A person who was accused of killing and dismembering his roommate in Groton and leaving a part of her physique in a suitcase close to a cemetery by their house has died.
Donald Coffel, 68, of Groton, died on Friday on the Corrigan Correctional Middle, in keeping with the Connecticut Division of Correction.
They stated his loss of life will not be thought of suspicious and the health worker will decide the reason for his loss of life.
Coffel was charged with the homicide of 58-year-old Suzanne Wormser.
At one level when police responded to the house in February, Coffel informed them he was in a whole lot of ache from most cancers, in keeping with the arrest warrant.
Through the police investigation, Coffel admitted that he hit Wormser within the head with a baseball bat, stored her lifeless physique within the house 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 massive trash bins, in keeping with the warrant for his arrest.
It went on 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.
On April 9, the workplace of the chief health worker decided that Wormser’s loss of life was a murder.
The arrest warrant for Coffel says police decided that the suitcase was left by the cemetery between Feb. 13 and Feb. 18.
Coffel, who beforehand lived within the space left the state, returned and Wormser was letting him keep together with her in an house on Allen Road in Groton, about 800 ft away from the place her stays can be present in a suitcase. in keeping with the warrant.
Because the investigation progressed, a witness informed police that Coffel informed them that Wormser had stolen $200 value of crack cocaine from him and he was going to kill her, in keeping with the arrest warrant. Then, round two months later, Coffel informed the witness they weren’t going to see the “lady” once more and he or she was gone.
Coffel was being held on $1 million bond and made his final court docket look just about due to well being points.
