Murders of Joel and Lisa Guy

[4] The murder involved an elaborate plot to stab both parents, dismember and dissolve their remains, clean and burn down some of the house, as well as frame the father for the crime.

[5] They also discovered a backpack containing a notebook detailing the plan; plastic bins with both parents' torsos and dismembered limbs dissolving in an acid-based solution of corrosive chemicals described by prosecutors as a "diabolical stew of human remains";[2] the father's severed hands on the floor, and the mother's head in a pot on the stove which had been boiling for over a day at the time of discovery.

Lisa Guy (née Madere; August 8, 1961 – November 26, 2016) was a human resources accounts payable administrator at Jacobs Engineering in Oak Ridge.

[12] The prosecution at his trial dubbed the handwritten journal found in Guy Jr.'s backpack the "book of premeditation", as it contained detailed notes outlining his intent to murder and destroy the remains of his parents.

check to make sure there are bullets (last resort Body gives times of death → alibi Guy Jr. was caught on several surveillance cameras buying the supplies he would later use to murder and try to dissolve his parents.

He bought supplies for the murder as early as November 7, purchasing several items at an Ace Hardware in Napoleonville, including muriatic acid and food-grade hydrogen peroxide.

[17] On November 26, Guy Jr. attacked and killed his father with a knife in a second floor exercise room while his mother was out shopping for groceries at Walmart.

[17] Upon arriving home, Lisa Guy entered through the front door, dropped the groceries on the floor of the foyer,[18] proceeded upstairs, was attacked, then killed with a knife.

Both victims also had their arms and legs disarticulated, Guy Sr. at the waist and Lisa at the knees, and their limbs and torsos were placed in a bin full of chemicals to dissolve.

[2] At first, Knox County officers Steven Ballard and Jeremy McCord and others found a seemingly empty house on Goldenview Lane.

[21] Through the hole left by the missing back doorknob, they could sense heat and a strange smell emanating from the house, and from another angle, they could see the groceries.

[6][16] Investigators also discovered a note in an open suitcase with the name and an address of a Louisiana Ace Hardware store, along with a notation about sewer line cleaner.

Due to the volume of evidence found, KCSO's Forensics Unit worked throughout Monday night and into the following day processing the crime scene.