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Man Claims Panic Led Him to Chop Up Dead Pal's Body, Stuff It In Barrel
Fox News ^
| Wednesday, July 25, 2007
| AP
Posted on 07/26/2007 8:30:20 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Man Claims Panic Led Him to Chop Up Dead Pal's Body, Stuff It In Barrel
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A man charged with improperly disposing of a corpse claims he chopped up his friend's body, stuffed the parts in a metal drum and rolled it into a river in a panic after the friend died of a drug overdose, police said.
The drum, with the body parts inside, was found floating in the Pequonnock River in Bridgeport last week.
Felix Rivera, 23, was charged Tuesday with improper disposal of a dead body after he told police his story of what happened to Charles Gerber, police Lt. James Viadero said.
Police said Rivera told them he and Gerber had been celebrating their release from jail following arrests on assault and weapons-related charges. Gerber, 34, had taken pills, drunk alcohol and smoked the hallucinogen PCP on July 17 before Rivera discovered he had stopped breathing, according to police.
Rivera told police he became "paranoid" and decided to hide the body in a metal drum. When the 5-foot-9, 180-pound body didn't fit, he used an ax to cut off the head, hands and feet, police said.
Police said Rivera then put the drum full of body parts in his car, drove to a boat ramp and rolled it in. Rivera was being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: buddies; corpse; crime; dopefiend; friends; friendship; grisly; panic; paranoia; weird
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With friends like these...
To: DogByte6RER
Meth doesn’t help you think straight...
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:32:02 AM PDT
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: DogByte6RER
I did that to a barbeque chicken I got at the Safeway the other night.
As fas as I know, the chicken did not OD.
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:32:35 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
To: DogByte6RER
Hahahahahahahahha!!! This is just too funny, lol!!!
4
posted on
07/26/2007 8:33:37 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: beer
He's not dead yet...
"I feel happy, I feel happy!"
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:34:42 AM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: RexBeach
‘Ceptin’ the can was in the chicken, not t’other way round.
To: DogByte6RER
Panic causes you to run away screaming, being a vile, disgusting, wretched, sub-human tub of feces gives you the ability to chop the head, hands and feet off of a supposed friend in an effort to stuff them in a drum so you can dispose of the body.
To: DogByte6RER
To reach the port of heaven,
we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,
but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:36:22 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: DogByte6RER
That guy with the dead girl in his closet also claimed it was an OD.
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:37:20 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: DogByte6RER
Shoulda used a wood chipper. Chum...
To: DogByte6RER
“Hold muh beer and watch this...”?
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:44:32 AM PDT
by
Sicon
To: DogByte6RER
“Your turn in the barrel pal.”
To: DogByte6RER
Oh, come on. That is what I do every time I panic.
Just don’t know what I would do without that supply of axes and barrels...
I guess I would have to switch to Prozac...:)
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:47:35 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
To: dixiechick2000; mkjessup; mom4kittys; Sun; circumbendibus; gidget7; Ultra Sonic 007; Calpernia; ...
Police said Rivera told them he and Gerber had been celebrating their release from jail following arrests on assault and weapons-related charges.I'm speechless.
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:53:10 AM PDT
by
AuntB
(" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
To: DogByte6RER
Police said Rivera told them he and Gerber had been celebrating their release from jail following arrests on assault and weapons-related charges. Gerber, 34, had taken pills, drunk alcohol and smoked the hallucinogen PCP on July 17 before Rivera discovered he had stopped breathing, according to police.Talk about dumb and dumber....
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posted on
07/26/2007 8:56:11 AM PDT
by
NRA1995
(To Congress and Mr. President: This is OUR country, and don't you forget it!)
To: DogByte6RER
Good thing he had an ax in his pocket.......
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posted on
07/26/2007 11:20:29 AM PDT
by
Jeffrey_D.
(The only thing I love more than my FreeperFriends is my God, Family and Country !!!!)
To: NRA1995
You do you think they call it ‘dope’?
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posted on
07/26/2007 11:21:29 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: dfwgator
Oops, I meant “Why do you think they call it ‘dope’?”
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posted on
07/26/2007 11:22:02 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(The University of Florida - Still Championship U)
To: DogByte6RER
This reminds me of that crazy, reclusive, mulit-millionaire fellow who also "panicked" and chopped up and disposed of a body a couple of years ago...I believe he was living in Texas. Seems like he beat the murder wrap but got a bit of time on the improper disposal wrap.
It is not completely impossible that one of these I-panicked explanations might be legit. But I think we ought to just make improper disposal a capital crime...with apologies to those innocents who feel an uncontrollable urge to privately put away the lately departed.
To: DogByte6RER; jdm; martin_fierro; dighton; RockinRight; cyborg
...he chopped up his friend's body, stuffed the parts in a metal drum and rolled it into a river in a panic...He should have covered his tracks by putting a suicide note in the barrel.
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posted on
07/26/2007 11:35:37 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(Just say no to Rudy McRomney.)
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