"There are no remaining body parts"
March 29, 2007 9:45 PM Subscribe
Houston man kills, then cooks ex-girlfriend on his patio barbecue. Neighbors called authorities when they realized Timothy Wayne Shepard had been acting strange and had spent 48 hours straight barbecuing on two separate grills. Also starring one of Houston's most colorful characters, Quanell X.
Geez, only in Texas would one dispose of remains by having a bigass barbecue.
Also, missing "batshitinsane" tag.
posted by rolypolyman at 9:56 PM on March 29, 2007
Also, missing "batshitinsane" tag.
posted by rolypolyman at 9:56 PM on March 29, 2007
Anyone with the middle name Wayne is likely to commit murder, put this person in Texas and likely becomes certainty.
posted by ill3 at 9:59 PM on March 29, 2007
posted by ill3 at 9:59 PM on March 29, 2007
Unfortunate wording: "The sheriff said the five-day investigation of the killing, followed by days of blistering criticism"
posted by tellurian at 9:59 PM on March 29, 2007
posted by tellurian at 9:59 PM on March 29, 2007
This would've made a really memorable Smackdown with Bobby Flay.
posted by maryh at 10:00 PM on March 29, 2007 [3 favorites]
posted by maryh at 10:00 PM on March 29, 2007 [3 favorites]
The Weber Live Ex-Girlfriend Well grill attachment I was eyeing at Costco would have been ideal for this application.
posted by jimmythefish at 10:04 PM on March 29, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by jimmythefish at 10:04 PM on March 29, 2007 [1 favorite]
It took a lot of restraint for me not to put "yummy" as a tag but I wasn't sure if the sarcasm markup would display correctly.
posted by Brittanie at 10:09 PM on March 29, 2007
posted by Brittanie at 10:09 PM on March 29, 2007
Throw another mate on the barby for me, shrimp.
posted by ikkyu2 at 10:10 PM on March 29, 2007 [8 favorites]
posted by ikkyu2 at 10:10 PM on March 29, 2007 [8 favorites]
It's a bit of a drive, but I still say the Salt Lick is better.
posted by dhammond at 10:15 PM on March 29, 2007
posted by dhammond at 10:15 PM on March 29, 2007
Wow; good on Quanell X. He's kind of the hero here, isn't he?
Is Quanell an unique first name? Google seems to say so.
posted by mr_roboto at 10:18 PM on March 29, 2007
Is Quanell an unique first name? Google seems to say so.
posted by mr_roboto at 10:18 PM on March 29, 2007
Yeah I live in Houston. The sequence of events as they played out on the local news was basically 1) several days of "missing girl, details at 11, 2) Whats his name confesses and it's all over the news 3) the barbecue thing hits and the coverage totally freaking explodes.
posted by shanevsevil at 10:19 PM on March 29, 2007
posted by shanevsevil at 10:19 PM on March 29, 2007
So how many food calories are there in an average human body?
posted by porpoise at 10:20 PM on March 29, 2007
posted by porpoise at 10:20 PM on March 29, 2007
So he went to all the trouble of BBQing his girlfriend up and didn't even try any?
That's just wrong.
posted by lekvar at 10:25 PM on March 29, 2007
That's just wrong.
posted by lekvar at 10:25 PM on March 29, 2007
Every once in awhile here in Dallas, I'll wake up one morning or I'll be driving home from work, and wafting about my neighborhood is the smell of mesquite wood and beef brisket. Mmmmm...
After reading this, now I'll be gagging. Thanks a whole helluva lot.
I don't know if it made it to the TV news here in Dallas, since I try to avoid local TV news. The TV is not on as I'm typing this. I only turn the TV on anymore to play DVDs, watch Heroes, and Lost (Paulo & Nikki OMFGWTFROTLMAO!). I don't even watch David Letterman anymore.
Most TV blows, and local news hasn't been worthwhile around these parts since the JFK assassination.
posted by ZachsMind at 10:26 PM on March 29, 2007
After reading this, now I'll be gagging. Thanks a whole helluva lot.
I don't know if it made it to the TV news here in Dallas, since I try to avoid local TV news. The TV is not on as I'm typing this. I only turn the TV on anymore to play DVDs, watch Heroes, and Lost (Paulo & Nikki OMFGWTFROTLMAO!). I don't even watch David Letterman anymore.
Most TV blows, and local news hasn't been worthwhile around these parts since the JFK assassination.
posted by ZachsMind at 10:26 PM on March 29, 2007
Quanell X has received a lot of press in Houston for helping several high-profile suspects surrender to police (or convincing them to) but he's also sort of an inflammatory character — an ex drug dealer who likes to play devil's advocate and who is really, really press-savvy.
Houston seems to have a love/hate relationship with him — some refer to him as a black rights leader and other refer to him as a black supremacist. He's a national spokesman for the New Black Panthers, which bothers a lot of people.
posted by Brittanie at 10:28 PM on March 29, 2007
Houston seems to have a love/hate relationship with him — some refer to him as a black rights leader and other refer to him as a black supremacist. He's a national spokesman for the New Black Panthers, which bothers a lot of people.
posted by Brittanie at 10:28 PM on March 29, 2007
Geez, only in Texas would one dispose of remains by having a bigass barbecue.
