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Tennessee man who murdered, dismembered and dissolved parents bodies in chemicals is sentenced to life – Joel Guy Jr, 32, killed his parents when he discovered they would no longer support him

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4c3e3f"><strong>Knox County jury on Oct&period; 2&comma; found Joel Guy Jr&period;&comma; 32&comma;&nbsp&semi;guilty of fatally stabbing his parents and dismembering their bodies after he learned they would no longer support him financially <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4c3e3f">After three hours of deliberation <strong>jury about three convicted 32-year-old Joel Guy Jr&period; in the deaths of his parents Joel Guy Sr&period;&comma; 61&comma; and Lisa Guy&comma; 55&comma; <strong>over the 2016 Thanksgiving<&sol;strong><&sol;strong> week <&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4c3e3f"><strong>Motive prosecutors said diabolical act was fueled by his attempt to seize life insurance benefits<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4c3e3f"><strong>The &&num;8216&semi;Killer son&&num;8217&semi;&nbsp&semi;took money from his parents’ bank accounts for his rent and tuition after stabbing them dozens of times in their Hardin Valley home&comma; chopping them up and trying to chemically dissolve the pieces<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4c3e3f"><strong>He unsuccessfully attempted to slough off the victims&&num;8217&semi; skin and dissolve their bodies to cover up the murders &&num;8211&semi; Cops found couple’s severed torsos and limbs were stuffed into plastic storage containers filled with various chemicals<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4c3e3f"><strong>Judge Steve Sword imposed an automatic life sentence&nbsp&semi;after he was convicted <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;4c3e3f"><strong>Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in the case<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i2&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;09&sol;Joel-Guy-Jr-4&period;jpg&quest;resize&equals;604&percnt;2C429&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;""&sol;><figcaption>Joel Guy Jr showed no emotion as the verdict was read in court finding him guilty in the murder of his parents in an attempt to seize life insurance benefits<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A jury sitting in Knoxville&comma; Tennessee Friday&comma; Oct 2&comma; convicted Joel Guy Jr&period;&comma; in the murder of his parents over the 2016 Thanksgiving holiday before chopping up their bodies&period; He then tried to chemically dissolve the pieces&period;<br>According to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;knoxnews&period;com&sol;story&sol;news&sol;crime&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;02&sol;joel-guy-jr-convicted-killing-and-dismembering-parents&sol;5879895002&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;knewz">The Knoxville News Sentinel<&sol;a>&comma; it took the jury about three hours of deliberation to convict the 32-year-old former medical student in the deaths of his parents Joel Guy Sr&period;&comma; 61&comma; and Lisa Guy&comma; 55&comma; four years ago&period;<br><strong>Related Articles&colon;<&sol;strong> <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2020&sol;09&sol;30&sol;flush-chunks-down-toilet-not-garbage-disposal-and-blast-heat-to-melt-off-fingerprints-joel-guy-jr-31-accused-of-dismembering-his-parents-and-boiling-his-mothers-head-in-a-pot-is-exposed&sol;"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;09&sol;Joel-Guy-Jr-killed-and-dismembered-his-parents-2&period;jpg&quest;resize&equals;174&percnt;2C131&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;""&sol;><&sol;a><figcaption><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2020&sol;09&sol;30&sol;flush-chunks-down-toilet-not-garbage-disposal-and-blast-heat-to-melt-off-fingerprints-joel-guy-jr-31-accused-of-dismembering-his-parents-and-boiling-his-mothers-head-in-a-pot-is-exposed&sol;">Self-authored murder how-to reveals chillingly murder plot concocted by son accused of killing and attempting to dispose of his parents bodies WARNING&colon; Graphic Contents Joel&nbsp&semi;&lbrack;&&num;8230&semi;&rsqb;<&sol;a><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The Knox County jury were swayed by the prosecution&&num;8217&semi;s argument that Joel Guy Jr&period; fatally stabbed his parents and dismembered their bodies after he learned they would no longer foot his bills&period;<br>After the defendant was convicted on multiple counts&comma; including two counts of first-degree murder&comma; Judge Steve Sword imposed an automatic life sentence&period; Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty in the case&period; <br>A separate hearing is scheduled for November to determine if those life terms should be served consecutively&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<iframe width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;5WdMv9egrdU" frameborder&equals;"0" allow&equals;"accelerometer&semi; autoplay&semi; clipboard-write&semi; encrypted-media&semi; gyroscope&semi; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen&equals;""><&sol;iframe>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Joel Guy Jr sits stoically through victim impact statements from his relatives before he is convicted in the brutal murder of his parents<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The verdict was not unexpected&comma; as prosecutors presented volumes of evidence pointing to the fact that Joel Guy Jr&period; murdered his parents because they had decided they would no longer foot his bills&comma; on the eve of their retirement&period;<br>The medical student never had a job and had been taking college courses for a decade at Louisiana State University&period; The murders were part of a plot to cash in on &dollar;500&comma;000 in life insurance benefits&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;apnews&period;com&sol;article&sol;tennessee-knoxville-archive-crime-9c72fa30ecff9bf60020e84a14f8271f&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;knewz">prosecutors