Killer laughed after decapitating Army veteran, court is told
Daniel Wozniak told police that he laughed as he cut the head off the man he had shot to death a day earlier.
"I was actually smiling and laughing," Wozniak said in a videotaped interview with detectives that was shown last month in Orange County Superior Court. When one investigator asked why he laughed, Wozniak replied: "I don't know. I reached a point where I couldn't even believe I was doing this."
Prosecutors highlighted that and other gruesome scenarios Thursday as they closed their case against Wozniak, a 31-year-old community theater actor from Costa Mesa. Jurors convicted Wozniak on Dec. 16 of two counts of murder for the slayings of 26-year-old Army veteran Sam Herr and Herr's friend Juri "Julie" Kibuishi, 23, in 2010.
Prosecutors last month presented evidence that Wozniak shot Herr to death in a Los Alamitos theater on May 21, 2010, and then tried to cover it up. Wozniak used Herr's phone to lure Kibuishi to Herr's apartment, where Wozniak shot her twice in the head. The next day, prosecutors said, Wozniak ripped the pants off Kibuishi's body and propped her remains against Herr's bed to make it seem as though Herr had raped and killed her and fled.
Wozniak then returned to the theater, where he dismembered Herr's body with an ax and a saw before tossing some of the pieces into a Long Beach park, according to detectives' testimony and Wozniak's videotaped confession. Wozniak killed Herr so he could steal Herr's ATM card and access about $62,000 Herr had saved from his Army service.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-killer-laughed-after-decapitating-army-veteran-20160108-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-father-horror-dismembered-son-murder-20160104-story.html
That's a sick-assed fuck... It took five year just to convict him??
