Alofa Time?

ryyannon · June 17, 2006

As Clive wouldn't say, 'Gotta love those crazy Yanks!'

Sorry, but no pics available.

Posted on Fri, Jun. 16, 2006

Man charged after wife's head is found at accident scene

BY PATRICK ORR, HEATH DRUZIN, SANDRA FORESTER AND EMILY SIMNITT

Knight Ridder Newspapers

BOISE, Idaho - Alofa Time's violence tore two families apart, police say. The 50-year-old Nampa, Idaho, man is accused of beheading his estranged wife Thursday and hours later killing a mother and daughter in a horrific early morning car crash.

Time is in jail, charged with first-degree murder in the beheading and two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Samantha Murphy and her 4-year-old daughter Jaelynne Grimes, whose car Alofa Time slammed into on Franklin Road in West Boise. The severed head of Time's estranged wife, Theresa, was found at the crash scene; her body was later found at the couple's Nampa home.

Samantha Murphy was driving her children to day care Thursday morning, and then heading to work - just like any other day. But shortly before 6:30 a.m., a man driving a pickup truck east on Franklin Road swerved into the young family's westbound Nissan Sentra and hit them straight on.

A Boise police officer on his way to investigate another accident saw the truck driving erratically on Franklin Road, then witnessed the crash.

First responders tried to save Murphy, 36, and Jaelynne, 4, but it was too late. The mother and her daughter died at the scene, just a mile from their West Boise home. Another daughter, Syndee Murphy, 8, was taken to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center.

Officers then turned their attention to a disoriented Alofa Time and his severely damaged truck. One wheel was off the pickup's front, and broken beer bottles littered the road, along with a radio, some tools and other debris.

Then officers made a grisly discovery: A severed female head lay on Franklin Road about 30 feet from the truck.

The head had apparently been thrown from the truck, and the passenger side of the truck bed was spattered with blood.

Police knew the head didn't come from a body at the scene.

Once he was in custody, Time told Boise police that he was involved in a murder in Nampa.

"It's as bad as you can imagine," said Michael Webb, a deputy chief with the Boise Police Department, at a news conference three hours after the accident. "We have a horrific piece of evidence."

As Webb spoke, the bodies of the Samantha Murphy and her daughter had yet to be removed from the wreckage, and the head had just been removed from Franklin Road, which was closed to traffic for more than six hours.

The severed head, coupled with Time's statement to police, set off an investigation that led to the discovery of Time's estranged wife's headless body hours later in the couple's home.

By midday, police confirmed that they had found the body of 47-year-old Theresa N. Time sitting up in the driver's seat of a white passenger car parked in the garage.

"In my 22 years (in the coroner's office), this is the most brutal I've seen," Canyon County Coroner Vicki DeGeus-Morris said.

About 3:50 p.m., a tow truck removed the four-door white Hyundai Sonata from Time's garage. As the car was pulled away, two streaks of blood were visible on the driver's door.

Officials don't know if Theresa died before being decapitated. DeGeus-Morris said she didn't see any other wounds on the body, but the cause and time of death won't be determined until an autopsy, scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday. The coroner said it appears Theresa Time died Wednesday night.

Nampa police Lt. Leroy Forsman said late Thursday that Boise police found what might have been the murder weapon in the wreckage of the pickup, but he didn't say what it was.

The series of events leading up to Theresa Time's death and the subsequent tragic accident on Franklin Road began months before.

Theresa Time told police this spring that she and Alofa had been together for 4 1/2 years and married last fall. She told police they divorced in January, but a Statesman search of public records found no report of their divorce.

Johnkaz · June 17, 2006

Wow watch out for the nut cases out there.

Cheers Johnkaz.

Highflyingclive · June 17, 2006

As Clive wouldn't say, 'Gotta love those crazy Yanks!'

Yes... but not very much.
Danmyankees :-(

Edited June 17, 2006 by Highflyingclive

ryyannon · June 17, 2006

"Police knew the head didn't come from a body at the scene."

Come on, Clive

Where could you find entertainment like this in the UK?

gran · June 17, 2006

London?

ryyannon · June 17, 2006

London?

"The severed head, coupled with Time's statement to police, set off an investigation that led to the discovery of Time's estranged wife's headless body hours later in the couple's home.

By midday, police confirmed that they had found the body of 47-year-old Theresa N. Time sitting up in the driver's seat of a white passenger car parked in the garage."

Not since Henry VIII, Gran.