A man was charged Tuesday in the fatal stabbing and dismemberment of a person whose remains were found over five days in alleys close to the suspect’s home in Austin.
Judson Taylor, 56, was charged with felony counts of first-degree murder, dismembering a human body, concealment of a homicidal death and abuse of a corpse, according to Cook County court records.
Charging documents say Taylor repeatedly stabbed the male victim and then “knowingly dismembered, severed, separated, dissected, or mutilated” the body before hiding the parts. The victim was identified only as Kevin Perry.
City trash collectors initially came across the lower half of a man’s body last Wednesday on Washington Boulevard near Lamon Avenue, according to Chicago police and a law enforcement source.
Police later reported that remains were discovered Saturday in a trash can on Leclaire near Washington, just blocks from where the first discovery was made. A source said part of a torso was pulled from the garbage.
Then a day later, officers found human arms inside a dumpster near Washington and Lavergne, where Taylor lives.
Natalia Derevyanny, a spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner’s office, said the agency had opened separate investigations into some of the remains.
Taylor is expected in court for a bail hearing later Tuesday.
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