Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Brisbane Butchers Behead Boy, Bowl & Bury

The nephew of the only woman serving a life sentence in Australia will now be joining his aunt for his role in the gruesome murder of a 17-year-old boy. James Patrick Roughan (the nephew of convicted killer Katherine Knight) and his friend Christopher Clark Jones were found guilty last week of stabbing a Brisbane teenager 133 times and using his decapitated head as a bowling ball and a puppet.

In 2000, Katherine Knight, a former slaughterhouse worker, stabbed her common-law husband then skinned his body, cooked his flesh with vegetables and made a soup out of his head.

Roughan and Jones' victim, Morgan Jay Shepard, had been drinking with his killers in a Brisbane youth hostel when a fight broke out. The fight ended with Shepherd being stabbed 133 times and decapitated.

Roughan and Jones had sought to blame each other for Shepherd's death. Police found a tomahawk, knife, handsaw and pruning saw stained with the victim's blood in Roughan's shed, as well as blood-stained clothing containing Jones's DNA.

During and after the killing, Shepherd's head was used as a bowling ball and a hand puppet before it was buried in a shallow grave at Dayboro, northwest of Brisbane.

Read more details here.

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