Teens charged with blowtorching corpse Mich. thrill-seekers accused of stabbing acquaintance, decapitating him
DETROIT - Two thrill-seeking teenagers stabbed an adult acquaintance, took a blowtorch to his corpse and threw his severed head into a river, prosecutors said Monday as they charged the pair.
Canton High School senior Jean Pierre Orlewicz, 17, and Alexander James Letkemann, 18, ambushed 26-year-old Daniel Sorenson last Wednesday in a garage owned by Orlewicz's grandfather, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said. A tarp had been spread on the floor, she said.
"They lured him in the garage where they prepared a space to kill him," Worthy said at a news conference.
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Sorenson, who had worked as a bouncer, was stabbed multiple times in the back, his head was sawed off and his body was wrapped in the tarp, authorities said. Orlewicz and Letkemann burned his hands and feet with a blowtorch, possibly in an effort to conceal his identity, Worthy said.
"They made plans on how they were to clean up the blood," Worthy said. "They made plans on how they were going to dispose of the body."
The teens loaded Sorenson's torso in a pickup truck, dumped it in a cul-de-sac and set it on fire using gasoline. A utility crew found it Thursday morning, police said.
Sorenson's head was found Saturday in the Rouge River.
Victim's history appears unrelated to killing
Sorenson's history as a registered sex offender in Michigan and Illinois and the fact that he may have owed his attackers a small amount of money appear to have had nothing to do with his death, Worthy said.
"We've all seen a lot. We've seen it all," Worthy said of the case's investigators. "Still, a crime like this surprises us all.
"Anytime anyone kills just because they want to, and that's what the evidence seems to suggest here, is bone-chilling. Why anyone would want to do that, especially being 17 years old, it makes us think and ask a lot of questions about our society."
Worthy did not immediately respond to a message seeking more information, including whether the defendants had lawyers.
Orlewicz, of Plymouth, and Letkemann, of Westland, were arraigned Monday in a Romulus courtroom on one count each of first-degree premeditated murder, felony murder and mutilation of a corpse. The murder charges carry mandatory sentences of life in prison. Mutilating a corpse carries a maximum sentence of 10 years.
The investigation is continuing and other people may have been involved, Worthy said.
Seriously, that's just horrible :(
leph555
they should take a shot to the head, no questions asked...
Aristronica
these two deserve to be shot based alone on the fact that they thought they could conceal one's identity by sawing the head off and blowtorching the extremities.
Frenchie
They obviously don't watch enough TV.
Boomer187
ahhhh, michigan :D fun state with nothing to do.
this reminds me of that movie where 2 kids try to plan the perfect murder and get away with it. I wonder if they thought they could off someone and get away with it....if so they suck at teh murder.
Frenchie
Murder By Numbers?
Aristronica
Sleepers was a good movie too, kinda like that. except those dudes had every right to murder the bastards.
netroM
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Originally posted by Frenchie
Murdered By Numbers?
Aye. With Sandra Bullock
Frenchie
quote:
Originally posted by netroM
Aye. With Sandra Bullock
but yea burning body in cul de sac is bound to be found with evidence.
Gen3r4l1ty
Sad. Sad. Sad... Couldn't they just have satisfied their bloodlust by blowing up a frog with an M-80 like a normal kid!? (Well... as normal as kids who blow up animals can be.)
