Diabolical Stew of Human Remains: The Dismemberment Murder of Joel and Lisa Guy

Kym L Pasqualini
12 min readJan 1, 2021
Lisa and Joel Guy were murdered and dismembered by their son, Joel Guy Jr., on Thanksgiving weekend in 2016.
Lisa and Joel Guy were murdered and dismembered by their son, Joel Guy Jr., on Thanksgiving weekend in 2016. Photo courtesy of Find A Grave.

*WARNING: This story may contain disturbing details.

Joel Guy Jr., 28, and his sisters gathered with their parents Joel and Lisa Guy on Thanksgiving in 2016, at their parent’s two-story home located on a beautiful, perfectly manicured, corner lot on Goldview Lane in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Recently retired, Joel was a pipeline engineering designer and the couple had been married 31 years. Joel had three daughters by a previous marriage and Lisa and Joel Sr. gave birth to their youngest son Joel Michael Guy Jr. in 1988.

Family photos line the walls in the Guy’s home in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Family photos line the walls in the Guy’s home in Knoxville, Tennessee. Photo courtesy of the Daily Mail.

It would be their last holiday together in their family home. Joel Sr. and Lisa had just sold their Knoxville home. Lisa was going to retire, and both were moving into Joel Sr.’s late mother’s mountain home 90 miles away in Surgoinsville. They all looked forward to a Christmas Reunion in the Surgoinsville home just a month away.

The Guys said goodbye to their daughters, who all live in Tennessee, and planned to say goodbye to their son, Joel on Friday of that week before he headed home to Baton Rouge. He had been living in Baton Rouge for a decade and…

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Kym L Pasqualini

A veteran crime victim advocate who loves to write. Founder and CEO of the National Center for Missing Adults from 1994–2010.