A California man was just sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for killing his boyfriend, cutting him up into little pieces, and burying his severed head, hands and feet in plastic 99-Cents Only store bags behind the iconic Hollywood sign in Los Angeles, reports L.A. Times.
Last month, 38-year-old Gabriel Campos-Martinez (pictured) was found guilty of murdering his 66-year-old boyfriend Hervey Medellin four years ago. On Monday, a judge sentenced him to 25 years for the grisly crime.
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The murder took place in December 2011, just days after Christmas. According to prosecutors, Campos-Martinez strangled Medellin then sliced him up with a saw. His body parts were then stuffed into a refrigerator before Campos-Martinez eventually bagged them up and buried them near the Bronson Canyon Trail in Griffith Park.
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Three weeks later, two women found the bag containing Medellin’s head while they were out walking their dogs. Police later found Medellin’s hands and feet nearby buried less than six inches underground.
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Around that same time, Campos-Martinez fled Los Angeles for San Antonio, where he married a woman and took a job working at the San Antonio Convention Center. Meanwhile, detectives were able to seize Campos-Martinez’s laptop. In his browser history they discovered searches for sausage-making tools and meat-saws, as well as one for how to “Butcher a Human Carcass for Human Consumption.”
“The article talked, gave directions on how to cut up a human body,” Los Angeles Police Department detective Lisa Sanchez-Padilla testified. “It gave directions on how high to go on the neck, where to cut on the wrist, the ankles, different parts of the body, and how to actually, in reading it, also how to drain it of blood.”
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Detectives were unable to locate the actual tools Campos-Martinez used to dismember Medellin, and the man’s torso has yet to be found.
When asked at sentencing this week why he murdered Medellin, Campos-Martinez declined to answer the question, though authorities believe it was because the couple was headed for a break up.
“I think he felt the victim was going to leave him or ask him to move out,” Los Angeles prosecutor Bobby Grace told People. “He was totally dependent on Medellin financially.”
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Sweetie Pie
People will do anything for being famous
Patrick Mahaney
Only 25?!
Louie Mars
Buried the head behind the Hollywood sign…how sentimental.
Derek Perron
Only 25?
Preston Stevenson
Umm Noelle Finger that’s a little close to home for you
Stuart Senften
Another Jeffrey Dahmer..OMG..Thought we only had that Sick of a Son of a Bitches here in OHio!!!
Stache
Stupid amature. You never use your own computer to search out ways of disposing of a body.
Kieran
Bernie Madoff gets 795 years in prison for ripping off some greedy rich people but this guy gets 25 years for murdering and dismembering his boyfriend. At least we got our sense of priorities straight in America.
Elon L Bugyi
Proof that we’re all the same. Gays can be as wacko as heterosexuals. Pity.
Brian JC Kneeland
Should have life in prison with no parole!
SeeingAll
Another anti-gay hate crime out of sick California ??
Stefano
@SeeingAll: yes Californiens are all homophobes ! Lol
Marky
@SeeingAll: Yup; straight bait kills sugar daddy then marries his gf-on-the-side before making sugar-daddy-pie.
SeeingAll
@Stefano: Well…if Texans are all homophobes because of one murder (probably done by another gay guy) I’m guessing the same rule applies to California.
SeeingAll
@Marky: Did you SAY that or rap it ?
SeeingAll
@Brian JC Kneeland: Your Haakon Gisvold deserves a bit of time too.
Lestar
…that is just..wow. What was going on in his mind?? And he only gets 25?
Stache
@Stuart Senften: I don’t think he ate him though.
Glücklich
If someone cuts off my head in L.A. I’ll ask them to bury it near Griffith Observatory. I’ve always preferred Los Feliz to Hollywood.
Chris
Horrific. I hope something happens to him while he’s in prison.
Kangol
@Glücklich: If someone’s cutting off your head it’s unlikely they’re going to follow any directions you have to give, but let’s pray that never happens to you or anyone else.
This story represents one of the most asymmetrically gruesome reactions to a break up that I’ve ever heard. This nutcase deserves not only more than 25 years, but intensive psychological help for the rest of his life.
Glücklich
@Kangol:
No you don’t think so? Even if I ask nicely and reimburse mileage?
Bob LaBlah
@Kangol: “This story represents one of the most asymmetrically gruesome reactions to a break up that I’ve ever heard. This nutcase deserves not only more than 25 years, but intensive psychological help for the rest of his life.”
Shit like this is exactly why I support the death penalty. This guy never said why he killed the guy but had no problem admitting he was financially depended on him. This guy was robbed of his life, no matter how it is looked at. This was murder while committing robbery in my opinion. He kills the guy; dismembers his body; dumps it behind the Hollywood sign; makes his way to another state; starts life all over again with a woman after killing a guy who no doubt worked for everything he had and whose only mistake was showing this low-life fuck kindness. And all he gets is 25 years, which translates that he might be out in twelve years? Something is wrong with this picture folks.
Within the last ten years, after years of haggling back and forth with appeals, a woman was put to death for the murder of her lesbian lover who had finally had enough of her drug use and told her to get out. She shot the girl FOUR times in the BACK with a twelve-gauge shotgun and claimed insanity. Down here in Oklahoma, that kind of shit just doesn’t fly. Your sexuality aint got a damn thing to do with murder. Do it, get caught, and you will pay the ultimate, JUST price.
Believe it or not, Oklahoma is STILL trying to get their hands on the Oklahoma City bomber coconspirator, Nichols. They want to put him to death as well because in our eyes, his ass is just as guilty as Timothy McVeigh. He knew damn well what McVeigh was up to but said nothing while he helped the guy practice detonating those bombs. He is never going to get out of prison but the entire time he is in there he constantly looks over his shoulder. White supremacist bullshit be damn many of THEM had family members who were killed in that blast and they aint smiling about it either.
pscheck2
What the hell is wrong with our Justice system?! Only 25 to life. You know good behaviour will get him a reducewd sentence and be out in 10 years! Its a heinious crimeand it should have been Life without parole!What message does this send to these homophobes? ‘Oh, well–if I wack my lover, I’ll only serve a short time and be young enough to get a new one!Muder, as deliberate as this one should be treated as a maximun penalty: Life in Prison without parole!