SEX delinquent caught after allegedly frying hands and feet – found after a U-haul was searched while searching for a missing masseuse.
The driver allegedly got out of the truck and told Philadelphia Police, “I don’t want anything to do with this, and there’s a body in the back. “
Pervert Taray Herring, 47, who is a registered sex offender, was accused with burglary and abuse of a corpse in relation to the dismembered body.
Although police still have not identified the victim, neighbors told reporters they believe masseur Peter Gerold, 70, is missing.
Philadelphia cream Police spokesman Sgt Eric Gripp said: “The vehicle stopped and as soon as the police got out of the car the driver of the U-Haul just got out and said: this, ‘ and ‘there is a body in the back’. ”
Gripp added that the driver “came out with his hands up and said, ‘I didn’t, it wasn’t me. I was paid to move a body ”. “
The unidentified motorist and passenger – identified as Herring – were arrested, with the driver later released after questioning.
After speaking to Herring, detectives searched trash cans near a shopping mall and found black trash bags containing severed hands, feet and legs, a source told the Philadelphia Inquirer.
These were less than a third of a mile from the first crime scene in Somerton, reports Subway.
Police spokeswoman Cpl Jasmine Reilly said the medical examiner’s office still confirmed the identity of the deceased.
But the remains were compatible with an adult male, she confirmed to reporters.
The person’s hands and feet had been fried, a police source told the Inquirer.
The bizarre case began with the report of an alleged burglary at the home of Peter Gerold, 70, in the Somerton area, last week.
The registered massage therapist was reported missing on Wednesday after someone living outside Pennsylvania requested a welfare check because they feared they would be out of contact with him “for a while,” the New York reports. Post.
Although the cops visited his home, they did not enter as there was nothing suspicious at this point, according to media. Neighbors said they noticed Gerold’s cars were missing.
Police spokesman Cpl Jasmine Reilly later said, “We’re not just knocking on people’s doors – there has to be a reason we’re going. “
Then on Thursday they were investigating a complaint about an ongoing burglary in Somerton.
And they followed a U-Haul truck that pulled away from the property in the Somerton neighborhood.
After arresting the driver, they found the dismembered body in a garbage bag in the back of the truck. A weapon was also found.
Cops later took 63 exotic animals, including parrots and bearded dragons, from Gerold’s house on Friday after executing a search warrant.
Neighbors told CBSN Philly they hadn’t seen him for about a week and worried someone had taken advantage of the kindness.
“He’s helped a lot of people, so you know it’s someone he probably helped at one point that came back and did that to him,” a neighbor told the broadcaster.
CBSN says it’s not clear whether Herring and Gerold knew each other.
Police sources told Fox 29 they recovered remains from the garage as well as items to compare for DNA.
“It sounds like something out of a movie or something,” neighbor Tiffany McLean told CBSN, adding, “I can’t really, I always try to process it myself. “
The Inquirer reported that Herring is a registered sex offender and was arrested in May 2020 on burglary, criminal trespassing, theft and other charges.
He was released in June and has not yet been the subject of a preliminary hearing, he adds.
Herring’s preliminary hearing regarding the burglary and abuse of a corpse is scheduled for March 1, reports CBSN.
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