PORT HURON (WWJ) -- A Port Huron man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after he was convicted of murdering a man who mutilated body was found aboard a retired Navy vessel.
The Times Herald of Port Huron reports 44-year-old Reginald Cu-Nu Grasty was sentenced on Monday, May 16, in 31st Circuit Court in St. Clair County to life in prison without parole.
Port Huron Police said the dismembered body of 44-year-old William Michael Orlow was discovered in a freezer on the Grayfox Navy training ship in June of 2020, as it was docked about 68 miles northeast of Detroit
Following an investigation, a murder warrant for Grasty was issued that December. About a month later, agents with the U.S. Marshals Detroit Fugitive Apprehension Team found and arrested Grasty on Detroit's east side.
Court records show that on March 11 of this year, a jury found Grasty guilty on charges of open murder and disinterment and mutilation of a body.
It's believed that Grasty stabbed Orlow to death sometime between Jan. 11 and Jan. 17, 2020, on the Grayfox as it was docked at 60 Griswold St. in Port Huron, according to the Time Herald; although it's unclear why.
Calling the slaying "a most wicked murder," St. Clair Senior Asst. Prosecuting Attorney Paul Soderberg said at trial that Orlow's life "still had potential," and that Grasty took that potential away.
