Tennessee man murdered woman, dismembered and ate her body - cops

Lisa Marie Hyder (left) and Gregory Scott Hale (right)

A Tennessee man murdered a woman at this residence, dismembered her body and then proceeded to eat part of her corpse. Coffee County District Attorney Mickey Layne told The Associated Press on Tuesday that 37-year-old Gregory S. Hale was arrested at his home late Sunday and is charged with premeditated first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse.

A neighbor alerted police after he had a conversation with Hale which gave him reason to believe a homicide had been committed. According to the arrest warrant, the victim was beheaded and the rest of her body was dismembered. The warrant states that Hale buried the torso of the victim’s body in a burn pile at the residence. According to the warrant Hale confessed to killing the woman identified as Lisa Marie Hyder. Hale told authorities he beheaded Hyder and cut off her hands and feet and placed the body parts in plastic buckets and then buried the torso in a burn pile at the residence.

He also admitted to cannibalizing part of the victim. Her body was sent to Nashville for an autopsy, according to WGNS. 

When officers arrived at the home, Layne said they discovered human  remains on the grounds. They then questioned Hale and took him into custody.

In disturbing social media posts, Hale had joked about cannibalism and praised serial killer Richard Ramirez, the Night Stalker.

"If someone were to become a cannibal and eat a vegetarian, would the vegetarian taste like that fake soy meat?" Hale wrote on Facebook, according to WSMV.

In a tribute to Ramirez back in February, Hale wrote that he wished he could have met the infamous serial killer and rapist, who died in 2013, Huff Post reports.

WSMV also learned that Hale once worked at a meat processing plant, and that "sources who knew him say Hale would take home bones, blood and eyeballs of animals from the plant." According to the station, neighbors called Hale "sick" and a "devil worshipper."

Layne says Hale has an attorney and is being held in jail on $1.5 million bond.

Gregory S. Hale 

Culled from US Today