Guy was arrested in the parking lot of his Baton Rouge apartment complex Tuesday as he was trying to get into his 2006 Hyundai Sonata, WBIR-TV reported.

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    Baton Rouge man accused of dismembering parents in Tennessee gets new hearing date following transport glitch

    By Joe Gyan, Jr.
    The Advocate

    A 28-year-old Baton Rouge man accused of stabbing and dismembering his parents in their Tennessee home over the Thanksgiving weekend will spend the Christmas and New Year's holidays at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.

    Joel Michael Guy Jr. was previously scheduled to appear Friday in a Baton Rouge courtroom for an extradition hearing, but the hearing was pushed back to Jan. 6 after Guy's name was inadvertently left off Friday's jail transport list.

    Ad hoc Judge Bruce Bennett set the new date after one of Guy's court-appointed attorneys, Lyn Legier, told the judge Guy was not brought to the 19th Judicial District Courthouse.

    East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney said afterward he expects the extradition hearing to take place Jan. 6 because officials in Tennessee have indicated their paperwork will be completed very soon.

    Guy is accused of trying to dissolve the remains of his parents — Joel Guy Sr., 61, and Lisa Guy, 55 — with a homemade acid-based solution, the Knox County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee has said.

    Joel Guy Jr., who graduated in 2006 from the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts in Natchitoches and previously attended Hahnville High School, was living in a Nicholson Drive apartment complex in Baton Rouge when he was arrested Nov. 29.

    Authorities believe Guy's parents were killed sometime between Nov. 25 — the day after Thanksgiving — and midday on Nov. 26. Guy is believed to have spent at least one night in their Tennessee home after they were dismembered, officials have said.

    Guy's parents, who had been paying many of their son's bills while he lived in Baton Rouge, were in the process of encouraging him to support himself and planned on talking to him over Thanksgiving about cutting off some of their financial support, according to Knox County sheriff's officials.

    Guy is expected to face first-degree murder charges in Tennessee once he is returned to that state.

    http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rou...2bef4eda4.html
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    BR man suspected in Tennessee parents' dismembering ordered sent back to that state

    By Joe Gyan, Jr.
    The Advocate

    The 28-year-old Baton Rouge man suspected in the Thanksgiving weekend stabbing and dismembering of his parents in their Tennessee home was ordered sent back to Knoxville on Friday to face murder charges there.

    Ad hoc 19th Judicial District Judge Bruce Bennett issued the order after Joel Michael Guy Jr. softly confirmed his identity. The judge also found that extradition papers signed by the governors of Louisiana and Tennessee were in proper order.

    East Baton Rouge Parish Assistant District Attorney John Russell cited the possibility of inclement weather and asked for Guy's expedited release from Parish Prison so that two Knox County sheriff's officials, who were in the courtroom, could escort Guy back to Knoxville on Friday. Guy has been held at the prison since his Nov. 29 arrest in Baton Rouge.

    Lindsay Blouin, one of Guy's court-appointed attorneys in Baton Rouge, informed Bennett that Guy invoked his right to remain silent and did not wish to be questioned on his way back to Tennessee.

    Bennett advised the two Knox County sheriff's officials that they were not to question Guy on the drive back to Knoxville. The judge, however, said he could not halt Guy from making any spontaneous statements during his transport.

    Guy is accused of killing his parents, Joel Guy Sr., 61, and Lisa Guy, 55, in their Knoxville home sometime between Nov. 25, the day after Thanksgiving, and midday on Nov. 26.

    He also is accused of trying to dissolve their remains in a homemade acid-based solution.

    http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rou...a6bc770f0.html
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    Trial date set for man charged with brutal murder of his Knox County parents

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    The man charged in the stabbing death and dismemberment of his parents last November will face trial later next year.

    Knox County Judge Bobby McGee set the trail of 28-year-old Joel Guy Jr. for Sept. 10, 2018. Guy Jr.'s defense team has until June 20, 2018 to file a notice of mental health defense.

    Guy Jr. is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of his parents Lisa and Joel Guy Sr.

    Guy Jr. is also charged with two counts of abusing a corpse and one count of felony murder.

    FBI agents arrested Guy Jr. on Nov. 29, 2016 at his apartment complex in Baton Rouge, La. Authorities believe Guy Jr. murdered his parents between Nov. 25 and 26 in 2016 at their West Knox County home.

