The twisted Bronx man who allegedly killed his mother and chopped up her body reveled in the slaying by snapping a picture of himself holding her severed head, sources told The Post yesterday. Bahsid McLean, 23, pulled out a cellphone camera, posed in front of a bathroom mirror and snapped the gruesome photo of himself smirking while holding his mother’s head under his arm like a trophy, the sources said. 'CHOP SON' WEARS GARBAGE BAG TO COURT, ORDERED HELD WITHOUT BAIL Then McLean and a buddy stuffed his mom’s head in a bag, packed away the rest of her mutilated body, and dumped the parts with the neighborhood trash — in several locations, cops said. One of the four bags holding the remains of Tanya Byrd, 45, a home health aide and devoted mother of three, was found in Morrisania early Tuesday morning by a father and son walking their dog. Her body parts were wrapped in plastic, with some stuffed in luggage, cops said. Detectives were already disgusted by details of the case: the brutal bedroom stabbing, the blood drained in the bathroom, and the body hacked with a brand-new power saw. “He’s definitely sick,” a law-enforcement source said. “It’s a ghoulish act. This guy is so mentally defective to do that. That’s pretty outrageous. That’s hardcore s--t.” Byrd was killed probably late Sunday night or early Monday morning in her Westchester Avenue home, sources said. McLean asked a friend, William Harris, 26, to help him get rid of the body, sources said. Surveillance video picked up the two men in a Third Avenue hardware store in The Bronx, where they bought a power saw with cash, sources said. A blade and a box were found in the apartment McLean shared with his mother; the saw was found in Harris’ home, sources said. McLean was charged last night with second-degree murder, police said. Both men were charged with hindering prosecution and unlawful dissection of a human body. They blamed each other for Byrd’s death. Cops said McLean killed Byrd because she “wanted him to grow up and move out and be a man.” credits: nypost
definitely a sic fuck...thought it would be in china or something considering that most of these bizarre stories that u guys posted were from there....
In the history and annals of heinous crimes, the characterization of this one certainly rises to the fore. Thus, if there is any suspect that can be considered a candidate for capital punishment, ie. the death penalty, most would argue that this guy surely fits the bill. Sadly, New York is currently a state that looks very dimly upon the death penalty. Though it does have a death penalty statute on the books, it is considered to be so legally defective that for all intents, is functionally unworkable and cannot be implemented towards the actual execution of prisoners and was struck down by the New York State Court of Appeals. New York's legislature has refused to rewrite the law, leaving it, for all intents, legally moot. In 2007, New York's last death row prisoner had his sentence commuted to life without parole; the last New York State death sentence carried out was performed in 1963, when a murderer (Eddie Mays, who shot and killed a woman during an armed robbery) was sent to his reward via the electric chair. Should Mclean be eventually convicted of murder but likely due to his lack of capacity (as he was under the influence of or by some mental defect), I hope that whatever powers that be that will eventually rule on his life, never finds him sane enough to ever be released into society. The scariest part of this isn't that grim picture of him laughingly holding his own mother's head after he had just decapitated her; it's the possibility that one day, after he is found to have been 'successfully' medically treated (ie. put on medications, had therapy, counseling in anger management, et cetera) that he would be then deemed "no longer a threat" to society and thus released back into the public at large. THAT is even more frightening, IMHO.
It makes me wonder, if he isn't found mentally insane and competent enough to be sent to a federal prison, how would the inmates treat him. I know pedophiles are the ones treated the most like shit. And to kill your own mother is equally as terrible. But you're right. If he were to ever be let back out into society, no one would feel comfortable. I'm sure his friends are rather shaken up right now too. Never knew he had that in him.
He would unlikely ever go to US Federal prison, unless he violated Federal laws without a compelling or competing state interest; ie. the present or standing New York State charge of murder would usually take precedence. In other words, New York State gets first crack at him, since the crime occurred within New York State. However, if he was found not guilty of murder (for whatever reason, insanity, whatever) then if there is enough federal interest in the case, he could be charged with say, violating her civil rights. That is, preventing her from conducting herself with the basic rights as guaranteed by the US constitution. This type of federal scenario has historically been used to prosecute those that violate civil rights laws when states could or would not prosecute to the fullest extent of law using state charges, or when state juries skews a trial by nullification; ie. they know someone is guilty but refuse to convict him. For example, when racists murdered three rights workers in a famed national 1964 case* within the US state of Mississippi; federal prosecutors, with the compelling national interests of maintaining equal rights for all regardless of race, color, creed, et cetera; then took the case to charge those that violated the victim's civil rights. Note, they did not charge them with murder, which would have been a compelling state charge that usually takes precedence. Thus, in the case above, I doubt that NY would ever let Mclean get away with it. But even if he were to somehow escape justice in New York State, there isn't enough national reason, what is legally referred to as 'compelling interest', to prosecute him under federal laws. Moreover, if he were found not guilty of murder under state law, it would violate the legal rights principle of 'double jeopardy' to prosecute him again for the same murder charge under federal law. That is, a principle where a suspect cannot be charged with the same offense and then tried repeatedly. * Case was basis of famous movie, Mississippi Burning.
I don't know if its the media or what, but I feel this kind of cases happen more oftenly in the US than in any other countries.
Nah... Bizarre shit like this happens in China all the time, but there's very little publicity or fanfare by government design.
This is disgusting. People like this shouldn't be allowed in a mental institution either. They will never recover from it. Perhaps it's a bit harsh but capital punishment is worthwhile here.
