Fatal Crash Reveals Severed Head
The severed head of a man’s wife flew from his pickup truck Thursday when he crashed into an oncoming car, killing the driver and her child, police said.
The investigation of the deadly wreck and the head, which landed on the road after the impact, led police to the decapitated body of 47-year-old Theresa N. Time in the garage of the home she shared with her husband, Alofa Time, said Nampa police Lt. LeRoy Forsman.
A Boise police officer was driving behind Time’s truck on a busy road when he noticed the man’s erratic driving and then saw him slam into the car, a police spokeswoman said.
Time, who was not injured, was being held on suspicion of second-degree murder in the deaths of Samantha Nina Murphy, 36, and her 4-year-old daughter, Jae Lynne Grimes, both of Boise. Murphy’s other daughter was injured.
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