{"id":4873,"date":"2014-04-25T21:14:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T02:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2014-04-25T21:15:15","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T02:15:15","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-april-25-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4873","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For April 25, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Voodoo Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nA man accused of beheading a Topeka resident with a guitar string has pleaded innocent to premeditated first-degree murder. \u00a0Police say 29-year-old Paul Harris practiced voodoo and kept the head of 49-year-old James Gerety to talk to after the March or April 2011 killing. \u00a0The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Gerety&#8217;s partial remains were found a year later in Carbondale, 18 miles south of Topeka. \u00a0Harris&#8217; former girlfriend testified in March that he told her he used a guitar string to sever Gerety&#8217;s head. She said he disposed of the body but kept the head in a bag. A Topeka police officer said the ex-girlfriend told him Harris practiced voodoo and that he liked to talk to the head.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4876\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/voodoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4876\" class=\"wp-image-4876 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/voodoo-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"That Voodoo that you do: Paul Harris, looking the part.\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/voodoo-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/voodoo-620x468.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/voodoo.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">That Voodoo that you do: Paul Harris, looking the part.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4875\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gerety.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4875\" class=\"wp-image-4875 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gerety-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Gerety: the hapless victim.\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gerety-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gerety-620x457.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gerety.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Gerety: the hapless victim.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Culled From: The Associated Press<br \/>\nSubmitted by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghostscribe.wordpress.com\" target=\"&quot;_blank\">Aimee<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Nazis used piano wire on each other, this fella thought he&#8217;d go rock and roll. &#8211; Aimee<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Voodoo Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A man accused of beheading a Topeka resident with a guitar string has pleaded innocent to premeditated first-degree murder. \u00a0Police say 29-year-old Paul Harris practiced voodoo and kept the head of 49-year-old James Gerety to talk to after the March or April 2011 killing. \u00a0The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4881,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions\/4881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}