Butcher Saws & Wine Coolers

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it She was 47 and he was 64. Both had been officers with the Baltimore Police Department, she from 1968 to 1982 and he from 1954 to 1975, and they met while working in its community service division. William retired on a disability pension. this part of the story is covered for now They married on 23 October 1973 and divorced in February 1977 after one of William's long disappearances. She hired a private detective to find him so that she could serve the papers, and discovered he was living in Jarrettsville, Maryland, with another woman who also had three children. He returned in June 1978, wined and dined her, and they remarried six days later. About four years afterwards they moved to Delaware, where she became a corrections officer at the Women's Correctional Institute in Claymont and also worked part time at a liquor store in Camden, while they bought the Riverside Trailer Park. In 1984 William was the cook and kitchen manager at the Modern Maturity Center in Dover. The couple were behind on a complicated mortgage and faced a balloon payment of $69,000 in the summer of 1984.

On 28 July 1984 the Modern Maturity Center held a picnic excursion to Hawkison, Delaware. William went along unpaid as an after hours volunteer. The group returned to the centre at about three in the afternoon, he helped to unpack and settle the old people, and he left at about four. Two neighbours saw him park his white Oldsmobile in the driveway of the house and walk inside. details of the account remain covered until revealed That evening she telephoned Martha Bowman, the manager of the liquor store where she worked, and said she could not come in on the following Monday because her husband had abandoned her.

The account she gave changed from day to day. On Sunday 29 July she told Florence Hoffman, the secretary at the centre, that William would not be at work on Monday because he had quit, that they had argued on the Saturday evening, and that he had moved out with his belongings and some furniture in a blue pickup truck. That same Sunday she went to a birthday lunch for her mother at noon and had dinner with relatives. On the Monday she telephoned Florence again and added that he had also taken his Mercury Cougar and about $4,000 in cash. On Tuesday 31 July the director of the centre, Robert Bonawell, spoke to her himself. She said William had left in the cougar after an argument, that the headlights dimmed as he drove away, and that he had come back the next day in a blue pickup truck for more possessions. Bonawell knew that William had traded the cougar in a month earlier and had seen it for sale on the dealer's lot, and he thought the stories did not match. She also asked Martha Bowman for boxes, saying she was moving out of the house and into the trailer park they owned, and collected a Sun Country Coolers wine box from the liquor store.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it She telephoned her friend Catherine Nye and said she was sure William had done it as a joke, because only she and Bill had keys. On 8 August the Dover police received a report of several large green trash bags on Persimmon Tree Lane that had been there for days and were giving off a foul smell. A patrolman decided they contained an animal carcass, and a sanitation crew took them to the city dump. The next day maintenance workers at the Field Crest Apartments near Dover found a Sun Country Coolers box sitting on top of a dumpster. George Big opened the garbage bag inside, put his hand in, thinking he had found a dead cat, and pulled out a human head crawling with maggots.

The police went back to the dump and recovered the bags. One held a human torso; there were also deodoriser pads, a Shell product called Cancare that had been discontinued in 1975. On 10 August the medical examiner reported that the head was that of a middle-aged white man, probably in his fifties, with full upper and lower dentures, killed by a gunshot to the back of the neck. The newspapers called it the Dover Torso murder. On 29 November 1984 human legs and one foot were found in a trash bag at the Bombay Hook Wildlife Sanctuary near Dover. The hands and one foot were never found.

The search of the Shipley house on 21 August 1984 produced a mattress with a blood soaked section cut out of it, a baseball cap, a revolver, an empty revolver box, a box of ammunition, blue fibres, a wristwatch, trash bags, Cancare pads and a photograph of William. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed The daughter who had nursed him after his teeth were pulled testified that he had bled heavily then, and that he had cut the mattress where it was stained. The state's experts, including Henry Lee, said the blood was from a single event less than a year old. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed Her bail was set at $175,000 and her two brothers mortgaged their homes to post it. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now The defence argued that the body was not William and that if it was, she had not put him there. On 28 April 1987 the defence claimed that William had been seen alive in the Baltimore area; a Dover woman who played bingo at the centre said she had seen him at a supermarket in June 1986, but the man the state produced as a look alike had a moustache, which William never had.

details of the account remain covered until revealed She had no explanation for the fresh blood, and repeatedly said that it had been a stressful day and she did not remember. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now