6 years ago, a man mysteriously disappeared, his roommate was then suspected of murder. On Thursday August 24, the fiftieth would have called the police to confess to his crime and his motive is quite surprising.
A Massachusetts man is charged with the murder of his roommate. According to local police, human remains have just been found in his basement.
The facts go back six years. john hallett, A 54-year-old man from Massachusetts (USA) was arrested five days ago, police said.
According to the American media Law and Crime He is accused of killing his roommate Paul Gonzales in November 2017.
According to a police press releaseAn investigation was launched in August 2022 which found the fifty-year-old murdered him by hitting him with a blunt object before choking him.
To hide his crime then he would have it “ripped open”cut out his body with a hacksaw and “threw the remains into various public rubbish bins”.
A mail theft went wrong
According to court documents, the accused called the police on August 24. to confess to killing his roommate and keeping his body in the basement of his building for 56 days.
“John believed Paul was stealing his mail and that he was trying to kick him out of his home,” the investigator, who obtained the suspect’s confession, said.
To verify his confession, investigators went to the scene and called in a dog from the Cynophile Brigade, which specializes in finding bodies. The animal smelled human remains in the basement of the building where the accused lives.
John Hallett was eventually arrested and taken into custody. The man is accused of murder and abuse of a corpse. He is currently in prison without bail awaiting trial.