Pennsylvania man was caught dismembering his girlfriend’s body after police reported to their home over a domestic dispute call.
Nicholas Scurria, 32, has been charged with first-degree murder, third-degree murder, a weapons charge and abuse of a corpse after it was found that he killed his girlfriend. After a neighbor reported a domestic dispute at around 4:45 a.m., officers from Clifton Heights were sent to an apartment that belonged to the female victim. Scurria lived with her, but the two weren’t together, says Scurria.
People reports one caller said they “woke up to loud screaming in the neighboring apartment and also heard banging. It became quiet and [they] heard sawing-like sounds and the gathering or shifting of plastic materials.” When they arrived, police “walked around the apartment to the north side and observed from outside the bedroom window a white male … seated on a mattress … cutting/sawing a female victim’s left leg with a machete.” Police say the victim’s head was on the floor when they got to the scene.
After taking Scurria into custody, he allegedly told officers his girlfriend “tried to cut [his] balls off. In an affidavit, Scurria says he knocked her out before cutting up her body.
“The defendant stated that during the argument, he knocked the victim unconscious after repeatedly striking her in the head,” the affidavit reads. “The defendant admitted he attempted to get rid of the evidence by dismembering various parts of the victim’s body.”
Scurria has pleaded guilty to all charges.
