Posted 3/25/2007 05:25:00 PM by Douglas

What a bizarre, sick, and twisted tale of a lover scorned. I've been trying to keep up, but it's a bit difficult, so I'll try to start from where I first noticed this story. A college student was missing, and the suspect in her disappearance claimed he murdered her and put her body in a dumpster. Ok, not too uncommon, right? Well, since the victim is black, the Harris country sheriff's office are all a bunch of racists because they don't want to displace 40,000 tons of garbage and still not find her.

Faced with the "virtually impossible" task of excavating 40,000 tons of landfill waste to find Tynesha Stewart's body, Harris County sheriff's officials tonight made the agonizing decision that the odds of success were too remote to try.

The 504-acre landfill in northeast Harris County receives about 3,500 tons of "non-hazardous residential, commercial and industrial waste" every day. And although officials have narrowed their search area to a 2-3 acre section at the landfill, they said the body could be buried beneath as much as 40,000 tons of refuse.

"It's not 100 percent impossible, but it's very, very very rare to find what you are looking for," said Chuck Rivette, senior district manager for Waste Management, which owns one of the two landfills investigators are focusing on.

He added, "It's virtually impossible."

But the Sherriff's office is racist because she's black?!? OK, fair 'nuff. How long did it take them to reverse themselves because of media pressure and to avoid the perception of racism? About a day.

Law-enforcement officials reversed themselves Friday, saying they probably would launch a search of Houston's overflowing landfills in hopes of finding the remains of a local Texas A&M University student whose ex-boyfriend confessed to killing her.

Investigators say Timothy Wayne Shepherd, 27, confessed Wednesday to strangling 19-year-old Tynesha Stewart, who disappeared last week. Shepherd, who is charged with murder and being held on $250,000 bond, apparently was angry that Stewart had begun seeing someone else.

Officials first thought that Shepherd had disposed of the body in a large commercial trash bin that had since been emptied, but they now believe Stewart's body was dismembered, placed in various containers, and scattered in several trash bins, making recovery even more difficult.

OK, but at least they're not racist, right? Well, it gets even more disgusting. The suspect in this case (who happens to be black) did some pretty nasty things to the body of this young girl, and "separate dumpsters" is the least of their worries.

Harris County Sheriff' Tommy Thomas announced Saturday night there will be no search for the body of Tynesha Stewart, the 19-year-old Texas A&M student who was murdered March 15.

``There are no remaining body parts,'' Thomas said at a press conference. ``We have determined through this investigation that the defendant dismembered the victim and burned her body parts. There is no body to be found. Based on that information, there will be no search. The family is aware of this and they understand.''

Thomas, who called on local media to give the Stewart family privacy, said Timothy Wayne Shepherd burned Stewart's body in a barbecue grill on his patio at his apartment in the 17700 block of Red Oak in northwest Harris County.

What?!? Everyone's had their heart broke at least once, but a damn BBQ grill? I know some women that I'd personally like to see suffer, but I'm not gonna chop 'em up and serve them with some A-1. That goes ahead and blows regular crazy right off the map! But it gets weirder (if that's possible):

Shepherd's neighbors said Saturday that last week he was barbecuing at all hours of the day, for days at a time, at his apartment, No. 224.

James Hebert, 18, often played video games and barbecued with his ``nice'' next-door neighbor. In fact, they cooked out together so frequently Hebert kept his grill at Shepherd's place.

Awkward. . . .

But starting on March 15 , he noticed Shepherd was cooking - on his own grill and on Hebert's pit - ``non-stop`` for two days.

This time, however, Shepherd hadn't invited him over, nor did he share.

Be glad, buddy. Be glad he didn't share or invite you over.

When he asked for some of what he was cooking, Shepherd refused, saying he was cooking for a wedding.

Or a funeral.

Anyway you slice it (damn, sorry, that was bad) this is a horrible, horrible story. Who know what kind of demons lurk in this young man's mind to facilitate such a hideous act and have the foresight to try to cover it up. But I hope we've all learned something from this one:

• Girls, sometime when you break up with someone, they really are crazy. Be careful!
• Cops, just because you can't fly to the moon for a victim, it doesn't mean you're a racist. Necessarily.
• Quannel X, just because you can smell a TV camera rolling, doesn't mean you need to show up and pontificate in front of it.
• Friends and neighbors, if your "grill buddy" is suddenly grilling for 24 solid hours and not only not inviting you, but trying to keep you away, something might be up.

Now, I hope we've all learned something. Now let's focus our attention to what Anna Nicole is doing. . . .