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Diabolical Stew of Human Remains: The Dismemberment Murder of Joel and Lisa Guy
*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.
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 financially supported by his parents. The Guys had mentioned to their daughters that they planned to cut Joel Jr. off financially, right after the Thanksgiving get together,
It is not clear if Joel and Lisa ever got the opportunity to tell their youngest son they were no longer going to support him financially, but Lisa’s coworkers became worried when she did not show up at work on Friday, November 25. Lisa worked at Jacob’s Engineering, in Oakridge, where she was a human resource accounts payable administrator. It was supposed to be Lisa’s last day before she retired. After calling Lisa repeatedly with no answer, her coworkers called the police and requested a welfare check at the Guy’s home.
Grisly Scene
Knox County Officers Jeremy McCord and Steven Ballard and several other officers responded to 11434 Goldenview Lane to conduct a welfare check and found it seemingly empty. However, the house was for…
