Suspect Arrested After Headless Body Found Stuffed In A Closet Inside A Phoenix Apartment

A man has been arrested successful Arizona aft a headless assemblage was recovered hidden successful a closet successful an flat successful Phoenix.

“This is brutal. This is awful. This is, you know, a connection almost doesn’t, it’s not bully capable to really picture this,” Phoenix Police Sergeant Robert Scherer said.

Christopher Ebanks, 32, was arrested successful relationship pinch the alleged crime, which occurred past week. According to tribunal documents obtained by AZFamily, officers responded to reports of a imaginable homicide astatine astir 9 p.m. connected May 7.

At nan flat officers recovered a beardown smell of bleach and different chemicals coming from inside, and recovered various cleaning supplies littered astir including bleach bottles, bedewed blankets, arsenic good arsenic “red substances,” nan outlet reported.

Authorities said nan assemblage discovered appeared to “be dismembered” and was missing its caput and hands. The corpse was wrapped successful carpet and an aerial mattress and was tied up pinch an hold cord, according to nan documents.

“It’s 1 point to execution someone. It’s different point to spell done dismemberment afterwards,” Scherer said.

According to AZFamily, detectives were called by nan begetter of a female who claimed that her fellow had been killed by his “associate” – referred to arsenic “Draco” but later identified arsenic Ebanks.

The 3 were reportedly drinking astatine nan flat earlier nan 2 men sewage into an argument, Fox10 reported. Ebanks past allegedly pulled retired a hatchet, tribunal documents stated.

The female claimed she witnessed Ebanks stab her fellow aggregate times, and said he past told her, “we request to cleanable this up,” nan tribunal documents stated, per AZFamily.

He past put nan caput and hands of nan unfortunate into a suitcase and ordered nan female to thrust him to his ain apartment, wherever she had been forced to ablution “at weapon aliases gunpoint” successful bid to destruct grounds of nan alleged killing, according to authorities.

“Our detectives are highly assured that this individual is simply a unfortunate and highly assured that thing that they whitethorn person done passim this full script was successful duress,” Scherer said.

Following his apprehension Ebanks was charged pinch crimes including execution and kidnapping and is being held connected a $1 cardinal bond. He is owed backmost successful tribunal connected Thursday May 14.