A Michigan man suspected of stabbing, suffocating and dismembering his girlfriend explained to a newspaper that he met her via Facebook, and that he'd met his accomplices in a library just three days before.
Five people are charged in the death of Jessica Rae Sacco, 21, whose remains were found in late March, in a bathtub in the apartment she'd shared with Matthew Puccio, 25, her alleged killer. A Fenton, Michigan couple are also charged, along with two people from Urbana, Illinois, for failing to intervene and helping to move the victim's remains to be dumped in parts of southern Ohio and Kentucky.
Puccio claimed to have met Urbana residents Sharon Cook and Christopher Wright at a local library just days before the murder, and then was surpised when they'd offered to help after he'd told them about the crime, instead of notifying the police – "It shocked the hell out of me," Puccio said. "I figured they'd be the first to call the cops on me."
Puccio met Sacco on Facebook while he was living in Texas, and claimed that Sacco supported him after his former fiance left and took two of his children. Puccio explained that he and Sacco fought a lot, and that this escalated after the Michigan accomplices, Andrew Forney and his wife, moved into their house. Puccio stated, "They always argued, always fought, never got along with each other. Jess would blow up at them for no reason. Then Jess would blow up at me for things they were doing."
Puccio had claimed to be friends with Forney since childhood, but this contradicts police reports stating that Puccio and Sacco had recently met the Forneys online.
Facebook has long been a hub for various levels of crime. On the contrary, Facebook can be useful as an extension of ones employment resume, though even that aspect of it has gotten strange, with reports of employers demanding Facebook passwords to check their personal goings-on.
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