GRUESOME new details about how an accused “cannibal killer” allegedly butchered his ex-girlfriend with a saw and then ate her heart and brains emerged in court today. Cops recalled finding “blood everywhere” after Joseph Oberhansley allegedly raped and slaughtered Tammy Jo Blanton and left her dismembered body in the bathtub. In an interview with cops in […]
GRUESOME new details about how an accused “cannibal killer” allegedly butchered his ex-girlfriend with a saw and then ate her heart and brains emerged in court today.
Cops recalled finding “blood everywhere” after Joseph Oberhansley allegedly raped and slaughtered Tammy Jo Blanton and left her dismembered body in the bathtub.
In an interview with cops in Jeffersonville, Indiana, that was played in court this week, the 39-year-old suspected killer admitted to cannibalism, according to WLKY.
Oberhansley has been charged with murder, rape and abuse of a corpse over the 2014 death of his ex in her home in a scene prosecutors described as “worse than a horror movie.”
According to police, Oberhansley was taken into custody with blood on his knuckles and a bloody knife, but he insisted he hadn’t seen Blanton in a few days.
However, he later admitted to being at the crime scene and claimed two black men were accountable for his ex’s murder.
On Monday, six current and former officers testified in Oberhansley’s murder trial.
They explained how when they arrived at Blanton’s home to do a welfare check, Oberhansley answered the door.
According to WKLY, Maj. Mark Lovan attested Oberhansley, who refused to comply at the scene, appeared to be “nervous” when officers questioned him.
Blood was found throughout the home, on Blanton’s walls and on light switches, according to one officer.
A butcher knife, steak knife and frying pan was also found to have blood on them.
Oberhansley later confessed to killing his ex after claiming he ate parts of Blanton’s body, including her brain.
He admitted to an act of cannibalism and his reasoning was because Blanton “was already dead,” according to authorities.
Oberhansley also told the detective that Blanton “wasn’t all that scared, surprisingly,” referring to the moments leading up to her death.
Earlier this month, a new trial began for the Oberhansley who stands accused of murdering and eating parts of his ex-girlfriend’s body after the first ended in mistrial on Day 1.
Oberhansley allegedly slaughtered Blanton, 46, after breaking into her home and using an electric saw to open her skull.
Blanton had called the police to report that Oberhansley was trying to break into her home about 3am September 11, 2014.
When police arrived, he agreed to leave but when Balton didn’t turn up to work the next morning, cops arrived at her home to find Oberhansley answered the door.
Tammy Jo was discovered with parts of her skull removed under a tent draped over her bathtub.
Cops also found a “plate with what appeared to be skull bone and blood” on it and a pair of tongs with blood on them in the bin.
An autopsy revealed she died from multiple stab wounds and parts of her heart, lungs and brain were missing.
It is the second murder trial Oberhansley will face after the first ended as soon as it began when a witness mentioned Oberhansley’s prior criminal past which was deemed inadmissible.
