Man found guilty of killing, cutting up Bourbon St. stripper whose body parts washed ashore
Posted June 19, 2015 7:07 pm.
Last Updated June 19, 2015 7:40 pm.
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GRETNA, La. – A jury has found a Louisiana man guilty of killing and dismembering a stripper he lured from a New Orleans French Quarter bar.
Terry Speaks and his ex-girlfriend, Margaret Sanchez, were charged with the second-degree murder of 22-year-old Jaren Lockhart.
Sanchez’s trial has not yet been scheduled.
Lockhart’s head, lower legs and left thigh washed up on Mississippi beaches in June 2012.
Prosecutors say Speaks and Sanchez tried to derail investigators by dismembering the woman’s body and cutting tattoos from her body to make her unidentifiable and scrubbing down their apartment and vehicle.
Speaks initially tried to represent himself in the trial but after one day handed the case back to his defence attorneys.
Speaks faces life in prison when he’s sentenced.
