Just dismembered someone and you want to make some fast cash from the bloody, flesh clogged weapon? Take it to a pawnshop in Phoenix.

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

Thomas Wallace, accused of 1st degree murder


" The body of a man who hadn’t been seen or heard from for about a month was found chopped up in his Phoenix home, and police said they caught the man who did it. Thomas Wallace was roommates with the unidentified man and is now facing multiple felonies in connection to his death."

" The man hadn’t talked to his family, and police tried to see if he was OK at his home near 30th and Campbell avenues, which is north of Indian School, for a couple of weeks. Neighbors said they had previously seen homeless people often at his home. Another two weeks went by, and no word from the man. So police went to his house and, with the help of firefighters, forced their way into the home. Officers said it smelled really bad. So they searched the home and found two black trash bags inside the bedroom, which had different parts of the victim, investigators said.

Homicide investigators arrived the next day and found blood on the living room ceiling, on several walls and furniture. It appeared somebody had tried to clean up the blood on the floor. Police say detectives searched a pile of linens and discovered a human head attached to his upper body that was cut off, which belonged to the victim.

According to police, Wallace and Gonzalez pawned some of the man’s items last week. They included a camera bag with a camera and a 10-inch chainsaw hedger with a pole attachment. They received $50. Detectives later learned the bag had a portfolio with the victim’s business card, court paperwork said. When investigators confiscated and processed the chainsaw, they could smell decomposition on it and saw pieces of flesh and torn ligaments on the blade, police said. "

The victim was an Air Force veteran in his 80′s.
[A neighbor] said he was the neighborhood handyman and was always helpful to everyone


Here's Ramona Gonzalez, the woman the victim let stay with him, she relapsed on drugs and brought Wallace into the home, subsequently, the victim asked them both to leave.
In a different article its stated that Gonzalez wanted to retrieve some of her belongings in the home, couldn't reach the victim, broke in with a friend, saw the remains of the victim in late December and apparently alerted no one. She was seen on the pawnshop video trying to sell an arrow for $ 200 (!) at the same time Wallace sold the chainsaw and other items belonging to the victim.

Dirtbags.

Man accused of killing his roommate, chopping up his body inside a Phoenix home

The victim hadn’t been seen or heard from for about a month until police found his body parts in different bags.

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[Alxprkrkrls]

Ugh that part about the chainsaw smelling like decomp made me sick did nobody at the pawn Shop catch that????!!!!

 

[Sejanus]

Ugh that part about the chainsaw smelling like decomp made me sick did nobody at the pawn Shop catch that????!!!!

I have only been in three actual pawn shops in my entire life and I got to be honest. Every single one of them smells like decomposition so honestly how would the shopkeeper be able to distinguish? It's just a level of hobo foul smelling air in those places.

I am pretty fascinated by the notion that they would go to the trouble of dicing up the corpse and putting it in garbage bags. Yet they didn't have the wherewithal to actually dispose of them. Also at first I thought about the blood on the ceiling is being arterial splatter until I read about the chainsaw. Careless and stupid corpse disposal

 

[Alxprkrkrls]

I have only been in three actual pawn shops in my entire life and I got to be honest. Every single one of them smells like decomposition so honestly how would the shopkeeper be able to distinguish? It's just a level of hobo foul smelling air in those places.

I am pretty fascinated by the notion that they would go to the trouble of dicing up the corpse and putting it in garbage bags. Yet they didn't have the wherewithal to actually dispose of them. Also at first I thought about the blood on the ceiling is being arterial splatter until I read about the chainsaw. Careless and stupid corpse disposal

Yeah but they said there was flesh and ligaments still in the blade, like, how do you miss that???

 

[thuumpr]

Yeah but they said there was flesh and ligaments still in the blade, like, how do you miss that???

Clerk probably never looked up from his cell phone.

 

[Leenoah]

Clerk probably never looked up from his cell phone.

That damned Chumlee!

 

[McDanel]

Pawn shops always smell of despair and broken dreams.