Father found guilty of killing and dismembering his girlfriend as he forced their daughter to watch (and made her hold the head as he severed it)
A grisly discovery likened to something from the files of “Hannibal Lechter” is a story of a man facing the death penalty for killing his girlfriend, dismembering her body and making the woman’s daughter not only watch the killing and dismemberment but forced to hold her mother’s head during the crime.
The jury turned in a guilty verdict just two hours finding James Hawkins, 33 guilty of the crimes of killing Charlene Gaither, 28.
Now it’s up to the jury to decide whether Hawkins will face death.
The 15 year old girl is the daughter of Hawkins and Gaither and she testified she was repeatedly sexually abused by Hawkins for 3 years. Hawkins had at one time served time in prison. Not only that but Hawkins even enlisted his own sons to buy a circular saw he used in the bloody encounter.
Hawkins originally plead guilty to dismembering the body but tried to put the blame of the murder on his daughter. No one bought the criminal’s story.
This looks like another case of a person, Gaithner who just couldn’t see the light of day in regard to being connected with a criminal. She was either oblivious to his abuses or afraid or just didn’t care. She paid the ultimate price for her errors in judgment.
I thk she knw he was dangerous but was afraid of him n he was threatin 2 kill her daug so she died saving her daug life….GOD BLESS HER DAUGH SHE IS A BRAVE GRL!!!!!!!!!!!