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Canadian guilty of dismembering lover


A Winnipeg man was found guilty on Tuesday of murdering and dismembering a man he picked up at a bar, then stacking his body parts in his downtown hotel room bathtub.

Sydney Teerhuis-Moar, 39, admitted to the crime in the western Canadian metropolis, but argued at trial he was too intoxicated in·tox·i·cate  
v. in·tox·i·cat·ed, in·tox·i·cat·ing, in·tox·i·cates

v.tr.
1. To stupefy or excite by the action of a chemical substance such as alcohol.

2.
 to remember murdering Robin Greene, hoping for a lighter sentence.

"How drunk does a man have to be to do this to another human being?" retorted prosecutor Sheila Leinburd. "The killing was merciless."

The court heard Teerhuis-Moar stabbed the victim 68 times in July 2003, cut off his head and penis, plucked pluck  
v. plucked, pluck·ing, plucks

v.tr.
1. To remove or detach by grasping and pulling abruptly with the fingers; pick: pluck a flower; pluck feathers from a chicken.
 out one of Greene's eyes, removed his internal organs and cut the remaining torso into eight pieces.

In letters to a prospective author, he also suggested he had committed necrophilia necrophilia /nec·ro·phil·ia/ (nek?ro-fil´e-ah) sexual attraction to or sexual contact with dead bodies.

nec·ro·phil·i·a
n.
1.
.

Teerhuis-Moar is to be sentenced on Friday.

During the trial, local media reported that a necklace necklace: see jewelry.  belonging to American actress Susan Sarandon Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Biography
Early life
Sarandon, the eldest of nine children, was born Susan Abigail Tomalin
 had been found in Teerhuis-Moar's hotel room, but it was never dealt with by the court.

The necklace was said to have been stolen from the set of Sarandon's movie "Shall We Dance," which was filming in the city at the time of the murder.
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