John Dickinson is accused of murdering his roommate
A Pennsylvania man is facing life in prison for chopping off his roommate’s head for making a sexual advance.
John Dickinson, 42, was charged with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse among others.
He is accused of killing Kevin Thompson, 46.
Kevin Thompson (below) found with his head chopped off
Police was informed by Thompson’s mom who said he had gone missing. She asked them to go to the home on Parkfield Street in Carrick.
In the home, police found dried blood all over the kitchen and on the walls leading up to Thompson’s bedroom.
Investigators smelled a strong odor coming from a backyard shed. Police noticed flies landing on a bag of dog food inside.
Inside the bag, investigators found a garbage bag. And in that, they found what they believed to be blood and human remains.
Police discovered a human torso wrapped in two trash bags in the basement. And back into the shed, they found several plastic bags containing various limbs and a severed head.
The medical examiner has confirmed the victim was Thompson.
He died from blunt force trauma and multiple stab wounds to the chest. Officials believe the murder happened sometime between 27 May and 29 May.
Did the killer admit to witnesses ‘I did that’?
Witnesses came forward and told police they were with Dickinson watching television and they saw a news report about a dismembered body being discovered in Carrick.
They said he said to them ‘I did that’.
They said the two men got into a fight after Thompson made a ‘sexual advance’ towards him. The witness also told police he found a notebook belonging to Dickinson, inside stating: ‘This is John Dickinson. I am responsible for the death of Kevin Thompson. I had no help whatsoever.’
Richard Brazell, the half-brother of the accused killer and beheader, said Dickinson spent his childhood in a foster home.
He told KDKA-TV there was no sign he was ‘unhinged’.
‘I mean, he’s not… to us, we don’t know him as a murderer. He’s our brother,’ Brazell said. ‘I don’t know [what happened]. I just know we lost our older brother, Chuck, a few months ago, to a heroin overdose. That was his closest person. Losing him may have triggered something that sparked this violent outburst. I just hopes everything works out for all the parties involved.’
Dickinson has spent time in prison and described him as a having a ‘violent streak’.
‘I’m terribly sorry for their loss, it’s very tragic,’ he said, in a message to Thompson’s loved ones. ‘I pray they can get justice. I pray they have justice, I really do.’
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