Well, there was that one time at the Whistle Stop Cafe in Alamabama...
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:37 PM on March 29, 2007 [3 favorites]
Well, there was that one time at the Whistle Stop Cafe in Alamabama...
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 10:37 PM on March 29, 2007 [3 favorites]
Yeah that's us Southerners for you, always like a big barbecue. Though quite a few of also like a nice Pot of Gumbo for variety.
posted by erskelyne at 10:48 PM on March 29, 2007
posted by erskelyne at 10:48 PM on March 29, 2007
So he went to all the trouble of BBQing his girlfriend up and didn't even try any?
I guess it depends on your socio-economic situation as to how you ultimately dispose of your quarry.
posted by strawberryviagra at 11:55 PM on March 29, 2007
I guess it depends on your socio-economic situation as to how you ultimately dispose of your quarry.
posted by strawberryviagra at 11:55 PM on March 29, 2007
March 23 – HCSO reversed its decision not to search after public outcry. The department then says Shepherd may have been dismembered.
You would hope that there would be a bit less doubt over whether or not your main suspect, who has been charged and is presumably locked up in a cell right now, still has all their limbs or not.
posted by public at 12:29 AM on March 30, 2007
You would hope that there would be a bit less doubt over whether or not your main suspect, who has been charged and is presumably locked up in a cell right now, still has all their limbs or not.
posted by public at 12:29 AM on March 30, 2007
That night Shepherd was charged with strangling Tynesha Stewart’s murder.
So first he murdered her, then he strangled her murder?
posted by kcds at 3:44 AM on March 30, 2007
So first he murdered her, then he strangled her murder?
posted by kcds at 3:44 AM on March 30, 2007
Shepard obviously missed this AskMe thread.
Heh. N00b.
posted by Tommy Gnosis at 4:02 AM on March 30, 2007
Heh. N00b.
posted by Tommy Gnosis at 4:02 AM on March 30, 2007
"And I would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for Quanell X."
posted by Flashman at 4:28 AM on March 30, 2007
posted by Flashman at 4:28 AM on March 30, 2007
So...does anyone else think that over those two days or so he just tried a little nibble...you know, just to see....?
posted by sourwookie at 5:13 AM on March 30, 2007
posted by sourwookie at 5:13 AM on March 30, 2007
I saw this story the other day. Yahoo kicked it up a notch.
posted by ardgedee at 5:41 AM on March 30, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by ardgedee at 5:41 AM on March 30, 2007 [1 favorite]
This is sick. The girl was nineteen.
If only she'd been over thirty, it would all have been hunky-dory.
posted by reklaw at 5:43 AM on March 30, 2007 [3 favorites]
If only she'd been over thirty, it would all have been hunky-dory.
posted by reklaw at 5:43 AM on March 30, 2007 [3 favorites]
... albeit, a little chewy.
posted by strawberryviagra at 6:54 AM on March 30, 2007
posted by strawberryviagra at 6:54 AM on March 30, 2007
What really grossed me out about both articles wasn't the content, but rather the grammar and writing style. Yeugh.
posted by alon at 8:22 AM on March 30, 2007
posted by alon at 8:22 AM on March 30, 2007
Ah, what a titillating pageant of grotesquerie and human perversion. LOL Texas! Oh yeah and some girl died.
posted by nanojath at 8:30 AM on March 30, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by nanojath at 8:30 AM on March 30, 2007 [1 favorite]
only in Texas would one dispose of remains by having a bigass barbecue.
And Thailand
posted by the cuban at 8:37 AM on March 30, 2007
And Thailand
posted by the cuban at 8:37 AM on March 30, 2007
It's not news when a guy kills his girlfriend; it's only news if he does it in an imaginative manner.
Her name was Tynesha Stewart, and she was a student at Texas A&M. Here's a picture. It appears that he choked her to death. It's difficult to resist the jokes, but please look at her picture and recognize that domestic violence isn't funny. She had a great smile, and she likely died in pain and terror. I'm so sorry for her family.
posted by theora55 at 8:51 AM on March 30, 2007 [9 favorites]
Her name was Tynesha Stewart, and she was a student at Texas A&M. Here's a picture. It appears that he choked her to death. It's difficult to resist the jokes, but please look at her picture and recognize that domestic violence isn't funny. She had a great smile, and she likely died in pain and terror. I'm so sorry for her family.
posted by theora55 at 8:51 AM on March 30, 2007 [9 favorites]
yikes. Poor kid, she obviously made the mistake of hanging out with a psychopath and paid for it with her life. Hope he's put where he can't do more harm. Who knows what this freak left in his wake. Or her wake. Pun unintended.
Timothy Wayne Shepherd said previously he wanted to boil somebody and eat them. barf.
