![]() ![]() And yet, as testimony from the trial indicated this week, the alleged cannibal initially attempted to maintain that he hadn’t seen Blanton in days. Sun reports that when he was arrested, Oberhansley had blood on his knuckles and had a bloody knife on him. They were also shown a taped police interview during which Oberhansley confessed that he “ate her heart and it’s part of me now.” Sure enough, detectives found Blanton’s DNA in a frying pan and on utensils at the murder scene. Jurors were compelled to digest reports that most of Blanton’s heart and brain had been removed. Wednesday’s testimony at the Indiana trial against the alleged cannibal was particularly horrifying. Before the detective could fully respond to a question regarding whether rape victims are known to shower or wash themselves after a sexual assault, Obehansley loudly objected, saying that the man on the stand was speculating. Thursday’s outburst from the alleged cannibal occurred as an Indiana detective was providing testimony to the trial. Joseph Oberhansley: Jury in Clark County murder trial watches police interrogationĪs juries learned that Blanton’s home was covered in blood the day she was found dead, another of Oberhansley’s defense attorneys, Bart Betteau, has urged them to remain circumspect throughout the trial’s testimony alleging that he committed heinous acts of rape, murder and cannibalism.Įarlier this week, the trial heard from a friend of Blanton who said she confided that Oberhansley had raped her a number of days before her death. “There’s some weird energy that comes out of that house that he hates actually.”įor the first time, the jury saw what Blanton’s house looked like the day she was allegedly killed by her ex-boyfriend, Joseph Oberhansley. “When I walk my dog by that house, he’s freaked out by it,” Nick Dittmeier said at the trial. He posited that the two had expressed a testimonial of their enduringly copacetic relationship by engaging in consensual sex, hence the presence of his semen at the crime scene.Įarlier in the high-stakes trial, Indiana jurors heard testimony from a neighbor of the home in which Oberhansley allegedly murdered and cannibalized Blanton, WAVE 3 News reports. Westerfeld insisted at the Indiana trial that the accused cannibal had remained in a consensual relationship and cohabitated with Blanton through the day of her death. Oberhansley’s defense attorney, Brent Westerfeld, pushed back hard against the prosecution’s consideration of his seminal fluid as evidence indicating he had raped Blanton. Testimony from analyst Nicole Hoffman at the Indiana trial indicated that the accused cannibal’s DNA was found on a number of pieces of evidence connected to Blanton and her tragic demise. Accused Indiana cannibal Joseph Oberhansley takes stand in his own murder trial Oberhansley spoke out twice Thursday, saying the testimony of a former Jeffersonville Detective was speculation. The trial - Oberhansley’s second for these charges, given that the first ended in a mistrial on its opening day - began on Monday, and by Thursday the accused Indiana cannibal had already interrupted testimony from witnesses twice. He has been charged with burglary, sexual assault, murder and with charges related to eating portions of his victim.Īs the Indiana jury is hearing from witness testimony during the unsettlingly gruesome trial, Oberhansley allegedly committed shocking acts of cannibalism: disemboweling Blanton and cooking and eating some of her organs before the police had the chance to cuff him. Oberhansley, 39, is believed to have raped and murdered his former girlfriend, Tammy Jo Blanton, 46, in a jealous rage inside her home in Jeffersonville, Indiana, during the early morning hours of September 11, 2014. Only a few days into the Indiana trial of accused rapist, murderer and cannibal Joseph Oberhansley, the judge had to clear the courtroom after the defendant interrupted witness testimony with the outbursts for which he’s notorious given his erratic behavior during previous court appearances, WDRB reports. ![]()
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