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OK this is from the local Atlanta paper, it happened yesterday. If my kids were at or close to driving age, i'd let them read this! How drunk do you have to be to NOT know what happened!!!
Cobb driver charged after decapitated body found in truck
By SAEED AHMED, BRENDEN SAGER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/30/04
A Marietta man left a bar early Sunday morning, got into an accident that decapitated the passenger in his pickup truck, then drove several miles home and went to sleep -- leaving his pickup truck parked overnight in his driveway with the body of his friend hanging out the passenger side window, Cobb County police said.
Police said John Kemper Hutcherson, 21, of Marietta drove off a road soon after leaving a bar about midnight and hit a support wire to a telephone pole. The guide wire severed the head of his friend, Francis Daniel Brohm, 23, of Marietta.
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Hutcherson then drove 12 miles to his home on Fox Hound Chase, where police found him Sunday morning in blood-splattered clothes.
"It's hard for one to imagine that you would drive [several] miles from a crash site to your home, turning in various directions, and yet not know what has happened to a passenger sitting next to you in your vehicle," said Cobb police Cpl. Dana Pierce.
A neighbor out on a stroll with his 1-year-old daughter called authorities after discovering the headless body in the parked truck about 8 a.m.
Hutcherson was charged with first-degree vehicular homicide, driving under the influence, failure to stop at an accident with death or injury and failure to maintain lanes.
Hutcherson, dressed in orange jail clothing and with his head partially shaved, made his first court appearance this morning in a courtroom at the county's Adult Detention Center. Cobb County Magistrate's Court Judge Jennifer Frey set Hutcherson's bond at $100,000. He remains in the Cobb County Jail.
Hutcherson has been in the Cobb County Jail on misdemeanor charges twice before, according to jail officials.
In March 2001, Hutcherson was arrested and charged with DUI, being a minor in possession of alcohol, furnishing a minor with alcohol, having an open container and a seat belt violation, said Nancy Bodiford, a spokeswoman for the Cobb sheriff's department.
Last January, he was arrested by Marietta police for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, Bodiford said. The disposition of those cases was not immediately known.
Police said that before the two friends got to Runaround Sue's in Marietta late Saturday night, they had been at a house where they had gathered to watch a televised NASCAR event. Brohm's father, Dan Brohm, said that Brohm was a mechanic who worked late on Saturdays and then met up with friends sometimes.
Police don't know how long the friends were at the bar but said the two left after Brohm felt sick.
Less than a mile and half from the bar, the pickup truck ran off Canton Road, traveled about 10 feet and hit the guide wire.
Investigators have not yet determined how fast the truck was going. Police would not say why Brohm was hanging out the passenger-side window when he was struck.
After the accident, police said, Hutcherson's route home took him through a commercial and industrial district that changed to dark, narrow winding roads before reaching the two-story Colonial house where he lives with his mother and sister. He parked the 1992 Chevrolet Z-71 in the driveway to the house's two-car garage.
Except for the body in the passenger seat, the only thing amiss was the passenger-side mirror, which had been sheared off in the accident.
Later that morning, police found the severed head at the crash site on Canton Road.
Pierce would not say how Hutcherson explained the headless body<
Cobb driver charged after decapitated body found in truck
By SAEED AHMED, BRENDEN SAGER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/30/04
A Marietta man left a bar early Sunday morning, got into an accident that decapitated the passenger in his pickup truck, then drove several miles home and went to sleep -- leaving his pickup truck parked overnight in his driveway with the body of his friend hanging out the passenger side window, Cobb County police said.
Police said John Kemper Hutcherson, 21, of Marietta drove off a road soon after leaving a bar about midnight and hit a support wire to a telephone pole. The guide wire severed the head of his friend, Francis Daniel Brohm, 23, of Marietta.
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Hutcherson then drove 12 miles to his home on Fox Hound Chase, where police found him Sunday morning in blood-splattered clothes.
"It's hard for one to imagine that you would drive [several] miles from a crash site to your home, turning in various directions, and yet not know what has happened to a passenger sitting next to you in your vehicle," said Cobb police Cpl. Dana Pierce.
A neighbor out on a stroll with his 1-year-old daughter called authorities after discovering the headless body in the parked truck about 8 a.m.
Hutcherson was charged with first-degree vehicular homicide, driving under the influence, failure to stop at an accident with death or injury and failure to maintain lanes.
Hutcherson, dressed in orange jail clothing and with his head partially shaved, made his first court appearance this morning in a courtroom at the county's Adult Detention Center. Cobb County Magistrate's Court Judge Jennifer Frey set Hutcherson's bond at $100,000. He remains in the Cobb County Jail.
Hutcherson has been in the Cobb County Jail on misdemeanor charges twice before, according to jail officials.
In March 2001, Hutcherson was arrested and charged with DUI, being a minor in possession of alcohol, furnishing a minor with alcohol, having an open container and a seat belt violation, said Nancy Bodiford, a spokeswoman for the Cobb sheriff's department.
Last January, he was arrested by Marietta police for possession of less than an ounce of marijuana, Bodiford said. The disposition of those cases was not immediately known.
Police said that before the two friends got to Runaround Sue's in Marietta late Saturday night, they had been at a house where they had gathered to watch a televised NASCAR event. Brohm's father, Dan Brohm, said that Brohm was a mechanic who worked late on Saturdays and then met up with friends sometimes.
Police don't know how long the friends were at the bar but said the two left after Brohm felt sick.
Less than a mile and half from the bar, the pickup truck ran off Canton Road, traveled about 10 feet and hit the guide wire.
Investigators have not yet determined how fast the truck was going. Police would not say why Brohm was hanging out the passenger-side window when he was struck.
After the accident, police said, Hutcherson's route home took him through a commercial and industrial district that changed to dark, narrow winding roads before reaching the two-story Colonial house where he lives with his mother and sister. He parked the 1992 Chevrolet Z-71 in the driveway to the house's two-car garage.
Except for the body in the passenger seat, the only thing amiss was the passenger-side mirror, which had been sheared off in the accident.
Later that morning, police found the severed head at the crash site on Canton Road.
Pierce would not say how Hutcherson explained the headless body<
That guy had to be reallly REALLY DRUNK!
