BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Michigan man with killing and dismembering a janitor he met on the courting app Grindr.
Justie Stilwell, a 41-year-old janitor at T.L. Useful Center College in Bay Metropolis, was reported lacking on Sept. 18. A teen noticed a foot within the Saginaw River that very same day. Police subsequently discovered Stilwell’s arms and decrease legs within the water.
In accordance with court docket paperwork obtained by MLive.com, detectives obtained surveillance footage from Stilwell’s neighbors that confirmed Stilwell driving away from his residence in Bay Metropolis on the night of Sept. 14. Investigators used information from Grindr to find out that Stilwell had gone to satisfy a Grindr consumer with the deal with “Bored.”
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They tracked Bored’s location to 40-year-old Robert Tweedly’s residence in Bay Metropolis. Tweedly informed investigators that Stilwell got here to his residence and he shoved Stilwell down his basement stairs after Stilwell needed to depart, in line with the paperwork. He then strangled Stilwell to dying, he informed investigators, in line with the paperwork.
The physique was too heavy to maneuver upstairs so he lower it aside, he informed investigators. He dumped the legs and arms within the river and put the pinnacle and torso in a nature protect. Police recovered these physique elements there, in line with the court docket paperwork.
Tweedly was arraigned Sept. 27 on prices of homicide and mutilating a physique. His lawyer, James Piazza, informed MLive.com that he had met with Tweedly however was nonetheless ready for prosecutors to share proof and had no touch upon the case.
