Police: Man Slept With Dead Girlfriend, Euthanized Her Cats
POSTED: Thursday, October 5, 2006
UPDATED: 12:20 pm EDT October 6,
2006
A 46-year-old man in Marion County, Fla., is accused of killing his girlfriend, sleeping with her body and then waking up and taking the woman's five cats to be euthanized, according to police.Investigators said James Johnson confessed to strangling his girlfriend, Barbara Campbell, 46, at their Ocala, Fla., apartment."They had an argument about a drinking problem that she had," Marion County sheriff's Capt. James Pogue said.Johnson told police he then attacked and killed Campbell, the report said."At that point he said he put her in the bed," Pogue said. "He changed her clothes. He pulled the covers over her and placed a plant next to her."Campbell then slept with the body in the apartment, Local 6 News reported.The man then woke up and took her cats from the home, according to police."(Thursday) morning at 10 a.m. we know that he went to an animal cruelty center and had her five cats euthanized so that they could be with her," Pogue said.Johnson went to his VA doctor and said that authorities could find Campbell's body in his apartment.He was charged with first-degree murder and held at the Marion County Jail without bond.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
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