Woman Gets Life For Dismembering Man With Chainsaw, Rolling Head Down Hill

[matcom]

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A San Bernardino County woman convicted of murdering a Korean War veteran, and who told police she dismembered his body with a chain saw and rolled his head down a hill off Mt. Baldy Road, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Marcia Ann Johnson, 44, and her partner drained the bank accounts and sold the home of the victim, Mt. Baldy resident Jack Irwin, after the grisly 1999 murder.

Johnson filed a missing persons report, saying that she had dropped off Irwin, 71, at a train station for a trip to Washington state and he had never returned.

"You told police Mr. Irwin purchased a train ticket to see the Emerald City of Seattle, but the jury did not believe that," Superior Court Judge Gus James Skropos told Johnson at the sentencing hearing in Rancho Cucamonga. "What they bought was that he purchased a one-way ticket to the afterworld from you, and that the ticket was punched — not by a conductor, but by you."

Two years after Irwin's disappearance, San Bernardino County sheriff's detectives and the district attorney's office opened a "cold case'' investigation.

Authorities determined that Johnson and her lesbian partner, Judy Gellert, had befriended Irwin just months before his disappearance. They had persuaded him to add them to his trust, and to give them access to his bank accounts.

By tracking months of withdrawals and purchases from Irwin's accounts following his disappearance, investigators determined that the pair had collected $310,000 in a "systematic looting" of Irwin's bank accounts and other assets, prosecutor Tristan Svare said.

http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-me-headless16dec16.story

[sniffa]

1. that just sounds so cartoonish

roLLing a head down a hiLL?

[ooglymoogly]

7. do you think it was soccer mom envy? eom

[Deja Q]

2. You know, a stock soccer ball at Target costs only $10...

:eyes:

Marcia, Marcia, Marcia! That chick was crackers, that's for sure. I wonder how she'll find jail to be...

[htuttle]

3. Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water....

:scared:

[lonestarnot]

4. Ewee This sista mean beness!

[Fridays Child]

5. Oh, she's a lesbian. Well, that explains it. /sarcasm

What the hell does her sexual orientation have to do with this? It bugs the shit out of me that the author included that detail.

[opihimoimoi]

6. Gives Hill Side Bowling a new meaning

[quiet.american]

8. Love what the judge said

QUOTE:
"You told police Mr. Irwin purchased a train ticket to see the Emerald City of Seattle, but the jury did not believe that," Superior Court Judge Gus James Skropos told Johnson at the sentencing hearing in Rancho Cucamonga. "What they bought was that he purchased a one-way ticket to the afterworld from you, and that the ticket was punched — not by a conductor, but by you."

Should this guy be writing hard-boiled detective novels or what!

[Left Is Write]

10. I thought so too!

[quiet.american]

11. :) n/t

[mac56]

9. Heads will roll!

Sorry, it had to be said.