In March 2005 the savage murder of young Morgan Jay Shepherd took place in Brisbane , Australia. The teenager was beheaded after a drinking binge "thrill kill."
James Roughan, 28 and Christopher Jones, 24 are the alleged killers of the seventeen-year-old.
The
teen was stabbed a total of 133 times before his head was sawed off of his body. After the murder it is alleged that Roughan and Jones used the head as both a puppet and a bowling ball. Roughan denies any part of that savagery.
Prosecutor David Meredith has called the death a "thrill kill" with no true motive. Roughan is now on trial for the murder. He was plead guilty to a lesser charge of accessory to murder after the fact and to interfering with a corpse but not guilty to the actual murder. Prosecutors have rejected the plea.
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