Joel Guy Jr Murdered his parents To Get Insurance Benefits

Joel Guy Jr. was born on March 13, 1988, and his relatives referred to him as Joel Michael to differentiate him from his father. His half-sisters would notice that he was reclusive and rarely left his room, but that he was intelligent. In 2006, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts.

Joel, on the other hand, spent the majority of his life with his parents in 11434 Goldenview Lane in West Knox, Tennessee. He attended George Washington University for a semester before dropping out. He later enrolled at Louisiana State University to pursue plastic surgery, but dropped out in 2015, leaving him to live casually in a Baton Rouge apartment.

He was in college for nine years without graduating, all of it paid for by his parents. He had never worked by the time he was 28. Joel Guy Sr. understood he had to cut his son off when he was sacked from his engineering job. His wife was working as a human resources assistant for another engineering firm, and the couple planned to retire.

But they would never have the opportunity  to retire because Joel Guy Jr., who was well-versed in his parents' affairs, wanted their money for himself.

Joel Guy Jr. had already planned his crimes in a notepad and acquired plastic containers and bleach. On November 24, he started when his mother went shopping.

Joel Guy Jr. walked upstairs and stabbed his father to death in the gym. The sword punctured the lungs, liver, and kidneys, as well as breaking many ribs. Lisa, who had been widowed, returned and was similarly ambushed. Joel had severed nine of her ribs, according to an autopsy.

Joel Guy Jr. severed his father's wrists and arms before returning to his apartment on November 27, 2016. He then used a saw to sever his legs at the hip and his right foot at the ankle, leaving it in the gym room.

There were numerous defensive wounds on the body.

Joel then sliced up his mother's body in the same way, but he also decapitated her. He put his parents' torsos and limbs inside two 45-gallon plastic containers and set the temperature to 90 degrees. His notepad stated that this "hastens decomposition" and may "melt fingerprints."

Prosecutors would refer to such containers of dissolving body parts as a "diabolical stew of human remains." They were discovered after Lisa Guy failed to show up for work, prompting her boss to call the cops. Detective Jeremy McCord of the Knox County Sheriff's Office conducted a welfare check and arrived with an "ominous sensation."

“Walking through the downstairs of the house, nothing made sense to me,” he said. “You can see straight down the hall and I saw hands… not connected to a body. At that point, the other officers held the hallway and we started doing standard building clearing. I will never get those smells out of my head or my dreams.”

The walls were covered in blood, and the floors were strewn with blood-soaked garments. Lisa Guy's head was discovered cooking in a stockpot on the stove by investigators. Joel Guy Jr. was caught on Nov. 29 while attempting to flee his apartment in his 2006 Hyundai Sonata.

His notebook, left behind at the crime scene, included details like considering to flood the home to “cover up forensic evidence” and to set up an automated text from his mother on Sunday to “prove that I was in [Baton Rouge] and she was alive.” It also noted the life insurance policy, which served as the prosecution’s motive.

“$500,000 would be all mine,” it read. “With him missing/dead, I get the whole thing.”

On October 2, 2020, Joel Guy Jr. was found guilty of two counts of premeditated first-degree murder, three counts of felony murder, and two counts of abuse of a corpse — and was sentenced to life in prison.