Carina Sander Died a Twisted Death

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The sickening details of a teenage girl's tortured death have been revealed in the autopsy report.

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Carina Saunders' dismembered body was found stuffed in a duffel bag and dumped behind a grocery store in Bethany, Oklahoma, on October 13 last year.

The report, released on Wednesday, said the 19-year-old had a 'violent death' with someone trying to cut out a tattoo on her upper back so her body could not be identified.

She was decapitated and her hands and feet were missing - although it was unclear whether her body parts were sawn off before she had died.

The medical examiner had withheld details of the 19-year-old's death so that police could build a murder case.

It was believed she was killed by a human and drug trafficking gang to intimidate female witnesses so they would cooperate with the gang's demands.

Jimmy Massey, 34, and Luis Ruiz, 37, were charged with the first-degree murder of the young woman from Mustang on July 23.

The two men were being held in the Oklahoma County Jail without bail.

Ruiz is a former elementary school teacher, according to his family, who later became deeply involved in the drug trade.

The autopsy report revealed that Miss Saunders' decomposing body had to be identified by dental records. Her tattoo, which read 'Kween Spade', could also be made out on her back.

A witness told police last month that one of the men charged with Miss Saunder's murder beat her, tied her to a table and tortured her by sawing off her left foot.

The suspect then tried to cut off the 19-year-old's right foot before the saw broke, it was claimed.

According to a probable cause affidavit filed in Oklahoma County District Court, Ruiz planned and carried out the torture killing.

In the affidavit, a woman named Michelle Hanshaw told police she went to a house in the city with Saunders and witnessed Ruiz 'physically beat Carina Saunders and then tie her up'.

Ruiz then dragged Saunders to an upstairs room and tied her to a small table with rope and twine before using the saw on her feet, Hanshaw told Bethany police investigators.

Hanshaw 'jumped out a window to escape' after witnessing the killing.

Stephanie Howard, Ruiz's girlfriend in October 2011, told investigators that on two occasions she and Ruiz had to 'babysit' a girl Howard later learned was Carina Saunders, police reported.

Ruiz said Saunders was going to be 'dealt with', Howard told investigators.

The relationship between Saunders and the two men who are believed to have murdered her, has not been revealed.

Another woman was at the house with Saunders and Hanshaw, but left soon after, police reported.

Tia Downour said she had been told there was a video of the homicide on the phone, and the phone belonged to Ruiz.

Downour told investigators she shared a room at the Bel-Aire Hotel with Ruiz in May, and when he went to the bathroom, she viewed the video, police reported.

'Downour said she watched for a few seconds until Saunders began to scream,' Bethany police Lt. JR Jencks wrote in the affidavit, adding that she told investigators she recognized Ruiz 'as the person in the video cutting off the foot of Saunders'.

Another person interviewed by detectives said Ruiz told him he 'had been the one that planned the entire incident which resulted in the death of Carina Saunders'.

Massey, while jailed on drug charges, shared details of the murder with two inmates, according to a probable cause affidavit filed with his murder charge.

He told one that he participated in the homicide and they 'they cut the girl's arms and legs off'.

The second inmate told police Massey 'gave handwritten statements in the form of passed notes' describing what parts of the woman's body were dismembered and how the body was wrapped before disposal.

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Another life taken horribly.
The autopsy report was interesting reading.
Probable Cause of Death: VIOLENT DEATH
Yep that’s what I’d think too!

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Terrified woman 'forced to watch as human trafficking gang tortured, dismembered and beheaded teenage girl in front of her'
A teenager was tortured and cut up in front of another woman so she would be frightened into cooperating with a human trafficking ring, police said.

Jimmy Lee Massey, 33, was arrested over the first-degree murder of Carina Saunders, 19, whose dismembered body was found stuffed in a duffel bag. The young woman had been beheaded and dumped on October 13 behind a grocery store.

A 20-year-old woman came forward as a witness to say she had been kidnapped by Massey and forced to watch Miss Saunders painful death in Bethany, Oklahoma. Her identity has not been released because of concerns for her safety.

Miss Saunders was known to use drugs but not thought to be involved in criminal activity. The choice of her was 'random', according to police.

Massey was already being held in the Oklahoma County jail on drug charges and he remains held without bond. Court documents do not list an attorney for him, Police Chief Phil Cole said.

A second man, 31-year-old Francisco Gomez was also arrested in connection with Miss Saunders' murder along with charges of drug trafficking and failure to pay child support.

As he was lead into the police station in handcuffs last night, he told reporters: 'I've got nothing to with no drugs, no murder, no nothing.'

Deputy U.S. Marshall Callen Stephens told News 9: 'Bethany PD announced that Francisco Gomez was a person of interest in the Bethany homicide.

'We surrounded a possible address for Mr Gomez and he surrendered peacefully. He was booked on a trafficking charge.'

Massey has told investigators he kidnapped the 20-year-old woman and forced her to watch others kill Saunders. He also provided details of Saunders' torture, killing and dismemberment and disposal of the body.
Chief Cole said there was no evidence the witness knew Miss Saunders but both women knew Massey separately.

Police said the kidnapping and brutal killing were meant to send a message that the witness and her friends faced the same fate unless they cooperated with a human trafficking and drug ring.

The police chief said: 'Evidence in our investigation has led us to believe that she had been expected to provide certain things to this trafficking group and that she had not been performing to their satisfaction.