    Both Lisa and Joel Guy Sr. suffered vicious stab wounds and dismemberment. Authorities discovered their remains in multiple rooms of their home. Guy Jr. placed portions of their remains in an acid-based solution in an attempt to destroy the evidence.

    https://www.wbir.com/article/news/cr...s/51-495773901

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    Joel Guy, accused of killing, dismembering parents inside Knox home, takes witness stand

    By Jamie Satterfield
    Knoxville News Sentinel

    Knox County Sheriff’s Office Detective Jeremy McCord steeled himself for death – and possible violence – when he bent his nose toward a hole in the back door of this Goldenview Lane home two years ago.


    “It was a really odd chemical smell,” McCord testified Monday. “You could feel the heat coming from the door. It alarmed me.”


    The owners of this 2,256-square-foot home – 61-year-old Joel Guy Sr. and 55-year-old wife Lisa Guy – hadn’t been heard from since the day after Thanksgiving 2016. It was the Monday after that holiday, and Lisa Guy hadn’t shown up for work.


    McCord could see groceries on the floor in the foyer through the front door. The Guys’ vehicles were in the driveway. McCord and fellow deputies found a garage door opener in one of those cars. McCord stepped inside the garage and opened a door into the house.


    “The smell is never going to leave me,” he said.


    Hands in Tupperware, head in pot

    The temperature was 93 degrees inside. McCord said heaters had been plugged in and turned on throughout the house. He could hear a dog barking in a room somewhere upstairs. He walked through the kitchen, past a stove where he said a pot caught his attention.

    “The stove is on,” he said. “The pot is on. There’s something in that pot. You could feel the heat coming off the stove.”

    McCord was unnerved. He didn’t stop to check the pot’s contents and headed toward a staircase. When he reached the landing, what McCord saw made him visibly blanch Monday on the witness stand – two years later.


    “(It was) the most horrific thing I’ve ever encountered in police work – in my life,” he said.


    There was blood everywhere – all down the hallway on the walls and floor. McCord saw scissors and clothing that appeared to have been cut from a body and a large knife. He saw bottles of peroxide, bleach, acid and rubbing alcohol. He could smell, he said, the stench of death mixed with those chemicals.


    As he turned toward a bathroom, that’s when he saw the first body part.


    “This item right here,” McCord said, pointing to a photo, “is hands.”


    McCord and his fellow law enforcers would soon find plenty more body parts, many inside “Tupperware containers” strewn throughout an entire floor of the home, he said. Joel and Lisa Guy had been attacked, mortally wounded and dismembered inside their own home.


    Lisa Guy’s head was boiling in that pot on the stove.


    Guy: 'I had some severe cuts'


    McCord testified for the first time Monday in Knox County Criminal Court about the November 2016 macabre double slaying that authorities kept quiet for days – until they had a suspect in custody.

    That suspect? The Guys’ 28-year-old son, Joel Michael Guy Jr.


    Statements in court Monday suggest Guy has confessed to killing his parents. He was still unemployed and had bounced from college to college since his 2006 graduation from a boarding school. His parents, testimony showed, had been footing his bills – and they were tired of it. They apparently told him so when he came to visit for Thanksgiving.


    In a rare move, Guy took the witness stand Monday in Judge Bob McGee’s courtroom as his lead attorney, Assistant Public Defender Jonathan Harwell, launched a bid to get the mountain of evidence against Guy – including Walmart receipts for all those chemicals – tossed out for various legal reasons.


    Harwell made sure before sending his client to the witness stand to legally block Assistant District Attorney General Leslie Nassios from questioning Guy about the killing of his parents. She tried anyway.

    For instance, Guy testified he went to a Walmart on Parkside Drive two days before his parents’ body parts were found and bought some of those chemicals found in their home.


    “I had severe cuts on my hands,” he said, offering no explanation.


    “You didn’t show these injuries to your mother?” Nassios asked on cross-examination.


    “No,” Guy responded.


    “You didn’t show these injuries to your father?” she pressed.


    “No,” he answered.


    “Is there a reason for that?” Nassios said.


    Harwell immediately objected. McGee sided with him. Nassios wasn’t finished trying.


