As the details are disturbing, nothing could have prepared cops for the horrific images they were about to witness when they were summoned to a residence in Pennsylvania to check on the resident’s wellbeing. And there is even more “disturbing” as the resident told police in his discovery in his dad’s bed.
Just before 9 a.m. on a typical day on August 2021, a police officer responding to the report went to Meshey’s home, a small apartment in the 200 block of West Strawberry Street, to check on their family member’s wellbeing, after they received a call from a relative who was worried about the safety and mental health of their family member. Police were originally alerted to Donald Meshey Jr., a 32-year-old Lancaster, Pennsylvania man.
Meshey allegedly told the woman who called the police that he had a cadaver on a bed and a severed head in his freezer. She told the police that she had personally examined the house and had seen what she thought was the head of a family member in the freezer but even though the concerned family member had given the police a grim warning, sadly, nothing could have prepared the responding officer for what they were about to see.
After the responding officer requested assistance, Meshey was then escorted to the Lancaster City Police Station to be questioned by detectives at the point where Meshey had taken a white dinner plate out of the freezer and handed it to the cop with a human head on it. After the officer knocked on the door and questioned him; Meshey was reportedly escorted by the responding officer to the kitchen in his flat where he removed what he claimed was part of a “cadaver doll” from the freezer, the WGAL reported.
During the police interview, Meshey explained that early in the previous morning, he found a “cadaver doll” in his father’s bedroom, he told detectives that he had made a “disturbing” discovery in his dad’s bed and things were about to become even stranger when Meshey informed the police that with an eight- or nine-inch knife, he admitted to stabbing the “cadaver doll,” he said that he attacked the “doll, stabbing in the chest for two to three minutes.
In the court documents, Meshey allegedly stabbed the so-called “doll” and then used a hand saw to cut the body into pieces. He then allegedly put the dismembered body parts, such as the arms, legs, and head, in rubbish bags and hid them in the basement. He took the head from the cellar the next morning and placed it in the kitchen freezer, according to the authorities.
The torso was then stuffed in a garbage bag and put into a footlocker, after using a dolly to move the footlocker outside and into a car, Donald Meshey Jr. In the Daily Mail reports, “pieces of the dismembered body” were discovered “all over the house” by the time police responded to the call and carried out the welfare check.
The head was later determined to be human, and the coroner determined that it belonged to the suspect’s father, 67-year-old Donald Meshey, who had suffered multiple stab wounds before being dismembered. Donald Meshey Jr. was detained for the murder and dismemberment of his father. He was charged with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence when he was lodged in the Lancaster County Prison.
As Lancaster Online reported, about six months before Meeshey killed his father, “He was previously charged with harassment and pleaded guilty May 5 before District Judge Mary Sponaugle, as Meshey pushed a woman into some boxes, causing her minor injuries, at a home in Lancaster Township. “ Sadly, this wasn’t his first run-in with the law. “Instead of paying a $50 fine and around $163 in court expenses, Sponaugle offered Meshey the chance to enroll in anger management treatment and complete six classes.”
Donald Meshey Jr. either missed the anger management option or failed to complete it, choosing instead to pay the fines. It seems awfully bad for his father, who was characterized as “always pleasant” and “the sweetest guy,” and who may still be alive if his son had been made to receive the mental health treatment he need rather than a slap on the wrist in the form of a modest fee. Donald Meshey Jr. has been described as having “something of a temper” and having “feathers that may be ruffled a little easily.”
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Sources: Taphaps, Lancasteronline, Meaww, Wgal
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