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Missouri man accused of dismembering victim, throwing arms at witnesses
KIRKSVILLE, Mo. • A northeast Missouri man accused of killing a man, dismembering the body and setting fires to conceal the crime, hurled the victim’s arms at witnesses shortly before he was arrested, police said.
Paul R. Potter, 49, of Kirksville, was charged Monday in Adair County with second-degree murder, arson and tampering with a motor vehicle and is being held on $1 million bond. Kevin Locke, the public defender assigned to represent Potter, did not immediately return a phone call Tuesday seeking comment.
Authorities are not releasing the victim’s name until relatives have been notified, the Adair County prosecutor’s office said.
Police officers responding to a call of a vehicle fire Sunday arrived at a public housing development in Kirksville and saw Potter “throw two objects, later identified as human arms, towards the witnesses,” according to a probable cause statement.
serfer62
January 9th, 2013
That “tampering with a motor vegicle” is bad, bad , bad!
Wyatt, Insensitive Progressive Jerk
January 9th, 2013
A potential Constitutional crisis revolving around the right to bare arms.
Claudia
January 9th, 2013
Was he trying to avoid the long arm of the law?
Chalupa
January 9th, 2013
Obviously a case of flailure to communicate…
Noodengr
January 9th, 2013
Is this what barry and joey have in mind when they come to disarm us? I think it is a bit extreme, but I would not put it past those two dufuses.
Tim
January 9th, 2013
Kill and dismember somebody and it’s second degree murder?
WTF?
Tiger Eyes
January 9th, 2013
Don’t worry, he won’t get second degree murder. Instead, he will have a “Dialog” with a Liberal Know it all and he will walk free!
Brooke
January 9th, 2013
Clearly, we have to outlaw murder, motor vehicles, fire and knives! Where is Obama on this?!?
WhoreDildo "Che" Rivera
January 9th, 2013
Reminds me of Imam O’bowMao’s lame joke about the right to bare arms!!
the aardvark
January 9th, 2013
If he had set the arm on fire and then thrown it would he be charged with the illegal use of a firearm?