MARIETTA, Ga. A drunken driver
hit a telephone pole support wire that decapitated his
passenger, then drove 12 miles home and slept in his
bloody clothes, leaving the headless body in his truck,
police said.
A neighbor walking with his young daughter
Sunday morning discovered Daniel Brohm's headless corpse
in the truck in John Kemper Hutcherson's driveway and
called authorities, said Cpl. Dana Pierce, county police
spokesman.
Officers found Hutcherson asleep inside
his home, drunk, his clothes bloody, and later found
Brohm's severed head at the site of the accident.
"It's hard for one to imagine that
you would drive miles from a crash site to your home,
turning in various directions, and yet not know what
has happened to a passenger sitting next to you,"
Pierce said.
Hutcherson, 21, was charged with vehicular
homicide, driving under the influence and failure to
stop at an accident with death or injury. He was jailed
on a $100,000 bond.
Police said Hutcherson and Brohm, friends
since high school, were drinking at a bar Saturday night
and left after Brohm said he felt sick.
Brohm, 23, apparently was leaning out
of the window when Hutcherson hit the support wire about
a mile and a half from the bar, but police did not know
why. (Tony's
note: Gee, do you think maybe he was puking?) |