ELBRIDGE - An Elbridge man charged with murdering his parents had dismembered his father's body in an attempt to fit it into a septic tank, police said.
Chet Susslin / The Citizen
Investigators Joe Harriger, left, and Musco Millner, of the Forensic Identification Unit, lean over a dug up septic tank at the scene of a double homicide in the town of Elbridge on Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators Joe Harriger, left, and Musco Millner, of the Forensic Identification Unit, lean over a dug up septic tank at the scene of a double homicide in the town of Elbridge on Wednesday afternoon.
State police on Wednesday said that they were first alerted to the crime scene when William Kirby, a nephew of Joseph M. Bisesi Jr. and Jo Ellen Bisesi of 5879 Sandbank Road, Elbridge, came to the state police barracks in Elbridge to say that he had found a human torso sticking out of a pipe at their home.
Police said Kirby had gone to the home after talking with the couple's daughter, Gina Bisesi, who said she hadn't been able to contact her parents since Sunday morning. Police said Joseph M. Bisesi III, 27, killed his parents Sunday night and later put his mother's body in the septic tank. He dismembered his father's body, police said, and tried to hide his body, as well.
State Police Capt. Jeff Raub on Wednesday said that Joseph M. Bisesi III, 27, has been charged with first-degree murder, and had been remanded without bail to the Onondaga County Public Safety building after his arraignment.
During the initial investigation, police determined that the younger Bisesi, who was living with his parents, and his mother's Jeep Liberty were unaccounted for, police said.
Shortly after a multi-county alert was issued for the Jeep and the missing man, Bisesi turned himself in to the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office, and police later determined that there was enough evidence to charge Bisesi with first-degree murder.
The official cause of the parent's death would not be released until the autopsy was completed, officials said.
Onondaga Chief Assistant District Attorney Christine Garvey said additional charges may also be filed pending the outcome of a grand jury hearing. If Bisesi were convicted of murdering his parents, he could face up to life in prison without parole.
While the residents of the of the quiet and secluded neighborhood, located about two miles north of the state police's Elbridge barracks off Route 5, had never noticed any prior problems within the family, police said that troopers had responded to at least one previous incident at the home but did not elaborate.
Ann Robedee, a neighbor, said that the area's foliage was so thick that she couldn't see or hear her neighbors, even if they lived right across the street.
“Where we are, you don't see your neighbors,” Robedee said. “I didn't know anything happened until (Tuesday) afternoon when all the police cars showed up. I thought something bad like an accident or a fire happened. They were good neighbors. They were never a problem for us and hopefully we were never a problem for them.”
Staff writer Nate Robson can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 248 or nathan.robson@lee.net
Police said Kirby had gone to the home after talking with the couple's daughter, Gina Bisesi, who said she hadn't been able to contact her parents since Sunday morning. Police said Joseph M. Bisesi III, 27, killed his parents Sunday night and later put his mother's body in the septic tank. He dismembered his father's body, police said, and tried to hide his body, as well.
State Police Capt. Jeff Raub on Wednesday said that Joseph M. Bisesi III, 27, has been charged with first-degree murder, and had been remanded without bail to the Onondaga County Public Safety building after his arraignment.
During the initial investigation, police determined that the younger Bisesi, who was living with his parents, and his mother's Jeep Liberty were unaccounted for, police said.
Shortly after a multi-county alert was issued for the Jeep and the missing man, Bisesi turned himself in to the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office, and police later determined that there was enough evidence to charge Bisesi with first-degree murder.
The official cause of the parent's death would not be released until the autopsy was completed, officials said.
Onondaga Chief Assistant District Attorney Christine Garvey said additional charges may also be filed pending the outcome of a grand jury hearing. If Bisesi were convicted of murdering his parents, he could face up to life in prison without parole.
While the residents of the of the quiet and secluded neighborhood, located about two miles north of the state police's Elbridge barracks off Route 5, had never noticed any prior problems within the family, police said that troopers had responded to at least one previous incident at the home but did not elaborate.
Ann Robedee, a neighbor, said that the area's foliage was so thick that she couldn't see or hear her neighbors, even if they lived right across the street.
“Where we are, you don't see your neighbors,” Robedee said. “I didn't know anything happened until (Tuesday) afternoon when all the police cars showed up. I thought something bad like an accident or a fire happened. They were good neighbors. They were never a problem for us and hopefully we were never a problem for them.”
Staff writer Nate Robson can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 248 or nathan.robson@lee.net
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