A man allegedly admitted to police that he beheaded his girlfriend because she tried to break up with him while they were on their way to court. Alexis Saborit, 42, cut America Mafalda Thayer’s head off with a knife and ran, police and prosecutors said.
The crime occurred around 2.30pm on Wednesday and was video recorded by at least one witness, authorities said.
One of the witnesses ‘observed a male throw a headless body out of a car at the intersection’, according to a charging document obtained by Law & Crime.
The complaint states that arriving officers found ‘a female, naked from the waist up, lying with her feet towards the curb and her shoulders near an open car door’.
‘The woman had been decapitated and her head was lying approximately one foot away from her body,’ it states. ‘There were large amounts of blood on the ground and in the passenger side of the vehicle.’
Officers looking for evidence in a grassy area a few feet away from the crime scene then found ‘an empty, black sheath that appeared to be for a machete-style knife’.
Saborit claimed that Thayer tried to dump him while he was en route to court for a prior legal matter that was not detailed in the complaint.
‘The Defendant said he used a knife to kill Victim because she had “gone too far” in her abuse of him and in her comments about ending their relationship,’ the complaint states.
Saborit blamed Thayer for abusing him, although he has a record being an abuser.
Both Saborit and Thayer are from Shakopee and were known to law enforcement officials.
Saborit was charged with second-degree murder on Friday in Scott County, Minnesota. It carries up to 40 years in prison in the state.
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