    Guy: 'I saw yellow crime scene tape'


    Guy testified he drove back to Baton Rouge that same day – after the Walmart trip – to get medical care there because he “didn’t have insurance” and figured it would be cheaper near or on a college campus. He said he drove back to Knoxville on the day McCord made his grisly discovery.

    “I saw yellow crime scene tape in the yard,” Guy testified.


    Nassios pounced.


    “You didn’t stop to inquire on what was going on?” she asked.


    “That’s correct,” Guy answered.


    “You didn’t call anybody?” she pressed. “You just went back to Baton Rouge?”


    “Yes,” he said.


    Guy was arrested the next day at his Baton Rouge apartment. McCord said Guy had tried to buy a gun earlier that day at a Baton Rouge sporting goods store but was turned down after he gave a fake name.

    The hearing continues Tuesday. McGee said he would issue a written ruling later. He set a July 22 trial in the case.

    https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/crime/2018/12/04/joel-guy-trial-murder-dismembering-parents-farragut/2187392002/
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    Trial date set in case of Knox Co. man accused of killing, dismembering parents
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    KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – A new trial date has been set for the Knox County man accused of dismembering his parents and putting their bodies in acid.

    Joel Guy Jr.’s trial is now set for September 28th. It had previously been scheduled to start late February.

    In 2017, 31-year-old Joel Guy Jr. was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of abuse of a corpse and one count of felony murder.

    Knox County Sheriff’s Office said they believe Joel Guy Sr. and Lisa Guy were murdered between Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, and Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, at their home on Goldenview Lane. Investigators said both suffered vicious stab wounds, as well as dismemberment.

    Their remains were found in multiple rooms in the house. Investigators say the remains placed portions of the remains in an acid-based solution in an attempt to destroy evidence.

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    Man who 'murdered parents and cut up their bodies' gives permission for death penalty if convicted

    A man accused of murdering and cutting up his parents’ bodies in 2016 is giving a judge permission to impose the death penalty if he is found guilty.

    Joel Guy Jr. filed a handwritten note to the Criminal Court in Knox County, Tennessee, on Tuesday.

    The 32-year-old is accused of plotting to kill parents Joel Guy Sr. and Lisa Guy in November 2016 because they were going to stop giving him financial support.

    The then 28-year-old lived in an apartment with just his dog in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He’d been attending school there.

    Police officers found the accused’s’ parents’ bodies November 28, 2016, cut up and placed in bins in the bathroom, on the floor of the Guys’ Goldenview Lane home and in a pot on the kitchen stove.

    They didn’t find Guy.

    It appeared the killer had still been at work after the killings when he suddenly stopped and left the home, records show.

    Guy had spent the Thanksgiving holiday with his parents.

    Prosecutors believe he killed them Saturday and then went to area stores to buy materials to dispose of them.

    A notebook found in the home suggests he’d been planning the crimes, Nassios has said.

    Jurors will not see many crime scene photos taken by authorities in the house because they are so graphic.

    Death penalty

    According to Guy’s motion, state law and the rules of criminal procedure allow him to waive the required death notice if the state doesn’t file it.

    The waiver isn’t expressly permitted or forbidden, he writes.

    “In the event that I am eventually found guilty of first-degree murder, I contend that the waiver above, if permitted by the court, would free the court to sentence me to death, imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole, or imprisonment for life, in spite of the district attorney general’s failure to satisfy the notice requirements...”

    To be clear, Guy continues, he’s not admitting to murder.

    Knox County prosecutors have chosen not to seek the death penalty against Guy at trial despite the gruesome, violent nature of the alleged crimes.

    When they do seek death, a separate hearing is held after the jury convicts the defendant of first-degree murder.

    Guy is considered highly intelligent. The defense isn’t trying to show that he suffers from any mental defect or impairment.

    As it stands, if he’s convicted of first-degree murder he faces an automatic term of life in prison.

    Guy’s trial is set to start this week.

    Defense attorneys - Guy has a team of veteran lawyers who have handled dozens of murder cases through the decades - declined to comment.

    https://7news.com.au/news/world/man-...cted-c-1329804
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    Gruesome details revealed in trial of son accused of killing, dissolving parents

    State prosecutors described the scene as a 'diabolical stew of human remains'

    By David Aaro
    Fox News

    Graphic details emerged this week during the trial of a man accused of killing and dissolving his parent's bodies in acid over Thanksgiving weekend in 2016.

