Murders of Joel and Lisa Guy

The prosecution at his trial dubbed the handwritten journal found in Guy's backpack the "book of premeditation", as it contained detailed notes outlining his intent to murder and destroy the remains of his parents.[14]

One page includes the following:[15]

                                                                   *get carving knives

• Get killing knives - quiet - multiple         to make small pieces
• Get sledgehammer - crush bones
• Bring blender and food grinder - grind meat
• get bleach - denature proteins
• get plastic bin for denaturation process
• does not matter where they're killed

just get rid of bloody spots to prevent

evidence of time of death (not the mattress or couches)

• get rid of bodies inside house - their and

      my DNA already there

• open up doggie door to provide entryway        he needs to be blamed,
• flush chunks down toilet (not garbage             not intruder

      disposal)

• get plastic sheeting for disposal process
• get hollow point bullets just in case will

      be seen buying bullets; just use computer room gun →

      check to make sure there are bullets (last resort

• He's not alive to claim her half of the insurance

      money → all mine ($500,000)

• flood the house, covers up forensic evidence
• turn heater up as high as it goes → speeds decomposition.
• bleach reacts with luminol just like blood → douse area

      with bleach

• big sprayer
• lye
• trash compactor?

      Body gives times of death → alibi

• Don't have to get rid of body if there is no forensic evidence

      on the body.

• HIS FINGERPRINTS AND DNA

Guy was caught on several surveillance cameras buying the supplies he would later use to murder and try to dissolve his parents.[16] He used cash for every transaction, and self checkout most of the time. He bought supplies for the murder as early as November 7, buying several items at an Ace Hardware in Napoleonville including muriatic acid and food-grade hydrogen peroxide. On the 18th at Home Depot he can be seen buying the bleach sprayer, extension cords, and a timer.[3] At Academy Sports on November 19, he is seen buying a Marine-style Ka-Bar knife. On November 21, he can be seen at a Knoxville Walmart buying a plastic blue tote large enough for the dismembered bodies to dissolve in.[17]

Lisa Guy was also caught on surveillance footage shortly before her murder, buying supplies at Walmart at approximately 12:15 p.m.[18]

On November 26, Guy attacked his father with a knife in a second floor exercise room while his mother was out shopping for groceries at Wal-Mart. The scene showed evidence of a struggle, with torn blinds, blood on the wall and corner, and an overturned Bowflex machine.[18] Guy Sr.'s clothes were cut from his dead body and left near where he was killed. Two large knives lay nearby, and his bloodied pack of cigarettes lay on top of the clothes pile.

Lisa Guy came home through the front door, dropped the groceries on the floor of the foyer,[19] and proceeded up the stairs, and when she got to the top was attacked with a knife.[18] Nine of her ribs were severed.[20] Her clothes were then cut from her body and left near where she was killed, and by several tubs of sewer line cleaner.

Guy Sr.'s hands were removed at the wrists and left nearby on the floor of the exercise room. Mrs. Guy's head was removed, carried down the stairs, put in a pot on the stove and heated. At trial the forensic examiner testified her head was not just cut but broken off with force. Both victims also had their arms and legs disarticulated - Guy Sr. at the waist, and Mrs. Guy at the knees. Their limbs and torso were then placed each in a bin full of chemicals to dissolve their bodies. Each body had a large gash inflicted after death so that the chemicals would quicker seep into the body's main cavity.[20]

Guy Jr. sustained several cuts to his hands in the assault on his father, including a deep cut to his left thumb. At approximately 3:30 p. m. Guy Jr. is seen in Wal-Mart's first aid section, getting bandages and ointment for the wounds he received to his hands. He also purchased isopropyl alcohol and hydrogen peroxide.[13]

On Sunday, Guy drove back to Baton Rouge to have his wounds treated at the student clinic.[21]

Knox County officers Steven Ballard and Jeremy McCord and others first found a seemingly empty house at 11434 Goldenview Lane. The house was for sale, yet there was no real-estate lock on the front door. They soon discovered the back door's doorknob had been removed and put on the front door. They could see groceries on the floor including perishable items, such as bacon, sausage and ice cream, through the front door.[22] Through the remaining hole in the back door, they could sense heat and a strange smell emanating from the house, and from another angle they could see the groceries. One of the officers entered one of the homeowner's cars and pressed a garage door opener, which allowed the police to access the house.[22]

They first discovered a table with the Guy's wallets and a sledgehammer on top, and then another with long guns. A pot was also boiling on the stove downstairs, and the stove was left on. At the bottom of the stairs were the grocery items seen earlier. They then ascended the stairs, hearing an intermittently barking dog. They then could see Joel Guy Sr.'s dismembered hands on the floor by looking down a hallway, and discovered the dismembered corpses in solution in a bathroom.[22]

Among other items investigators found upstairs were sewer line cleaner, a bag of baking soda, Liquid Fire, muriatic acid, drain opener, lye, food-grade hydrogen peroxide, bleach and a bleach sprayer.[23] Investigators also discovered a note in an open suitcase that depicted the name and Louisiana address of an Ace Hardware Store, along with a notation about sewer line cleaner.[23]

The toxic fluid required bio-hazard equipment for removal by the KCSO Hazmat Team, and due to the volume of evidence in such a disturbing scene, KCSO’s Forensics Unit worked throughout the night Monday and into the following day processing the crime scene.[13]

The FBI, the Knox County Sheriff's Office and the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office placed Guy Jr. under surveillance for a few days and apprehended him on Tuesday the 29th, in the parking lot of his Baton Rouge apartment complex on Nicholson Drive, when he tried to get into his 2006 Hyundai Sonata.[24]

When Guy's car was opened in Louisiana, he had a meat grinder in the trunk.[25] The search of Guy's apartment in Louisiana provided additional receipts, but was later ruled unconstitutional by Judge Steve Sword.