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- A man from Pennsylvania was charged with criminal homicide and abuse of a corpse after brutally killing gay roommate.
- The victim was said to have been murdered after making a sexual advance towards the suspect.
A man from the state of Pennsylvania is facing life in prison as he is accused of chopping off gay roommate’s head after a sexual advance.
The man, named John Dickinson, 42, was charged with criminal homicide and abuse of corpse, for killing Kevin Thompson, 46. Thompson’s mom was informed by the police after his son had gone missing which she then told them to go to his home in Parkfield Street in Carrick.
Upon arriving at his home, the police found dried blood all over the kitchen and the walls leading up to Thompson’s room. The investigators stated that they had smelled a strong odor coming from the backyard shed wherein they noticed flies surrounding a bag of dog food. And inside the bag, they discovered a garbage bag that contained what they believed to be blood and human remains.
Furthermore, the police also discovered a human torso wrapped in two trash bags in the basement while they found a few other plastic bags containing limbs and a severed head back in the shed.
And a medical examiner has confirmed that the body parts belonged to Thompson, who died from blunt force trauma and multiple stab wounds on the chest. The murder was said to have happened sometime between May 27 and May 29.
As the investigation continues, witnesses came forward and stated that they were with the suspect, Dickinson, watching television when they saw a news report about a dismembered body being discovered in the area.
Dickinson then said to them “I did that”. It was said that the two men got into a fight after Thompson made a ‘sexual advance’ towards him.
The witnesses also told the police that they found a notebook belonging to the said suspect wherein the phrase “This is John Dickinson. I am responsible for the death of Kevin Thompson. I had no help whatsoever” was written.
Dickinson was Thompson’s roommate and the two have known each other for decades and even dated in the 1990s.
Dickinson’s half-brother, Richard Brazell, said that the accused killer spent his childhood in a foster home and told the KDKA-TV that there was no sign that he was “unhinged”.
“I mean, he’s not… to us, we don’t know him as a murderer. He’s our brother,
I don’t know (what happened). I just know we lost our older brother, Chuck, a few months ago, to a heroin overdose. That was his closest person. Losing him may have triggered something that sparked this violent outburst. I just hopes everything works out for all the parties involved.
I’m terribly sorry for their loss, it’s very tragic, I pray they can get justice. I pray they have justice, I really do.”
The suspect has a history of spending time in prison for having a “violent streak”.