said<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-image"><figure class&equals;"alignleft is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i1&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;12&sol;joel-michael-guy-jr2&period;png&quest;resize&equals;311&percnt;2C438&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;"joel-michael-guy-jr2" width&equals;"305" height&equals;"430"&sol;><figcaption>Joel Guy Jr&period; was a 28-year-old medical&nbsp&semi;student at the time he murdered his parents in 2016<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Jurors also heard the gruesome details about the killings prior to voting to convict&period;<br>The evidence presented by the prosecution showed that Guy Jr&period; attacked his dad after his mother left to go shopping&period;<br>He waited on her to return and then attacked Lisa Guy as she arrived home&period; <br>After the murders&comma; the killer drained what money he could from his parents bank accounts to cover his rent and tuition&period;<br>He then planned to wait to collect life insurance benefits&period;<br>Joel Guy Jr&period; had chopped up his parents corpses for easier disposal after killing them&period; Responding officers found Lisa Guy’s severed head jammed in a boiling pot on the stovetop&period;<br>The couple’s severed torsos and limbs were stuffed into plastic storage containers filled with various chemicals&period; <br>The killer unsuccessfully attempted to slough off their skin and dissolve their bodies to cover up the murders&comma; the prosecution said&period;<br>He was found to have taken money from his parents’ bank accounts for his rent and tuition after the horrific crime&period;<br>Prosecutor Leslie Nassos previously painted the image of the horrific crime scene for the jurors&period;<br>Joel Guy Jr&period; created a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;diabolical stew of human remains&comma;” Nassos said&period;<br>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The killer put Lisa’s body parts in one&comma; and Joel Sr’s in another&comma; and then he covered them with a corrosive substance&comma; and left them there to liquefy into some sort of diabolical stew of human remains&comma;” Nassos told the panel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;10&sol;Lisa-Guy-and-Joel-Guy-Sr-3&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-356199" width&equals;"625" height&equals;"915"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Joel Michael Guy Sr&period;&comma; 61&comma; and his wife Lisa Guy&comma; 55&comma;&nbsp&semi;were sold their home and set to retire to another part of Tennessee before they were murdered by their son&nbsp&semi;<strong>Joel Guy Jr&period; in 2016&period; He&&num;8217&semi;d just found out they were about to stop supporting him<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i1&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;09&sol;Lisa-Guys-head-was-bolied-in-this-pot-1&period;jpg&quest;w&equals;620&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;"This image has an empty alt attribute&semi; its file name is Lisa-Guys-head-was-bolied-in-this-pot-1&period;jpg"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Police got to the Guy residence to find a stockpot containing Lisa Guy’s severed head boiling on the stove in the kitchen <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He got out a stockpot&comma; placed her head in the pot&comma; filled it with liquid&comma; carried it over to the stove&comma; covered it&comma; turned on the stove&comma; and left it there to cook&comma;” prosecutor Nassos said describing how Joel Guy Jr&period; cut off his mother’s head and left it to cook in its own grisly stew&period;<br>In his testimony Knox County Sheriff’s Office detective&comma; Jeremy McCord&comma; also described the carnage he found inside the Guys’ home as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the most horrific thing I’ve ever encountered in police work – in my life&period;”<br>Before the verdict and sentencing&comma; his relatives appeared in court to deliver victim impact statements about the deaths of Lisa Guy and Joel Guy Sr&period;<br>The stoic defendant appeared to show no visible reaction to the statements from his heartbroken family member&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;lawandcrime&period;com&sol;live-trials&sol;live-trials-current&sol;joel-guy-jr&sol;chilling-murderer-joel-guy-jr-had-no-visible-reaction-as-family-delivered-heartwrenching-impact-statements&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;knewz">Law and Crime<&sol;a> reported&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i2&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;12&sol;joel-michael-guy-sr-and-lisa-guy-wered-murdered-in-their-knxville-tennessee-home2&period;jpg&quest;resize&equals;620&percnt;2C465&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;"Joel Michael Guy Sr&period;and Lisa Guy wered murdered in their Knxville Tennessee home2&period;jpg"&sol;><figcaption><strong>The arrest warrant states that Joel Guy Jr&period;&nbsp&semi;accused of murdering his parents while visiting with them over the Thanksgiving&comma;&nbsp&semi;at their Hardin Valley home<&sol;strong> <strong>in Knoxville&comma; Tennessee <&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">The killer&&num;8217&semi;s uncle&nbsp&semi;Alvin Madere Jr&period;&nbsp&semi;told the court that Joel Guy Jr’s grandmother was hospitalized after the brutal 2016 murders of his sister and brother-in-law&comma; and never recovered&period; She was hospitalized the day after the murders&comma; and remained there until she died the day after Lisa Guy’s funeral in 2016<br>The Guys were a blended family&period; Guy Sr&period; had daughters from a previous relationship&comma; while the defendant was the only child of both victims with- Lisa described as a loving mother to them all during the trial&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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