Florida intercourse offender’s physique discovered stuffed in a suitcase and now a teen has been charged with homicide | EUROtoday

A 19-year-old Florida man has been arrested after authorities say he killed, dismembered, and stuffed the physique of a registered intercourse offender in a suitcase and left it in a distant space of Palm Bay.

Lucas Sander Jones, of Indialantic, is charged with the homicide of 28-year-old Colie Lee Daniel, who was reported lacking on March 22, in line with an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox13.

Daniel’s stays have been found contained in the suitcase that was deserted in an undeveloped 2,784-acre space recognized regionally as “The Compound.”

Authorities have been initially drawn to the realm on March 28 after reviews of vultures circling overhead. Officers noticed {a partially} open suitcase and detected a robust odor earlier than discovering the stays inside.

A second suitcase discovered close by additionally contained stays, together with private belongings and an Amazon package deal addressed to Jones. Jones was arrested that very same day.

An investigation revealed that surveillance footage captured Daniel arriving at Jones’ residence round 5:32 p.m. on March 20. Daniel, who lived a couple of mile away, was by no means seen leaving Jones’ home.

Later that night, Daniel’s dad and mom arrived on the residence looking for him. Jones answered the door however refused to allow them to in.

When officers from the Indialantic Police Department carried out a welfare examine, Daniel was nowhere to be discovered. Investigators famous Jones appeared matted, with pink markings on his arms and chest, puffiness underneath his eyes, and visual bruising on his shoulder and neck, in line with the arrest affidavit.

According to the affidavit, Jones’ girlfriend informed investigators that on March 20, after talking with him by cellphone, she “sensed something was wrong” and went to his residence at his request, bringing cleansing provides.

Jones’ girlfriend additionally informed investigators that when she arrived, she was instructed “just to go in and not say anything,” the affidavit mentioned. She described seeing black spray paint on the partitions and blood on the ground.

Shortly after police left, Jones was seen loading his girlfriend’s automotive with two massive storage totes and not less than one black suitcase. Surveillance footage confirmed the identical automotive leaving the house round 2:29 a.m. on March 21. The car was later tracked making two journeys to and from The Compound, authorities mentioned.

Detectives later decided Jones, who doesn’t personal a automotive, had left throughout the evening to eliminate an proof bag with unknown contents alongside close by practice tracks, leaving his girlfriend asleep inside.

During a visit to The Compound, Jones, who reportedly had Daniel’s cellphone, allegedly instructed his girlfriend to show off its location.

Jones reportedly confessed to her, saying, “I killed somebody and cut him up,” earlier than explaining he positioned the stays into two suitcases and two storage totes. She informed police Jones mentioned he killed Daniel with a baseball bat and dismembered the physique utilizing a cleaver, noticed, and knife.

He reportedly admitted to her that he killed Daniel as a result of Daniel was a intercourse offender. She informed investigators she didn’t understand how the 2 met, however mentioned Jones had printed a listing of intercourse offenders.

Per week after the killing, she mentioned Jones coached her on what to inform regulation enforcement.

On March 31, a medical expert confirmed the stays discovered within the suitcase belonged to Daniel.

His dying was dominated a murder. However, the precise trigger stays undetermined because of the incomplete restoration of his physique. Investigators famous he suffered a number of blunt pressure accidents to the top and extremities previous to dying.

Jones was taken into custody and now faces a number of prices, together with tampering with proof, abuse of a useless physique, transporting human stays in an unauthorized container, and homicide, harmful and wicked with out premeditation.

He is at the moment being held on the Brevard County Jail on no bail.