Have sex with it of course! Well if you are this guy you do. This happened about 10 minutes away from my house.
TENINO: Local man had woman's remains in his truck, admits sex act with body but denies killing her
JEREMY PAWLOSKI; Staff writer | • Published August 10, 2010
A 26-year-old Tenino man who was pulled over Sunday night with a dead woman in his pickup told police he had discovered the dead body, bloody and in "pretty bad shape," on the Chehalis Western Trail hours earlier and then had sex with the body, court papers state.
The suspect, Bernard Keith Howell of Keithan Street in Tenino, told a judge Monday that he is self-employed and delivers meat in Tenino. There was a refrigerator unit in the bed of Howell’s pickup when he was arrested Sunday night, but it was empty, according to Thurston County sheriff’s detective Steve Hamilton.
Howell was ordered held at the Thurston County Jail on Monday on suspicion of second-degree murder during a court hearing before Superior Court Judge Christine Pomeroy. Bail was set at $750,000. He has no criminal record.
An autopsy is scheduled for today. Warnock said she died of homicidal violence, but he would not elaborate.
She is thought to have been killed in the area of the Chehalis Western Trail east of Churchill Road in Tenino, where detectives with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office located “blood evidence as well as other physical evidence,” court papers state. A Toyota RAV4 thought to have belonged to the victim was discovered on state Route 507, court papers state.
Howell has admitted to Hamilton that he took $11 and her car keys from her pockets, court papers state.
According to court papers:
A sheriff’s deputy pulled Howell’s Nissan pickup over about 8:15 p.m. Sunday while on regular patrol in Tenino near Dave’s Thriftway. A man had earlier flagged the deputy down and told him “that there was a suspicious male subject up the road that was attempting to move a body.” The man who flagged the deputy down said the suspicious male had asked him if he “could help him move this body.” The witness then pointed to a pickup and said it was the vehicle that belonged to the man who was attempting to move the body.
The sheriff’s deputy and a Tenino police officer pulled over the pickup and saw a mass of sleeping bags and blankets in the passenger seat. A human body was inside. “They checked the victim for a pulse and did not find one.”
The driver of the pickup, later identified as Howell, told Hamilton that “he just wanted to save the family of this woman the $5,000 it would cost to bury her. Mr. Howell stated that he just wanted to give her a free funeral and not have the family pay any money.”
Howell told Hamilton that he had “brought plastic bags, a sleeping bag, zip ties, bungee-type elastic cords and a 10-pound weight with him.” Howell said he brought the 10-pound weight to “help her body sink.” Howell denied having anything to do with the woman’s death.
Early Monday morning, Thurston County sheriff’s detectives obtained a search warrant for Howell’s Nissan pickup. As of Monday afternoon, the pickup had been removed from where it had been pulled over in the area of Parkside Elementary School in Tenino. Detectives also got a search warrant for the home on Keithan Street where Howell lives with his father. Howell’s father also is named Bernard Keith Howell.
The father, 57, said in an interview outside his home Monday that his son’s arrest is “the worst thing that’s happened to me in the world.” He said he had been up all night crying after being awakened by police around 11:30 p.m. Sunday night.
He said relatives had noticed that his son had been acting erratically as of late. “I hope he goes where he gets some medical help, because he does have a screw loose,” Howell’s father said.
According to court papers, Howell’s son told a court official “that his family wanted him to see a doctor in the past, but he would never return to one after the high cost and little help.”
But Howell’s father also said his son is a “people person,” and was well-thought-of by the family. His son was a good student and was a wrestler in high school, the father said. Until about a month ago, Howell said, his son had been staying with his mother in Lakewood.
He said his son delivered gourmet meats for a living, but that the business had fallen on hard times because of the recession.
Howell said his son dated a couple of women, and those women were older than him. He added that he worries that his son may have gotten involved with methamphetamine, and that he was hanging out with drug users who frequented the area of the Chehalis Western Trail in Tenino.
Hamilton confirmed Monday that the area of the Chehalis Western Trail in Tenino had been frequented by a criminal element.
Howell said the family lived on Whidbey Island for a time before moving to the Port Townsend area. He said he hoped for the best outcome for his son, but conceded that it didn’t look good.
“When you’re caught driving a truck with a body in the back, in a sleeping bag, that’s pretty incriminating to me,” he said.
According to court papers, after Howell was arrested he changed his story during a second interview with Hamilton. During the second interview, Howell still maintained he had nothing to do with the woman’s death. However, Howell admitted that after discovering the body, he “became sexually aroused” and had sex with the dead woman.
Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott, who is in charge of another unsolved local disappearance, that of 11-year-old Lindsey Baum on June 26, 2009, was reached by cell phone out of state on Monday afternoon. Scott said he had not heard of Sunday night’s homicide in Tenino and he had no reason to think that it might be connected to Lindsey’s disappearance in McCleary.
