Joel Guy Sr (61) and Lisa Guy Jr (55) were getting ready to retire and sell their Knoxville, TN home in the month of November in 2016. They had a buyer for the home, and had started to pack up their belongings in the house. While they were getting ready to move, they had their Thanksgiving family gathering at their home on Nov 23, 2016, with one of their daughters, Michelle Tyler, her two young sons, and the Guy’s only son, then 28 year old Joel Michael Guy Jr (called Joel Michael by family), who traveled from Baton Rouge. He had dropped out of LSU there in 2015. He would be staying a couple days at his parent’s home for Thanksgiving. This would be the last holiday at the home before Joel Sr and Lisa moved. While both victims were retired, Lisa Guy continued to work only to support her only son, Joel Michael.
2 days after Thanksgiving, on November 26, Joel Michael put a horrible, evil plan into action.
While his unsuspecting mother was out shopping the morning of Nov. 26 at a nearby Walmart, Joel Michael ambushed and stabbed his father to death in the upstairs exercise room, inflicting more than 40 stab wounds on Joel Sr. The amount of blood in the room shows it was a violent, chaotic attack, and that Joel Guy Sr. must have put up a fight. You can see broken window blinds and a nearby torn duvet cover. This is a horrific scene, especially when you look closely at the sheer amount of wild blood spatter everywhere. Joel Sr. fought for his life.
Lisa Guy out shopping at Walmart at around 12:15. This is the last known footage of Lisa Guy alive.
When Lisa Guy came home around 12:30 PM from Walmart, she brought in all the groceries, but they were left untouched in their bags just inside the front door in the foyer. Somehow she was lured upstairs, where she was attacked and stabbed over 30 times at the top of the stairs. Heavy blood soaking and spatter is everywhere on the walls and on the stairs.
The scene where Lisa Guy was ambushed and stabbed to death. Her clothing is in a pile and buckets of drain cleaner sit next to a large bloodstain on the floor.
Joel Michael then began to dismember the bodies. Joel Guy Sr.’s hands were severed, and his arms were severed at the shoulder blade. His legs were removed at the hip and his right foot was removed. His hands were left in the exercise room on the floor. Lisa Guy’s legs were cut off below the knee and her arms, at the shoulder. Her head was removed. Joel Michael put his parent’s body parts in two large blue Rubbermaid type tubs full of chemicals to dissolve the remains, and, most disturbing of all, he put his mother’s severed head in a large covered cooking pot on the stove with some kind of liquid and turned the heat on to simmer.
In spite of all this, Joel Michael could not finish the job he had started because of his injuries, and possibly because he did not anticipate how much work carrying out this murder would be. On Sunday, Nov 27th, he left the house for Baton Rouge, LA, to get his wounds treated at LSU’s clinic. His parent’s remains were still in the chemicals, there were items all over the house related to the dismemberment and disposal of remains. Blood was still all over, and the stove with the pot remained on. The heat in the house was turned up as high as possible.
This was how the scene stayed until Nov 28, when police performed a welfare check and entered the home.
On Nov 28, the alarm was raised. Lisa Guy failed to show up for her job in the accounting department of Jacobs Engineering in Oak Ridge. This was extremely unlike Lisa.
Her boss, Jennifer Whitehead, testified that she called Lisa Guy repeatedly, but got no answer. She said she knew something was wrong, so she called 911 and asked deputies to do a welfare check.
Knox County Sheriff’s Office Detective Jeremy McCord described the scene inside the couple’s home as the “most horrific” thing he’d ever seen. McCord was one of the deputies who conducted the welfare check that day.
The detective found both of the Guys' vehicles in the driveway. Through the glass on the front door, he could see groceries, including perishable items, on the floor of the foyer.
Outside the back door, which was missing a doorknob, he could feel heat emanating from the house, along with a “really odd chemical smell.”
He and fellow deputies found a garage door opener in one of the couple’s cars and used it to gain access to the attached garage. When he opened the door leading into the home, the odor hit him. “The smell is never going to leave me,” McCord said.
Lisa Guy's head was found in the pot on the stove, that was simmering in chemicals for 2 days straight.
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Why is his head swollen on his left side? Did i misread something?
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The police officers probably roughed him up a bit lol.
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A lot of ppl have said he had some sort of tooth abscess
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This dude is NUTS. Great writeup.
Also does anyone have a link to the police bodycam footage where they first enter the house? Like uncensored versions of it? You can see a pair of hands just laying there on the floor. It's extremely creepy.
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i really dont know what it takes to get the death penalty.
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"HIS fingerrints and dna"
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Damn… That’s a lot of Michelob Light.
