Cruel Death (46 page)

(Courtesy of the Worcester County State’s Attorney’s Office, Maryland)

After Erika and BJ murdered Ford and Crutchley, dismembered their bodies, placed the body parts in plastic bags and a Navy SEAL duffle bag, and tossed them into several different Dumpsters in Delaware, they began what these photos prove to be a fun-filled vacation in Ocean City, asking passersby to snap their photo as they smiled and hammed it up for the camera.

(Courtesy of the Ocean City Police Department)

After finding Ford and Crutchley’s IDs in Erika’s purse, police searched their condominium, where they immediately uncovered blood, hairs, and pieces of a human scalp inside this sink and a washing machine.

(Courtesy of the Ocean City Police Department)

This photo shows Erika’s python, but she and BJ also owned a cobra.

(Courtesy of the Ocean City Police Department)

This blood stain on Erika and BJ’s mattress is likely where BJ, naked and fully painted with Ford and Crutchley’s blood, sat and explained to Erika that he had masturbated over their bodies before dismembering them.

(Courtesy of the Ocean City Police Department)

This bullet, found inside Erika and BJ’s room, contained flesh, hair fibers and blood belonging to both Ford and Crutchley. Erika was said to be saving it for a necklace she wanted to make.

(Courtesy of the Ocean City Police Department)

Joshua Ford, 32, and Geney Crutchley, 51, were said to be building a life together in Fairfax City, Virginia, when they met up with Erika and BJ Sifrit on an Ocean City, Maryland bus.

(Courtesy of the Ocean City Police Department)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Crime writer, serial killer expert, and investigative journalist
M. William Phelps
is the author of twenty-four nonfiction books. Winner of the 2008 New England Book Festival Award for
I’ll Be Watching You,
Phelps has appeared on nearly one hundred television shows, including CBS’s
Early Show,
ABC’s
Good Morning America
and
The View,
NBC’s
Today Show,
TLC, BIO Channel, and History Channel. Phelps also created, produces, and stars in the hit Investigation Discovery series
Dark Minds,
which is in its third season, and is one of the stars of ID’s
Deadly Women
. Radio America calls him “the nation’s leading authority on the mind of the female murderer.”

Profiled in such noted publications as
Writer’s Digest, Connecticut Magazine, New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, Suspense Magazine
, and the
Hartford Courant,
Phelps has also consulted for the Showtime cable television series
Dexter
and written for
Connecticut Magazine
. Touched by tragedy himself, due to the unsolved murder of his sister-in-law, Phelps is able to enter the hearts and minds of his subjects like no one else. He lives in a small Connecticut farming community and can be reached at his author website,
www.mwilliamphelps.com
.

Some names have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals connected to this story.

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