here and photo courtesy Reading Eagle.
One brother is dead. The other brother is accused of killing him.
For Stephen J. Austin, 26, the end came early Friday after he was arrested during a traffic stop in Berks County, and authorities found the head and severed hands of his 22-year-old brother, Jonathan N. Austin, inside the red Jeep Cherokee, according to an arrest affidavit.
Austin was arrested on charges of killing and dismembering his younger brother and then scattering parts of his body in several locations, police said.
Police allege that the two brothers argued Thursday, and Stephen Austin struck his brother with a crowbar and then strangled him inside the garage of their mother's home in Upper Mount Bethel Township in Northampton County.
After the murder, police said, the defendant put his brother's body into the vehicle, drove to another point on the property about 200 yards away from the garage, and dismembered the body with a bow saw and hatchet.
Both tools and parts of the body were recovered at several places in Berks County, at French Creek State Park and in Maxatawny Township.
Why you do that?
Posted by: SETHLEVINETHEJEW | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 01:13 PM
what a very sad and very strange story. The husband is overwhelmed with care for his own family, rocky marriage, as well as his crazy Mom and loser younger brother. His wife later "intuitively" knew he did something to his brother but also that he was disposing of the body hither and yon so she calls cops who catch him literally "red handed." Chapter two should be interesting.
Posted by: CateKelly | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 01:15 PM
Darn,
And I thought that my brothers and I use to fight.
Posted by: justathought | Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 10:45 PM