TOTAL ACT OF SAVAGERY
Houston man dismembered and burned Tynesha Stewart on BBQ grill.
Reprint from the HOUSTON CHRONICLE

This is one of the sickest stories we've come across in a while. Houston authorities have charged a man for murdering his girlfriend and burning her remains in a patio grill.

Authorities say 27-year-old Timothy Wayne Shepherd killed Tynesha Stewart, then burned her body on his patio grill at his apartment.

"We have determined through this investigation that the defendant dismembered Tynesha Stewart and ... he burned the body parts," Harris County Sheriff Tommy Thomas said. "There are no remaining body parts."

The announcement Saturday ended a debate in the Houston area about whether law-enforcement officials should launch a massive and expensive search of the area's overflowing landfills in hopes of finding Stewart's remains.

Officials first thought that the body had been disposed in a large commercial trash bin that had since been emptied.
Neighbors told the Houston Chronicle that Shepherd had two grills burning for days on end, and even called the fire department out on one occasion because the flames were so high.

“I just don’t know what to think about it,” said Louis Evans, whose balcony faces Shepherd’s in the quiet tree-lined enclave in northern Houston, he told the AP. “I thought he was a nice normal person. I guess you never know what your neighbors are doing.”

Authorities say Shepherd told firefighters he had everything under control at the time.
Shepherd, who is charged with murder, is being held on $250,000 bond in the Harris County Jail.

Billy Smith II: HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Tynesha Stewart was last seen March 15 and was reported missing March 19. The possibly dismembered remains of Texas A&M student Tynesha Stewart of Houston may be in several local landfills.

Billy Smith II: HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Timothy Wayne Shepherd , the 27-year-old man charged in the presumed death of a missing Texas A&M student, walks into court for a hearing at the Harris County Criminal Courthouse March 23.