Jeremy Pawloski: 360-754-5465 [email protected]
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2010/08/10/1331258/body-leads-to-arrest.html#ixzz0wDj5JVmv
TENINO: Local man had woman's remains in his truck, admits sex act with body but denies killing her
JEREMY PAWLOSKI; Staff writer | • Published August 10, 2010
A 26-year-old Tenino man who was pulled over Sunday night with a dead woman in his pickup told police he had discovered the dead body, bloody and in "pretty bad shape," on the Chehalis Western Trail hours earlier and then had sex with the body, court papers state.
The suspect, Bernard Keith Howell of Keithan Street in Tenino, told a judge Monday that he is self-employed and delivers meat in Tenino. There was a refrigerator unit in the bed of Howell’s pickup when he was arrested Sunday night, but it was empty, according to Thurston County sheriff’s detective Steve Hamilton.
Howell was ordered held at the Thurston County Jail on Monday on suspicion of second-degree murder during a court hearing before Superior Court Judge Christine Pomeroy. Bail was set at $750,000. He has no criminal record.
An autopsy is scheduled for today. Warnock said she died of homicidal violence, but he would not elaborate.
She is thought to have been killed in the area of the Chehalis Western Trail east of Churchill Road in Tenino, where detectives with the Thurston County Sheriff’s Office located “blood evidence as well as other physical evidence,” court papers state. A Toyota RAV4 thought to have belonged to the victim was discovered on state Route 507, court papers state.
Howell has admitted to Hamilton that he took $11 and her car keys from her pockets, court papers state.
According to court papers:
A sheriff’s deputy pulled Howell’s Nissan pickup over about 8:15 p.m. Sunday while on regular patrol in Tenino near Dave’s Thriftway. A man had earlier flagged the deputy down and told him “that there was a suspicious male subject up the road that was attempting to move a body.” The man who flagged the deputy down said the suspicious male had asked him if he “could help him move this body.” The witness then pointed to a pickup and said it was the vehicle that belonged to the man who was attempting to move the body.
The sheriff’s deputy and a Tenino police officer pulled over the pickup and saw a mass of sleeping bags and blankets in the passenger seat. A human body was inside. “They checked the victim for a pulse and did not find one.”
The driver of the pickup, later identified as Howell, told Hamilton that “he just wanted to save the family of this woman the $5,000 it would cost to bury her. Mr. Howell stated that he just wanted to give her a free funeral and not have the family pay any money.”
Howell told Hamilton that he had “brought plastic bags, a sleeping bag, zip ties, bungee-type elastic cords and a 10-pound weight with him.” Howell said he brought the 10-pound weight to “help her body sink.” Howell denied having anything to do with the woman’s death.
Early Monday morning, Thurston County sheriff’s detectives obtained a search warrant for Howell’s Nissan pickup. As of Monday afternoon, the pickup had been removed from where it had been pulled over in the area of Parkside Elementary School in Tenino. Detectives also got a search warrant for the home on Keithan Street where Howell lives with his father. Howell’s father also is named Bernard Keith Howell.
The father, 57, said in an interview outside his home Monday that his son’s arrest is “the worst thing that’s happened to me in the world.” He said he had been up all night crying after being awakened by police around 11:30 p.m. Sunday night.
He said relatives had noticed that his son had been acting erratically as of late. “I hope he goes where he gets some medical help, because he does have a screw loose,” Howell’s father said.
According to court papers, Howell’s son told a court official “that his family wanted him to see a doctor in the past, but he would never return to one after the high cost and little help.”
But Howell’s father also said his son is a “people person,” and was well-thought-of by the family. His son was a good student and was a wrestler in high school, the father said. Until about a month ago, Howell said, his son had been staying with his mother in Lakewood.
He said his son delivered gourmet meats for a living, but that the business had fallen on hard times because of the recession.
Howell said his son dated a couple of women, and those women were older than him. He added that he worries that his son may have gotten involved with methamphetamine, and that he was hanging out with drug users who frequented the area of the Chehalis Western Trail in Tenino.
Hamilton confirmed Monday that the area of the Chehalis Western Trail in Tenino had been frequented by a criminal element.
Howell said the family lived on Whidbey Island for a time before moving to the Port Townsend area. He said he hoped for the best outcome for his son, but conceded that it didn’t look good.
“When you’re caught driving a truck with a body in the back, in a sleeping bag, that’s pretty incriminating to me,” he said.
According to court papers, after Howell was arrested he changed his story during a second interview with Hamilton. During the second interview, Howell still maintained he had nothing to do with the woman’s death. However, Howell admitted that after discovering the body, he “became sexually aroused” and had sex with the dead woman.
Grays Harbor County Undersheriff Rick Scott, who is in charge of another unsolved local disappearance, that of 11-year-old Lindsey Baum on June 26, 2009, was reached by cell phone out of state on Monday afternoon. Scott said he had not heard of Sunday night’s homicide in Tenino and he had no reason to think that it might be connected to Lindsey’s disappearance in McCleary.
Jeremy Pawloski: 360-754-5465 [email protected]
Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2010/08/10/1331258/body-leads-to-arrest.html#ixzz0wDj5JVmv