    Joel Michael Guy Jr., 32, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, felony murder, and abuse of a corpse in the killings of Lisa and Joel Guy Sr.

    The former Louisiana State University student was 28 years old when he allegedly killed them inside their Tennessee residence. The couple had been married for 31 years.

    “(It was) the most horrific thing I’ve ever encountered in police work – in my life,” Knox County Sheriff’s Office Detective Jeremy McCord said, the Knoxville News Sentinel reported.

    Knox County Assistant District Attorney General Leslie Nassios warned jurors on Thursday about the potential graphic display during the trial.

    “The fact is you’re going to hear evidence that is truly graphic and disturbing,” she said. “There’s no other way to characterize it.”

    According to testimony at the trial on Tuesday, a man's severed hands were found in an upstairs exercise room and two tubs were filled with body parts in industrial chemicals. Bloodstains covered the walls, floors and sheets. Authorities said they found knives in multiple rooms of the house.

    "It was very traumatic," McCord, the lead investigator in the case, told jurors, Knoxville's WBIR reported.

    McCord said they discovered a half-dozen fingerprints belonging to the suspect. He and another officer lifted the lid on a stockpot on the stove and found Lisa Guy's head, according to the station.

    Nassios said Lisa Guy was stabbed 31 times, with legs severed below the knee and her arms were severed at the shoulder. Her head was removed from her spine after blunt force trauma, officials said during the hearing.

    Joel Guy Sr.'s hands were severed at the wrists and his arms were severed at the shoulder blade, court records showed. Both his legs and right foot were also removed.

    Limbs were then placed in 45-gallon containers, covered with a corrosive substance and left to liquify, officials added, according to Knoxville's WVLT-TV.

    It was described by state prosecutors as a “diabolical stew of human remains."

    The accused killer's aunt testified on Monday that the couple was about to cut him off financially, according to the station.

    The prosecution claimed that a notebook was recovered in the suspect's room that included a detailed list of steps to cover up a murder.

    "Money, all mine. I get the whole thing," one alleged entry read.

    Others allegedly read: "Get killing knives ... get sledgehammer - crush bones" and "Bring blender and food grinder - grind meat."

    The suspect arrived at his parents' home on Wednesday, Nov. 23. He spent Thanksgiving with his parents and three sisters before he returned to Baton Rouge on Nov. 27. When his mother failed to show up for work the next day, her bosses called the sheriff's office, the paper reported.

    Investigators would found evidence -- including receipts for chemicals -- in the home that they said linked the suspect to the killings.

    He has denied the charges.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/trial-beg...ed-bodies-acid
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    Joel Guy Jr. sentenced to life in prison for murder, dismemberment of parents in 2016 slayings at Knox County home

    By Gregory Raucoules
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    KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Joel Guy Jr. will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Knox County jury found him guilty of murdering and dismembering his parents over Thanksgiving weekend in 2016.

    Guy Jr. was unanimously convicted on all seven charges: two counts premeditated first-degree murder, three counts of felony murder and two counts of abuse of a corpse. Knox County judge Steven Sword sentenced him to life in prison.

    After four days of testimony, the jury went into deliberation Thursday afternoon. The jury was dismissed just after 5 p.m. to continue deliberation Friday.

    Joel Guy Sr. and Lisa Guy were brutally murdered and dismembered in their West Knoxville home over the Thanksgiving 2016 holiday weekend.

    In four days, prosecutors Leslie Nassios and Hector Sanchez introduced hundreds of pieces of evidence and dozens of witnesses to support the case that Guy Jr. planned to kill and dismember his parents, motivated by financial gain.

    One of the key pieces of evidence was a notebook filled with details of the murders. The notebook, according to state prosecutors, proves that Guy Jr. was motivated by a 500K insurance plan, of which, he was the beneficiary.

    Jurors heard from Guy Sr.’s daughters, from a previous marriage, who spoke about their father’s love for his wife, Lisa. The couple was married 31 years. According to testimony, the family knew that Guy Jr. would be cut off financially by his parents.

    https://www.wate.com/news/joel-guy-j...x-county-home/
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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