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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