Cannibalsim stuns Indiana town - Jeffersonville

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/alleged-cannibalism-stuns-indiana-town-jeffersonville-n204956

A southern Indiana town is reeling after 33-year-old Joseph Albert Oberhansley was charged with killing his girlfriend in a case so disturbing that even the prosecutor said he'd never seen anything like it in a quarter-century in office. Oberhansley was being held without bond on murder and other charges pending a February trial date in the death last week of Tammy Jo Blanton, 46, whose body was found with numerous stab wounds at her home in Jeffersonville, a few miles north of Louisville, Kentucky.

Oberhansley admitted having cannibalized several of Blanton's organs, Jeffersonville police alleged in a probable cause affidavit filed in Clark County Circuit Court, which NBC News isn't publishing or linking to because of its graphic nature. Oberhansley was living in Indiana after having been released from a Utah prison in 2012 on a conviction for manslaughter in the 1998 shooting death of a previous girlfriend, Utah parole records show.

"After being a prosecutor for so long, you think you've seen everything. And this is one of those cases where I've never seen this," Clark County Prosecuting Attorney Steven Stewart told reporters after a court hearing Monday. Fighting back tears, a friend, Jennifer Osborne, told NBC station WAVE of Louisville: "We just don't know what to do next. We don't know what to do." Another friend, Tonya Graham Davalos, told the station: "I start thinking about everything, and it's so hard. ... I want everyone to think of [the family] and pray for them, because this is going to be really hard for them."

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What a sweetie.

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He's got form:

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=21188485

Man who killed girlfriend, shot mother released from prison Tuesday
By Andrew Wittenberg
July 9th, 2012 @ 10:09pm

SALT LAKE CITY — A tragic story of a man who killed his girlfriend, then shot his mother and attempted suicide turns another page on Tuesday.

It happened in December 1998: then 17-year-old Joseph Oberhansley shot his girlfriend multiple times. She had given birth to their child days before her death. He also shot his mother, then attempted suicide. He later plead guilty to the crimes.

A 30-year-old Oberhansley will walk out of jail Tuesday, having served 13 years of a possible 15-year sentence for the guilty plea.

Oberhansley's case has gone relatively silent in the 13 and a half years since his arrest and conviction for killing his girlfriend, nearly killing his mother and pulling the gun on himself. Attempts to reach out to family members were not returned, and an interview with Oberhansley himself was denied.

The Utah Board of Pardons and Parole released a statement Monday about the impending release.

"The decision to set the offender's parole date was made in 2004 following his original hearing," it reads in part. "He had taken full responsibility for his crimes, was programming at the prison, and was well-behaved."

Oberhansley's attorney said after his conviction that numerous tragedies in his family led to the assault.

At hearings for the case, Oberhansley's attorney argued his client had suffered through tragic deaths of his father and brother-in-law. And the brain injuries he sustained during the suicide attempt made him more calm.

Oberhansley will be a free man on Tuesday.