In a gruesome story out of Seattle, 37-year-old John Robert Charlton is being held on $2 million bail as the primary suspect in the murder and dismembering of 40-year-old mother of three, Ingrid Lyne.
The two met on and online dating site, and had been seeing each other for about a month before Lyne went missing. Charlton has a history of violence and crime, but is declaring his innocence by telling police that he was too drunk to remember anything that happened that night.
Investigators found different parts of Lyne's body dumped in a Seattle recycling bin, and found a 15-inch pruning saw, blood, and bits of flesh in her home bathroom.
An anonymous source told the Seattle Times that "significant" physical evidence had been found in Lyne's home. The source said investigators also found bags in her home that were "identical in color and size" to the one's that her body parts were found in.
Police have released information regarding Charlton's past, and it is filled with previous criminal offenses, including jail time in Utah and Montana. His own parents even filed a restraining order against him in 2006 stating that they feared for their own safety during his drunken outbursts.
The two met on an online dating site, though it is unclear which specific site Lyne was using when she met Charlton. The suspect was taken into custody when officials found abrasions on his forehead and left hand, despite a previous claim that he was not injured. Detectives also found injuries on his lip and chin, and scratch marks on his chest.
Charlton has told authorities that he could not recall what happened on the night of Lyne's murder, but claims that after the two returned from a Mariner's baseball game, that Lyne was acting "weird." He claims he is unsure how he left Lyne's house but spent the night sleeping on the sidewalks of Seattle.
Lyne's ex-husband was the first to report her missing, when he arrived at her house to find no one was home. He alerted Lyne's famiy and when her mother, Jorga Bass texted Charlton so ask when the last time he had seen her daughter he responded with, "911? What's going on? We went to the Mariners game last night but we didn't stay the night together because she has her kids today...not sure what she has told you about me and our relationship." Bass then told him that the police were looking to speak with Charlton, but she never got a response.
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