San Diego
A judge Monday ordered a Clairemont man who once was on death row in Texas to stand trial in the bizarre slaying of a mechanic whose body was dismembered.
Kenneth Stogsdill, 45, will be arraigned March 31 in Superior Court in the death of Kenneth Beachell, 29, whose head and body parts washed ashore in Mission Bay on Sept. 11.
During the four-day preliminary hearing, knives, saws and axes collected from Stogsdill’s Balboa Avenue apartment were admitted into evidence. Human tissue was found in Stogsdill’s apartment. The motive has not been disclosed. The victim apparently met Stogsdill at a Pacific Beach bar.
Stogsdill once was convicted of murder in a similar case in Texas and sentenced to death, but an appeals court overturned his conviction and he was released.
His bail in San Diego is set at $1 million.
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