The Daily Mail UK
written by Staff
Monday August 20, 2012
A man staying with his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend at their home shot them repeatedly before dismembering their bodies with a chainsaw and throwing them into a canal, a court has heard.
Roger Bowling, 39, has gone on trial for the murder of Chris Hall, 42, and his fiance, Danielle Greenway, 32, last month in Detroit, Michigan.
Their body parts were pulled from a canal off the Detroit River days after they disappeared - and two weeks after they welcomed Bowling into their home.
Hall was shot six times, including twice in the head, and dismembered, while Greenway was shot once in the mouth before her head, hands and legs were sawed off and dumped in the canal, assistant Wayne County medical examiner Jeffrey Jentzen testified on Monday.
The couple were last seen on July 14. Three days later, a torso was spotted in the canal and the U.S. Coast Guard discovered the second torso in the river while investigating. Both were beheaded.
Both bodies had their hands sawed off at the wrists and their legs were cut off at the mid-thigh, Jentzen testified Monday in Allen Park District Court as Bowling sat stony-faced.
An angler later spotted legs and a saw submerged along the riverbank, not far from the canal.
'The cuts were very straight, uniform and clean,' Jentzen said. 'In my opinion, these would be consistent with some type of mechanical saw.'
Both died of gunshot wounds while they were inside the home, Jentzen said. Hall was shot twice in the head, once in the spine, twice in his left side and once in his left arm.
But Bowling's lawyer, Mark L. Brown, said there was no eyewitness testimony linking Bowling to the killings.
Greenway and Hall had allowed Bowling, who was Greenway's ex-boyfriend, to move into their home a few weeks prior to their deaths.
On Monday, a former friend told the court that after Bowling's relationship with Greenway ended around 2004, they would talk about 'how we could get rid of our problems ... get rid of our women'.
Robert Slick said Bowling said he would 'cut her up, put her in a cooler', then chain and strap the cooler up and 'dump it in the water'.
Hall's sister, Elaina Mullins, has also testified that she had quizzed Bowling about her brother's vacation, and he had said the couple went upstate on holiday, myfoxdetroit reported.
Yet she noticed Greenway's birth control was on the kitchen table and believed that part of the kitchen had been cleaned.
'My brother had been missing for four days. Every thought goes through your mind and possibility,' she said.
A neighbor, who also testified earlier this month, told the court she heard the sound of a saw around the time the couple disappeared, but could not confirm where the sound came from.
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