[Anyone] They sure can cook in New Orleans

[Mike in Taos]

A suicide note in the pocket of a man who jumped off the Omni Royal Orleans 
Hotel late Tuesday led police to the grisly scene of his girlfriend's 
murder, where they found her charred head in a pot on the stove, her legs 
and arms baked in the oven and the rest of her dismembered body in a trash 
bag in the refrigerator, according to police and the couple's landlord.

A source familiar with the investigation said that detectives found two pots 
on the stove, one containing a the victim's head and the other her hands and 
feet. Next to the pot containing the head were carrots and potatoes that had 
been cut up, but none had been placed in the pots.

In the oven were turkey-basting trays containing human legs and arms, the 
source said. At least one of the pans had seasoning sprinkled on the human 
remains, the source said.
At an afternoon news conference, Chief of Detectives Anthony Cannatella said 
there was no evidence of cannibalism on the scene, and an autopsy on Bowen, 
done some 13 days after he claimed to have committed the murder, showed no 
evidence of body parts in his system.

But what Bowen did after he killed Hall was anything but quick. He claimed 
in his note to have sexually violated the body several times, eventually 
passing out in a drunken stupor on the futon next to his girlfriend's 
corpse. The next day, after he got off work delivering groceries, Bowen 
moved the body to the bathroom tub and dismembered her remains with a 
handsaw and knife.An autopsy conducted on Wednesday confirmed that Hall was 
strangled and dismembered after her death, police said.

"He appeared to clean up the bathroom a lot after he did it," one officer 
said.

Directed by a spray-painted note on the wall, police found the victim's head 
burned beyond recognition in a pot on top of the stove. Her legs and arms 
were in the same condition in pans inside the oven, police said. In his 
note, Bowen wrote that he put her feet and hands in pots of water on the 
stove burners.

On Oct. 9, according to his letter, Bowen came home from work andagain began 
to dismember Hall's body, in an apartment where he'd set the air 
conditioning at a frigid 60 degrees.

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