Police have charged a person with homicide after discovering a part of his roommate’s physique in a suitcase close to a cemetery by their condominium in Groton and the arrest warrant reveals grotesque particulars.
Donald Coffel, 68, of Groton, has been charged with the homicide of 58-year-old Suzanne Wormser.
In the course of the police investigation, Coffel admitted that he hit Wormser within the head with a baseball bat, saved her lifeless physique within the condominium they shared for a week-and-a-half, then he dismembered her and put physique components in two rubbish baggage, which he disposed of in two giant trash bins, in line with the arrest warrant.
It goe son to say that he put her torso in a suitcase and wheeled it over to the doorway of the Colonel Ledyard Cemetery.
A witness discovered the suitcase close to the cemetery on March 19 and officers found a lady’s torso once they opened the bag, in line with the warrant.
On April 9, the workplace of the chief health worker decided that Wormser’s dying was a murder.
The arrest warrant says that police decided that the suitcase was left by the cemetery between Feb. 13 and Feb. 18.
The FBI New Haven Area Workplace helped arrange a tip line within the case and a few of Wormser’s relations known as to report they thought she was the sufferer who police had discovered.
One member of the family mentioned she hadn’t heard from Wormser because the starting of the yr whereas one other had not heard from her since earlier than Christmas.
The arrest warrant mentioned that Coffel and Wormser shared an condominium on Allen Road in Groton, about 800 ft away from the place the suitcase was discovered.
Because the investigation progressed, a witness advised police that Coffel advised them that Wormser had stolen $200 value of crack cocaine from him and he was going to kill her, in line with the arrest warrant. Then, round two months later, Coffel mentioned they weren’t going to see the “lady” once more and she or he was gone.
The arrest warrant additionally goes into element on what investigators discovered within the condominium, together with a baseball bat, a handsaw, blood a rubbish bag with clothes and one other with Wormser’s purse, pockets, identification playing cards and different playing cards.
