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A grisly new detail has emerged in the murder case of Joanne Johnson.
Last month, two 14-year-old girls were arrested for the shocking murder of the 93-year-old, who was found butchered in her Augusta, Kansas home over Labor Day weekend in 2023. A hatchet from Joanne’s garage was reportedly the murder weapon used, so we kind of already knew it a gruesome scene. But the late victim’s son Tim Johnson, who was the one to find his mother’s remains, is opening up about just how horrific the discovery was.
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Speaking to KWCH on the one-year anniversary of his mother’s death on Tuesday, he divulged some truly unfathomable details:
“It’s not something that you imagine. My mom was just a couple of weeks shy of 94 years old. She lived in a quiet, peaceful neighborhood, a safe neighborhood. I still think that it’s a safe neighborhood and a safe town. But when we walked inside, she was literally unrecognizable. If we hadn’t seen her tennis shoes, I wouldn’t have recognized who she was.”
That is so incredibly awful… Just something we doubt you could ever fully recover from.
Turning his attention to the unidentified minors accused of committing Joanne’s murder, he added:
“We’re reconciling two facts that we do know: This was an unbelievably, heinous, brutal murder and the fact it’s two juveniles, that statutes allow them to be charged as adults and that’s what we want to see happen.”
As we previously reported, one of the juvenile’s fathers claimed his daughter told police officers it was not she and her friend who murdered Joanne, but rather a strange man from the park who lured them over to her house with him. That story, however, has remained largely unconfirmed as cops fixated on finding a link between the teens and Joanne. The pair entered a not guilty plea last week, so we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.
Our hearts remain with Tim and the rest of Joanne’s loved ones.
[Image via Kansas Bureau of Investigation/Facebook]
