Man driving with wife's severed head crashes; kills 2

dr. what · Post by **dr. what** » 2006-06-16 01:02pm

BOISE, Idaho (AP) - A man transporting his wife's severed head in a pickup truck crashed into an oncoming car, killing a woman and her four-year-old daughter, police said. The impact sent the head flying onto the road.

A Boise police officer was driving behind Alofa Time's truck on a busy road when he noticed the man's erratic driving and then watched him slam into the car, police spokeswoman Lynn Hightower said.

Time, 51, who was not injured, told officers he was involved his wife's death, investigators said.

After searching Time's house in Nampa, police found the decapitated body of 47-year-old Theresa Time in a car inside the garage, authorities said. She likely had been dead for several hours, said Lieut. LeRoy Forsman of the Nampa Police Department.

An autopsy was scheduled next week to determine Theresa Time's cause of death, said Canyon County Coroner Vicki DeGeus-Morris.

Time was being held on two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Samantha Nina Murphy, 36, of Boise, and her daughter Jae Lynne Grimes. Murphy's other daughter was injured and was in stable condition at a Boise hospital.

"It was one of the more horrific and complex crime scenes on memory," Hightower said. "A woman and her child killed in a crash, and a severed head from an earlier homicide: It's nothing short of bizarre and tragic."

Gustav32Vasa · Post by **Gustav32Vasa** » 2006-06-16 04:10pm

And he is unharmed.

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2006-06-16 05:05pm

Geezus, what was he planning on doing with the severed head? Why would you take that along with you on a drive? Sick, this is just sick. I hope he rots in jail for this.

KrauserKrauser · Post by **KrauserKrauser** » 2006-06-16 05:08pm

Cause of death? Maybe a severe case of lacking a head.

Sounds possible.

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2006-06-16 05:10pm

KrauserKrauser wrote:Cause of death? Maybe a severe case of lacking a head.

Sounds possible.

Might have died before for whatever reason. Best get cause of death nailed down before beginning procedings -- on that death, at least.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2006-06-16 05:33pm

Lord Zentei wrote:
Might have died before for whatever reason. Best get cause of death nailed down before beginning procedings -- on that death, at least.

Yeah but why take the head for a drive?

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2006-06-16 06:31pm

Because if you're in the kind of state of mind that makes chopping your wife's head off seem like a sensible plan, all bets are pretty much off from that point on.

I'm guessing that the guy was either

a. Not mentally stable to begin with.

or

b. Under chemical influence.

Hence the crashing, and the heads, and so on.

Molyneux · Post by **Molyneux** » 2006-06-16 06:47pm

Cpl Kendall wrote:
Lord Zentei wrote:
Might have died before for whatever reason. Best get cause of death nailed down before beginning procedings -- on that death, at least.
Yeah but why take the head for a drive?

If it was in ice or something, I would have thought that he was trying to get it somewhere it could be preserved, or something.

Things being as they are, the guy just seems to be a nutcase. It's tragic that two innocents (and possibly a third) suffered from his idiocy.

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2006-06-16 06:49pm

Guys, my husband is not that dumb, he knows the guy must have been sick or fucked up, he just had a WTF moment just like I did a few posts up from his

Kinda made me think that he wanted one last drive with his wife and her head was the easiest thing to lug around with him.

Post by **Kuja** » 2006-06-16 11:03pm

I see Dr. What the Fuck has struck again.

dr. what · Post by **dr. what** » 2006-06-17 01:05am

Some guys will do anything to get some head.

~runs away from thrown objects~

felineki · Post by **felineki** » 2006-06-17 02:13am

It amuses me to no end that the impact actually sent the severed head flying out of the vehicle, onto the road. That's like something you'd expect from a movie.

Mrs Kendall · Post by **Mrs Kendall** » 2006-06-17 08:57am

dr. what wrote:Some guys will do anything to get some head.

~runs away from thrown objects~

I'm sorry, this might make me seem unsympathetic and all that stuff, and maybe I'm only laughing cause I didn't get much sleep lastnight but

I can't hold it back

Redleader34 · Post by **Redleader34** » 2006-06-17 12:04pm

Unbefreakin belivable. this sounds like a bad pulp diction novel