'We believe there were other people there and they're now the focus of our investigation.'

Oklahoma County Assistant District Attorney Scott Rowland said a decision on charges would be made in January.

Rowland declined to discuss whether the drug charges that Massey was being held on were related to the killing.

'We're at a delicate point in the case and I want to be really careful about what I say,' he told a news conference.

Chief Cole said there was no evidence that Miss Saunders was involved in criminal activity.

He said: 'Our information right now leads us to believe she was a random choice, as sad as that is.

'She had relationships within these loosely associated people, and I think that she was a victim of opportunity.'

He said investigators met with the young woman's family at the weekend.

He added: 'They are encouraged by this. They're hoping this is just one of many more that will be held to answer for their daughter's murder.'

Miss Saunders, who graduated from Mustang High School last year, was known to use methamphetamine, marijuana and Ecstasy.

Police have been unable to determine whether she had a job or where she was living at the time of her death.

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check this part out.....

Two men charged in Carina Saunders killing; affidavit details torture

One of the men charged Monday in the killing of Carina Saunders beat her, tied her to a table and tortured her by sawing off her left foot and then trying to cut off her right foot before the saw broke, an affidavit shows a witness told police.

The Oklahoma County district attorney's office filed first-degree murder charges against Luis Enrique Ruiz and Jimmy Lee Massey Jr. in the killing of Saunders, the 19-year-old Mustang woman whose dismembered body was found in a duffel bag in Bethany in October 2011.
Ruiz, 37, and Massey, 33, of Oklahoma City, previously had been identified as suspects in the case and have been in custody in the Oklahoma County jail.
Ruiz planned and carried out the torture killing, according to a probable cause affidavit filed with his charges Monday in Oklahoma County District Court.
In the affidavit, a woman named Michelle Hanshaw told police she went to a house on S Harvey Avenue in Oklahoma City with Saunders and witnessed Ruiz “physically beat Carina Saunders and then tie her up.”
Ruiz then dragged Saunders to an upstairs room and tied her to a small table with rope and twine before using the saw on her feet, Hanshaw told Bethany police investigators.
Hanshaw, according to the probable cause affidavit filed with the murder charge against Massey, “jumped out a window to escape” after witnessing the killing.
Stephanie Howard, Ruiz's girlfriend in October 2011, told investigators that on two occasions she and Ruiz had to “baby-sit” a girl Howard later learned was Carina Saunders, police reported.
Ruiz said Saunders was going to be “dealt with,” Howard told investigators.
Another woman was at the house on S Harvey Avenue with Saunders and Hanshaw, but left soon after, police reported. Tia Downour said she had been told there was a video of the homicide on the phone, and the phone belonged to Ruiz, the affidavit shows.
Downour told investigators she shared a room at the Bel-Aire Hotel with Ruiz in May, and when he went to the bathroom, she viewed the video, police reported.
“Downour said she watched for a few seconds until Saunders began to scream,” Bethany police Lt. JR Jencks wrote in the affidavit.
Downour told investigators she recognized Luis Ruiz “as the person in the video cutting off the foot of Saunders,” the lieutenant wrote.
Another person interviewed by detectives said Ruiz told him he “had been the one that planned the entire incident which resulted in the death of Carina Saunders,” according to the affidavit.
Ruiz was arrested July 5 on a murder complaint. He and Massey are being held without bail in the Oklahoma County jail.
Neither District Attorney David Prater nor Bethany Police Chief Phil Cole would comment Monday on charges being filed in the case.
Massey, while jailed on drug charges, shared details of the slaying with two detainees, according to a probable cause affidavit filed with his murder charge.
He told the first detainee that he participated in the homicide and said “they cut the girl's arms and legs off,” the lieutenant wrote in the affidavit.
The second detainee told police Massey “gave handwritten statements in the form of passed notes” describing what parts of the woman's body were dismembered and “perhaps more importantly,” how the body was wrapped before disposal,” the lieutenant wrote.
“Those same notes have been compared to known samples of Jimmy Massey's hand writing and appear to be from the same person on initial examination,” Jencks wrote.
Downour, who told investigators she left the residence on S Harvey shortly after Saunders and Hanshaw arrived, said Massey, who she also knew as “Country,” was there when she left, according to Massey's affidavit.
A confidential witness told police she was kidnapped and forced to watch as members of a human trafficking ring tortured and killed Saunders to send a message to others to cooperate with their illegal activities.
Neither prosecutors nor police would comment on that aspect of the killing.
According to court records, Massey admitted to kidnapping a woman and making her watch as Saunders was tortured and killed Oct. 9. Massey also described how Saunders' body was dismembered and left in a field behind the Homeland grocery store at NW 23 and Rockwell Avenue.

[Sterlig]

This is an awesome read. I wish we had the files like this for some of the more notorious killings, like the black dahlia. I enjoy reading this stuff not because I'm a sick fuck, but that the MD in charge of the post-mortem examination is able to factually unravel the mystery surrounding the death of the individual.

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There are some truly frightening people out there.

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Originally Posted by Oswald2001

There are some truly frightening people out there.

sorta makes me glad "Im In Here!"

[Kerri]

My. God.

[mrnotright]

Can't believe there was no mention of sexual assault, especially as hot as she was. What a shame. What a waste!

[SpicyWeiner]

At least she shaved her tuna can. Nice.