Post by Joanna on Nov 16, 2017 15:13:14 GMT -5
Man Poses with Dead Wife Before Dismembering Her Corpse
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A homeless man posed for photos with his dead wife, along with their newborn and toddler, before dismembering her body in a Missouri hotel room, according to court records released Wednesday. Justin Rey, 35, who was arrested last month after being found with the remains at a Kansas storage unit, was charged in Missouri Wednesday with abandonment of a corpse and child endangerment, FOX4 Kansas City reported.
Court records obtained by FOX4 say Rey told police his wife, Jessica Monteiro Rey, died after giving birth Oct. 20 in a Kansas City hotel and that he dismembered her body in a bathtub two days later – with the children present.
After his wife died, Rey said he placed her in the bed, and then took pictures with his wife and kids together, the records indicate. He then put some of her body parts in a large cooler and disposed of the remains that didn’t fit.
According to a search warrant, hotel management said Rey attempted to disguise his voice as a woman’s when he called the front desk to check out Oct. 23. The warrant says surveillance video footage shows him pulling a red cooler with a black bag on top through the hotel, while pushing a stroller with a toddler walking beside him.
The remains were discovered Oct. 24 inside a cooler and tote at a U-Haul Moving and Storage facility in nearby Lenexa, Kan. after Rey slept there with the children. Officials at the facility contacted police, who said Rey was acting suspiciously and talking about his wife’s dying while giving birth to their newborn. “The suspect spontaneously informed the officers his wife was inside the cooler and looked to the direction of a red and white Igloo style cooler with wheels,” according to the probable cause statement. Emergency responders checked on the children, who were later taken to a hospital. The affidavit says the baby wasn’t wearing adequate clothing and had an eye infection.
After Rey was arrested and placed in a police vehicle, he was asked about his wife’s whereabouts. He said she had died several days earlier and was in the cooler and one of the totes, which he had been trying to remove from the storage unit, the detective wrote.
Missouri and Kansas court records do not indicate how she died and Rey provided conflicting information. In one statement to police, Rey said his wife committed suicide after giving birth. In other statements he simply said that she died without giving a cause.
Rey’s attorney in the Kansas case, Courtney Henderson, has not returned a phone call from The Associated Press. Rey doesn’t yet have an attorney in the Missouri case.
During a court appearance earlier this month, Rey was removed after a screaming rant against authorities, in which he yelled that he was not mentally unstable, according to FOX4.
Source: The Associated Press and Fox News, November 16, 2017.