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Damn right it is LOL! maybe she was crazy like her son
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He really has crazy eyes and that hairstyle is horrendous. I didn’t know about this case but thanks to your post I’m gonna go watch some documentaries about it on YT.
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Great post!
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Thanks! more to come later tonight <3 trying to find out what case i should do next!
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Great post! I didn't know about this and appreciate the effort you put into this
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Thank you <3 i appreciate your comment :DDDD
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That mugshot on the right is tripping me out
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right? hes a fucking weirdo
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Some good YT videos on Joel.
But this does the "event" more justice IMO
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Thank you sm!
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Happened in my hometown, Knoxville. Dude was a lot dumber than he thought he was. Several good youtube videos covering the story. "That Chapter" has a good one.
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Dumbass clearly watched too much Dahmer and wanted to be a super cool killer. How do you even kill both your parents like that though.. reminds me of that russian guy who bonked his parents with a hammer
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I remember reading about the russian guy, crazy shit
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What the hell happened to his face in the second mugshot?
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I have really bad TMJ and when I get a flare up my jaw looks like that, could be that.
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No clue tbh, my guess is police maybe roughed him up a bit and hes swollen?
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Thank you so much for this!
I love crime stories.
where do you find these details, photos and etc?
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I usually watch youtube videos and just hear about the case and look up the photos. Im also a fan of crime so ill definitely be posting more. Any cases youd be interested in learning about?
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Of course! oh, there are so many! I'll think of one and make the suggestion. I'm following your profile. Thanks. Greetings from Brazil.
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As many as you can my friend. This is simply awesome, the level of details and pictures and the order of events. Keep up the good work 👍
Also, where did you get the pictures from ?
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Numerous posts on Reddit, Twitter, and just google!
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This is amazing post, good work. Not something I was expecting to find here.
Also let me tell you how I was dreading the last pic would be the open pot
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I tried to find pics but i couldnt find them anywhere tbh!!! im glad i didnt see the open pot at the same timee!
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Cheers for this. Really good post.
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Thankies
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Extremely weird how the checklist was worded
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Right
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Guy is retarded.
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its always the 30 year old virgin man baby
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always <3
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The medical examiner's testimony is super interesting (and detailed) for those who would like to see/hear more about the conditions of the bodies:
https://youtube.com/live/BEn99jaSveo?feature=share
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If I was the prosecutor for this case, I would only show the mug shot; thats it.
I'd have a conviction in 5 minutes.
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LMAO
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Long time lurker first time commenter here - well done on the post !
This fat jerk should have his rear end simmering in the electric chair because if this isn't a death penalty case, what is ? The malice, forethought, planning and greed that are here in abundance check all the boxes for it. Get this guy a sisal/jute/hemp necktie ! What purpose can possibly be served by keeping him alive ? Do his nephews want the opportunity to go visit their blood uncle in prison ? It also makes me wonder if it's possible to defend oneself against a savage knife attack like that if one doesn't have a weapon of some kind at hand.
Also, Tennessee does have the death penalty (just looked this up) and they use lethal injection - but I just had to laugh when I saw this bit about the state 'failing to follow its own execution protocols'; seems they hired a fellow to look into whether things were being done properly and "The probe, led by former U.S Attorney Edward Stanton, found that the three drugs used in Tennessee's lethal injection protocol were not properly tested for endotoxins, a type of contaminant." Well we definitely don't want any harmful endotoxins to be present in the drugs that we're going to use to KILL someone, now do we ?
Anyway... again good post and seems the comment section here is a little more enlightened than other similar sites I've seen so for whatever it's worth - good on y'all.
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Thanks for the comment! :D
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The death penalty is a mercy. True torture for the human mind would be to put him in a room tied up void of all stimulation / noise / sensory information. Within hours they would be begging for death or to at least feel something. Even physical pain. You get to sit there in that spot being forced fed through a tube and unable to kill yourself
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I didn't see "make head soup" on his list. Maybe that's where he went wrong.
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right, LOL
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His list cracks me up. “How can I be sure to incriminate myself beyond a doubt 🤔”
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Once again, awesome post. I had forgotten about this.
Fat slob is serving two life sentences.
Pic of the parents.
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Thank you sm! and thanks for the pic of the parents, poor things didnt deserve what he did to them.
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OMG, effortpost warming my heart after seeing too much annoying posts as of recently! Keep up with this
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What do you consider annoying posts?
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Thanks vivid!!!!!! i love true crime sooooo more will definitely keep being posted dont u worry <3
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Do you plan to include sources / more reading? Not necessarily reading that all, ofc
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Yes i definitely can for future ones if you want, i just ran out of space lol C:
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