Woman’s Head, Arms Found In Man’s Freezer, CPD Says
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Dismembered Body
NBC 4 has new details after authorities say a local woman's body is dismembered.
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UPDATE: The head and arms of a woman were found in a local man’s apartment freezer, CPD said.
CENTRAL OHIO—Authorities release new details after detectives said a local woman was murdered and her body was dismembered and strewn around an apartment complex.
NBC 4 reported with the BOTTOM LINE on where the case stands.
Robert Knight, 51, murdered 44-year-old Tracey Moore, CPD homicide detectives said.
He dismembered her body and scattered parts around a Southwest Side apartment complex, authorities said.
Moore was identified through fingerprints, according to CPD.
Detectives recovered about 98 percent of Moore’s body with the help of Ohio State University anthropologists.
“We can recover them with careful and systematic digging and mapping, which maximizes the evidence collection,” anthropologist Jules Angel said.
Detectives said Moore lived with Knight at the West Bay apartments on Bay Run Drive.
CPD said the head and arms of a woman were found in Knight’s apartment freezer.
Moore was dead for about four days before her body was dismembered, investigators said.
Investigators have ruled out a tip that more body parts could be in the Hoover Reservoir but said the remaining crime scene is the most complex detectives have dealt with in a long time.
CPD was continuing its investigation Friday and has not identified a motive for the homicide currently.
Knight was arraigned in a Franklin County common pleas courtroom Friday. A judge set his bond at $2 million.
He remained in the Franklin County jail.
Moore’s death was the city’s 39th homicide of 2009.
BACKSTORY
A maintenance worker at West Bay apartments on Bay Run Drive found what looked to be a human body part shortly before 10 p.m. Wednesday, CPD homicide Sgt. Dana Norman said.
When police arrived at the scene, additional body parts were found in various locations around the complex and its pond.
CPD’s dive teams searched the complex pond Thursday morning while investigators searched the surrounding area, including dumpsters and Knight’s apartment.
CPD took Knight into custody Thursday morning and charged him with homicide shortly after 6:15 a.m.
“It’s very disturbing. Yes, it is. We see a lot of homicide scenes and lots of ways people have died. It’s very disgusting,” Norman said.
CPD sent a police dive team to an area of Hoover Reservoir near Smoke Burr Drive in Westerville, saying that there could have been additional evidence at the reservoir or in the area. Police said the area had been cleared by 6 p.m.
CPD also searched an area at nearby Interstate 270 and Georgesville Road before 8 a.m. Thursday.
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I’d bet 99% of sex offenders are men.In theory my plan would eventually work!
Laura, your plan seems based on the idea that only men are sex offenders. That isn’t the case.
I have never understood rape or any other sexual assault. I know a huge part of it is mental. With the “doing away” with mental health care hospitals around the state, alot of these people who would have been sent to the Hilltop or any other mental hospital end up in jail where they 9 out of 10 times they are charged convicted do their time and back to the street. It is a cycle that needs a new wheel. I think CPD did a good job on this one. So far so good anyway. I hope this guy gets what he deserves. Maybe a cell mate who is amorous and forceful.
Prayers go out to the victim and family pretty sure had few conversations with her.Lived there at one time not only am I glad I moved as not to have to see this nor my kids. But this place may look descent on the outside but it’s a cockroach infested DUMP Amazing the maintenance man even found let alone was there that late at night.Could been some kid that’s a blessing.FALSE ADVERTISING IN THE BIGGEST WAY!!GET OUT ASAP!!HE WASN’T AND ISN’T THE ONLY SICKO ,DRUG ADDICT THERE.IN FACT THERE’S AN ASIAN KID SALES DRUGS ALL OVER DAMN WEST BAY!!! SLUM SLUM SLUM!!PEDOPHILES…SEX OFFENDERS YOU NAME IT WEST BAY HAS THEM.If people bred as fast as the roaches this is not the place you’d want to be in the day or night!!!
I most certainly feel u.
I still say casteration and life…...we can call it the Laura Law!! :0)
I agree with unrepentant that the parole board holds some responsibilty for letting this beast out after serving a fraction of his previous sentences.
Also,they should bear responsibility for letting sex offenders out since everyone knows they can never be cured and they will offend again.
They will likely still be mental,but that nasty testosterone problem(lots of anger is based on that as fuel)will be cured forever! Just for the record,I love my husband,my dad,my son etc,so it’s not “man” hatred on my part,it’s outRAGE at the lifelong devastation that these beasts inflict on their victims.I’d “cure” them myself if allowed to do so legally!
Oooo, I like that idea Laura, but I am scared that they may retaliate and take the anger out on the children. I say casteration and life.
I f we decided to castrate sex offenders,then never again could they offend.Why can the state put someone to death,but not"cure"these perpetrators of their affliction?
Make em an offer-first sex offense-life in prison or castration.They say they cannot control their thoughts/what turns them on-well I say there is a cure to ever having a sexual thought again.
RayofSun I think most women are scared. The laws can only do so much to protect them. I can only imagine what this woman was put through seeing that he was capable of this.
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