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| woscar99 |
The Kingwood teenager's story of decapitating a corpse and using the head to smoke marijuana was so outlandish that at first Houston Police Department senior police officer Jim Adkins did not believe it.
Yet, Kevin Wade Jones Jr., 17, appeared almost indifferent as he relayed the bizarre description of his and two friends' activities at an Humble area graveyard, Adkins said.
"I just doubted it because it's very morbid, and I couldn't see anybody doing something like this," Adkins said Thursday.
Not until police went to the home of another Kingwood 17-year-old, Matthew Richard Gonzalez, did the officer believe the tale.
"He regurgitated in his plate of food when I asked him about it," Adkins said. "So I knew there was some truth to the story."
Now, Jones, Gonzalez and a juvenile whose name has not been released are each charged with abuse of a corpse, a misdemeanor. All three were arrested Wednesday night.
Police said a fourth suspect is wanted for questioning.
Houston police believe the teens disturbed the grave of an 11-year-old boy who died in 1921.
The child was buried at an unmarked cemetery believed to be reserved for black veterans and their families, Adkins said.
Under the law, a person can be charged with abuse of a corpse simply by vandalizing, damaging or treating a gravesite offensively — even if the human remains buried there are not touched, Adkins said.
The child's skull has not been found. If recovered later, however, such a discovery will not change the charges filed against the three suspects, Adkins said.
The teens first came to police's attention during a vehicle burglary investigation. While being questioned, Jones told of desecrating the gravesite a month or two ago. Adkins said he believes the tale was intended to distract police from the vehicle break-in.
Jones claimed he and his friends used shovels to dig up the body and removed the corpse's head with a garden tool, Adkins said. Jones also revealed he and the other two boys took the severed head to the juvenile's home, where they used the skull as a "bong" to smoke marijuana, the officer said.
Police made three trips to the heavily wooded, snake-infested graveyard near the Eastex Freeway feeder road and FM 1960 before finding the disturbed grave several days ago.
"The grave was uncovered, and the headstone had been thrown off the grave and broken," Adkins said.
Because the grave is flooded with murky water from recent heavy rains, police have been unable to determine if the child's casket is still in the ground.
All three teens gave written and verbal confessions admitting they tried to dig up a body over a two-day period, Adkins said.
But the boys told conflicting stories about whether they actually severed the head — so police aren't sure if that gruesome detail really happened.
Even so, HPD is working closely with Humble police to try and find any surviving relatives of the child whose grave was disturbed. According to court papers, the grave belonged to Willie Simms.
"The ultimate goal will be to put this body back to rest," Adkins said.
Little is known about the graveyard. The Humble Bicentennial Museum could not confirm that it was reserved for black veterans, but Adkins said he observed "many, many headstones" for black soldiers killed during World War I and World War II.
The three boys, all home-schooled, have also been charged in connection with the vehicle break-in. Jones and the juvenile are charged with credit card abuse, while Gonzalez pleaded guilty to a charge of misdemeanor theft between $50 and $500.
Chronicle reporter Brian Rogers contributed.
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| sweds00 |
McGyver smoker
Thurgood Jenkins: The MacGyver smoker is a very handy guy to have around, especially when it comes to reefer.
McGayver Friend: Hey, man, we're out of papers.
McGayver Smoker: All right. Then get me a toilet paper roll, a corkscrew and some tin foil.
McGayver Friend: We don't have a corkscrew.
McGayver Smoker: All right. Then get me a horse head.
McGayver Smoker: [Friend looks at him funny] Trust me, bro. I've made bongs with less. Hurry up! |
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| Zoso |
| lololol, talk about some real HEADS, here. lololol :rolleyes: |
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| Arbiter |
What might seem outrageous elsewhere is pretty normal in Humble. I mean, just looking at the last week of news there we have this:
| quote: | A man who was sentenced to 10 years’ probation for the 1998 murder of 26-year-old wrecker driver Steven Hardin in Humble may be forced to fulfill the conditions of his probation after all.
During a court review of Barry Crawford’s probationary status May 13, a Harris County judge agreed with the victim’s family that the convicted murderer fulfilled few, if any, of his probation requirements. It was a finding that, just in the nick of time, prevented Crawford from coming off his probation scot-free.
A jury convicted Crawford, now 47, of first degree murder about a decade ago for the shooting of Steven Hardin at a trailer park off Old Humble Road.
Nevertheless, Crawford was sentenced to probation only and never spent a day in prison.
Steven Hardin worked for Midwest Auto Storage in Houston as a wrecker driver when he was killed. He was also a husband and the father of a young daughter and son.
“Crawford had his pickup truck illegally parked on a neighbor’s property off and on for a while,” said Carolyn Hardin, Steven’s mother. “He had received several notices that his truck would be towed. He knew that would happen. That night, my son happened to be the wrecker driver to catch the call and went over there at about 1:30 p.m. He was under the truck to hook it up when Crawford hit him in the face with the butt of a shotgun.”
Carolyn Hardin said that when Steven emerged from beneath the vehicle, Crawford delivered one fatal shot to her son’s heart.
As part of his probation, said crime victims’ advocate Andy Kahan with the city of Houston, Crawford was supposed to meet several requirements, none of which, he added, were satisfactorily fulfilled.
“Crawford has been skirting the conditions of his probation for years,” Kahan said. “He was supposed to carry a picture of the victim in his wallet. But he supposedly doesn’t carry a wallet. He was supposed to have a bumper sticker on his car reading, ‘Don’t mess with drugs,’ but he says he doesn’t have a car. He is about $10,000 in default on his restitution, but he’d make a $2 payment just to say he paid. He was supposed to carry a sign five times a year, but I don’t know the last time he’s done it.”
The sign was supposed to read, “I murdered an Humble citizen,” Hardin said, a requirement, like the others, that was ordered by then-Judge Ted Poe, who presided over the original murder trial. |
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