Man beheads girlfriend; cops text him from her phone, he digs her up to ensure she's dead - Polidicks

[url]http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/broward/miramar/fl-miramar-murder-arrest-20100415,0,185168.story[/url] [release]Unaware of the grisly fate that had befallen Lisa Spence, police investigating her disappearance had her cell phone number assigned to a new phone and sent a text message to their main suspect. "Just wait til I got better," the message read. It worked. Minutes after they sent the message, police saw Paul Edwards, 44, get into his mother's car and drive to several South Florida locations, one of which would later lead police to Spence's decapitated body. Edwards was arrested Wednesday on one count of first-degree murder. On Thursday he was ordered held without bail. Police accuse him of stabbing Spence, his 35-year-old girlfriend, more than 33 times, cutting off her head and stuffing her body into a barrel, which was found two months later in northern Miami-Dade County. The head remains missing. The investigation was outlined in an arrest warrant the Sun Sentinel obtained on Thursday. Spence disappeared Oct. 7, and was last seen at the beauty supply shop where she worked. After her disappearance, according to the warrant, Edwards sent several text messages from her phone to convince her friends and family that she had suddenly left town and gotten a new job. No one believed it. It was not Spence's habit to send text messages, friends and family told police. And there was no way she would let her daughter's 18th birthday go by on Oct. 14 without calling her in Trinidad and Tobago. Spence's friends told police she was planning to move out of the apartment she shared with Edwards in the 7500 block of Venetian Street, a short distance from her job. She didn't want to gather her belongings while he was home, and he had been calling in sick all week, according to the warrant. Spence was a native of Trinidad and Tobago who moved to South Florida about four years ago to join a boyfriend from her Caribbean homeland, family members told police. She worked as a cashier at both Bella Beauty Supplies and the Kwik Stop convenience store, located side-by-side in a strip shopping center in the 7500 block of Pembroke Road in Miramar. The arrest warrant contains 10 text messages sent from Spence's cell phone to her brother after her disappearance. "I am sad because I will miss Paul," one message said. "With all that happened he was still good to me in the end." The messages indicated that Spence was in the Jacksonville area — "i don't really know d place," one said — but records showed her cell phone never left South Florida, according to the warrant. Edwards' cell phone was always close to hers, police said. Police decided to prod Edwards on Nov. 5 by having Spence's cell phone number assigned to a new phone and using it to send a text message to him. Edwards was apparently unaware that police followed him to several locations, including northern Miami-Dade County, the warrant states. On Dec. 16, police returned to an address in the 20700 block of Northwest 41st Avenue in Miami Gardens and searched a vacant field. Two police dogs that specialize in detecting human remains led police to a sealed, 55-gallon barrel. The barrel was taken to the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's Office, where it was opened. Spence's remains were inside. Blood matching the victim was also found in the apartment Edwards and Spence shared and in the back of a rented Toyota Highlander that Edwards admitted to driving around the time of Spence's disappearance, the arrest warrant said. One of Spence's friends told police he had seen a similar-looking barrel in the apartment Edwards and Spence shared. Spence would occasionally use the barrel to ship items to Trinidad, the friend said. Efforts to locate Spence's family were unsuccessful Thursday. Employees at the beauty supply shop declined to comment. [/release] That's definitely not how to get ahead in life.

Haha. Wow.

I like how they derive a joke out of a brutal murder

Not only did she not get ahead, she got her ass canned.

Why would you go make sure she's dead if she's missing a head? Someone's been playing too much resident evil

[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;21519343]Why would you go make sure she's dead if she's missing a head? Someone's been playing too much resident evil[/QUOTE] Yeah, he sounds kind of :downs:. I mean, how could you forget that YOU FUCKING BEHEADED HER?

"Man beheads girlfriend; cops text him from her phone, he digs her up to ensure she's dead" :cawg:

I would be more :tinfoil: zombies than anything

If I were him I would've just texted her back "get back in the goddamn kitchen, woman!"

[quote]Edwards was arrested Wednesday on one count of first-degree murder. On Thursday he was ordered held without bail. Police accuse him of stabbing Spence, his 35-year-old girlfriend, more than 33 times, cutting off her head and stuffing her body into a barrel, which was found two months later in northern Miami-Dade County. [B]The head remains missing.[/B] The investigation was outlined in an arrest warrant the Sun Sentinel obtained on Thursday. [/quote] I like how the bolded part gets its own line, as if the article's author wanted to add some drama.

"Just wait til I got better," Looks like the jokes already been made in this news story. Damn shame.

God some people are stupid. Checking if a headless body is dead.

[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;21519724]"Man beheads girlfriend; cops text him from her phone, he digs her up to ensure she's dead" :cawg:[/QUOTE] Lol how did the cops even get her phone, i mean you would at least get rid off her phone.

I didn't even think the police could do stuff like this.

[QUOTE=PrismatexV8;21519272]Paul Edwards, [b]44, get into his mother's car[/b][/QUOTE] What.

ahahaha, almost can't believe anyone's that stupid..

wow...

[QUOTE=Jessesmith1;21524042]wow...[/QUOTE] Exactly what I thought.

[QUOTE=Docc;21524117]Exactly what I thought.[/QUOTE] that's the only thing i can think of the amount of stupidity... just... wow.

[QUOTE=RobMckenzie;21520916]Lol how did the cops even get her phone, i mean you would at least get rid off her phone.[/QUOTE] Read the article and find out.

I guess you could say she [i]lost her mind[/i].