Having been to the burning pyre funeral of Chogyam Trungpa years ago in Vermont, I was pretty disgusted to find that the remains of a human being burned smells like cooking any meat. Never was able to see the word or smell anything char broiled the same after that. unnnggg.
Condolences to Tynesha Stewart's family and friends. May she rest in peace.
posted by nickyskye at 9:11 AM on March 30, 2007
Timothy Wayne Shepherd said previously he wanted to boil somebody and eat them. barf.
Having been to the burning pyre funeral of Chogyam Trungpa years ago in Vermont, I was pretty disgusted to find that the remains of a human being burned smells like cooking any meat. Never was able to see the word or smell anything char broiled the same after that. unnnggg.
Condolences to Tynesha Stewart's family and friends. May she rest in peace.
posted by nickyskye at 9:11 AM on March 30, 2007
I read one article that interviewed his next door neighbor, who was miffed because they often barbecued together and wasn't invited over.
posted by electroboy at 9:48 AM on March 30, 2007
posted by electroboy at 9:48 AM on March 30, 2007
electroboy: if it's the same article, this guy was grilling up the ex girlfriend in the barbeque that he borrowed from that same neighbor!
posted by drstein at 10:06 AM on March 30, 2007
posted by drstein at 10:06 AM on March 30, 2007
Way to pull a Homer J! I don't think Flanders will be asking for his grill back.
posted by iamkimiam at 12:26 PM on March 30, 2007
posted by iamkimiam at 12:26 PM on March 30, 2007
Fried Green Tomatos fan, eh?
posted by Smedleyman at 12:41 PM on March 30, 2007
posted by Smedleyman at 12:41 PM on March 30, 2007
It is wrong. Sorry. It's so friggin' wrong that it's entirely overwhelming and unfathomable. Sometimes momentarily removing myself from the reality for some innapropriate humor is a nice denial mechanism to help wrap my mind around something so shitty. It's immature, but I am not making any claims here...
posted by iamkimiam at 3:34 PM on March 30, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by iamkimiam at 3:34 PM on March 30, 2007 [1 favorite]
Something that bothered me about all this was that although the search for Tynesha Stewart -- when she was still presumed alive -- and the arrest of Timothy Shepherd -- when she was known to be dead -- were all over the local news for days on end, the story didn't hit the national news until a couple days after the gruesome details were made public.
During the same period that Tynesha was considered a missing person and EquuSearch and the others were actually looking for her, there was massive cable-news coverage of a missing boy scout in North Carolina.
I don't know if it's a racial thing, or if it's that a missing college student isn't as "interesting" as a missing child, or what. Or maybe Tynesha's family just didn't have as many resources to bring attention to their story as Natalee Holloway's did. But I really do understand and sympathize with the anger that Quannel X and Derrick Muhammad have expressed about the case.
There's a lot of questions about how the police investigators handled things. They visited Shepherd's apartment, interviewed him, saw "raw meat" in the bathtub and -- apparently -- accepted his excuse that it was "chicken" he was thawing. I don't expect them to solve the case in an hour, like a CSI fantasy, but come on.
posted by Robert Angelo at 6:39 PM on March 30, 2007 [1 favorite]
During the same period that Tynesha was considered a missing person and EquuSearch and the others were actually looking for her, there was massive cable-news coverage of a missing boy scout in North Carolina.
I don't know if it's a racial thing, or if it's that a missing college student isn't as "interesting" as a missing child, or what. Or maybe Tynesha's family just didn't have as many resources to bring attention to their story as Natalee Holloway's did. But I really do understand and sympathize with the anger that Quannel X and Derrick Muhammad have expressed about the case.
There's a lot of questions about how the police investigators handled things. They visited Shepherd's apartment, interviewed him, saw "raw meat" in the bathtub and -- apparently -- accepted his excuse that it was "chicken" he was thawing. I don't expect them to solve the case in an hour, like a CSI fantasy, but come on.
posted by Robert Angelo at 6:39 PM on March 30, 2007 [1 favorite]
Her name was Tynesha Stewart, and she was a student at Texas A&M. Here's a picture. It appears that he choked her to death. It's difficult to resist the jokes, but please look at her picture and recognize that domestic violence isn't funny. She had a great smile, and she likely died in pain and terror. I'm so sorry for her family.
QFT.
grow up, metafilter. that is, if you want to keep insisting that you're immeasurably better than fark, digg, et al, you'd better start acting like it.
posted by lord_wolf at 6:52 PM on March 30, 2007
QFT.
grow up, metafilter. that is, if you want to keep insisting that you're immeasurably better than fark, digg, et al, you'd better start acting like it.
posted by lord_wolf at 6:52 PM on March 30, 2007
Lest we forget, 1000 people showed up for a memorial service for Tynesha Stewart, who went missing a month ago today.
posted by Robert Angelo at 8:47 AM on April 15, 2007
posted by Robert Angelo at 8:47 AM on April 15, 2007
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