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Men Indicted For Robbing Corpse PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Thursday, 28 October 2004
For the first time ever, the Austin Homicide Unit charged two men with theft from a corpse. A Travis County grand jury just indicted the accused thieves.

The men indicted are Joe Lewis and Artemus Pierson. They allegedly stole jewelry from their good friend's dead body.

"They were pretty good friends. They knew his family, been to his parent's house and they still did this," Detective Eric De Los Santos with the APD Homicide Unit said.

Joe Lewis and Artemus Pierson tell police they dropped off their friend Louis Guiterrez at a friends house after a night of partying on Sixth Street and never saw him again.

Detectives soon found out that's not how it happened.

"They're reaction was one of surprise and denial at first but eventually they said that they had done it," Santos said.

The two suspects admit they were all drinking and taking Xanex that night on Sixth Street when Guiterrez allegedly overdosed in the car.

For fear of being arrested if they took him to the hospital, the two tell police they dumped the body instead.

They admit to taking Guiterrez's four gold rings and chain with a crucifix before leaving the scene.

That's not all.

"We began our research on these guys and found out they pawned these items," Santos said.

Police checked pawn records and found out the men pawned the jewelry in exchange for money the same day they dumped the body.

"What struck us is - in this business we're never surprised, but these were his friends. The very fact that he died when he was with them and they didn't take him to the hospital for fear that they could be charged with a DWI," Santos said.

The charges are much worse than a DWI. The suspects have been indicted with the felony of theft from a corpse. Pawn records are what connected the suspects to the crime.

That's how police say they got a confession. It is still not known how Guiterrez died.

The suspects say he died of an overdose but police are not taking their word for it so this case remains open.


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