This is the horrifying moment police arrested a 19-year-old who murdered a homeless man and kept his head in his nearest place.
Brian Cohee, now 21, of Colorado, murdered Warren Barnes, a 69-year-old homeless man, in 2021.
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In the extremely gruesome crime, Cohee decapitated, dismembered and mutilated Mr Barnes’ body before taking some of the body parts home, where his mother found them.
Next to his head, Cohee’s mother, Terri, also discovered Barnes’s hands, decomposing in a separate plastic bag that was hidden in her closet.
Cohee had attempted to dispose of the rest of the body by putting it in the trunk of his car and attempting to drive the vehicle to the Colorado River.
Brian Cohee, now 21, of Colorado, who murdered a homeless man, was reported by his mother to police after finding the man’s dismembered head in his closet.
In February 2021, Cohee horribly murdered a 69-year-old homeless man named Warren Barnes.
The documentary featured police dash camera footage from the moment authorities arrived at Cohee’s residence.
Police questioned Cohee at his home and asked: ‘Are your parents worried about some things they may have found in your room? What would that be?
To which Cohee calmly replied: ‘Yes, I think so, a human head and hands. The kind that disappeared. I killed him with a knife.
When police officers asked him why, he added: “I always wondered what a murder would feel like.”
Terri later painfully recalled the moment she discovered Barnes’ severed head in her son’s closet during a police interrogation.
She said: “I was in his room cleaning, putting some things away and he has a container made of rubber in his closet so I started investigating.”
“I saw a plastic bag and thought what the hell is this? I picked it up and it was heavy and I held it in my hands, with worms covering it.
‘I took it to the sink, it was double bagged, so I opened the first bag and didn’t open the second. I called his father and said “you have to come here right now.”
Terri later painfully recalled the moment she discovered Barnes’ severed head in her son’s closet during a police interrogation.
At first I didn’t know what was in the bag. Teri took the dismembered head to the kitchen sink before opening it.
Cohee’s parents then called 911 to report the gruesome discovery, even admitting to the operator that their son had a keen interest in “death and mortality.”
Cohee admitted to killing Barnes with a kitchen knife and said he had been planning to murder someone for six months prior.
He added that he sought to kill a homeless person or a prostitute under the assumption that no one would miss them.
Elsewhere in the documentary, Cohee detailed his gruesome crime to investigators without showing emotion or remorse.
He said: “It was the night of February 27, there was a full moon and I thought I could see very well, why not try it? I’m in a bad mood at the time, I have major depressive disorder.”
“I was driving and I saw a shape and I was like, ‘Oh, interesting.'” I felt like I was homeless, so I grabbed my knife, put on three layers of gloves because plastic gloves can betray their users because they’re so thin. , I took the knife, removed the tarp and stabbed him in the neck. .
Despite pleading insanity, Cohee was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year after being found guilty of first-degree murder.
“At first he panicked, saying what are you doing, what are you doing, why, why, and I kept stabbing his neck.”
He told investigators he was “growling” and “making animal noises” while stabbing Barnes.
He laughed as he explained, in sickening detail, how he dismembered the man’s body before saying “I’m sorry, it’s morbid” to investigators.
Cohee seemed excited to tell investigators all about his horrible crime, he even seemed excited to relive the murder and savor the memory.
Despite pleading insanity, Cohee was sentenced to life in prison without parole last year after being convicted of first-degree murder.
He was also found guilty of two counts of tampering with a corpse and tampering with evidence.
Judge Richard Gurley, who presided over this case, called it one of the most horrific he had seen in his 37 years in the criminal justice system.
The chilling documentary left viewers unable to sleep and many rushed to X, formerly known as Twitter, to leave their thoughts.
The judge also stated that although it was evident that Cohee was suffering from mental problems and saw things differently, the murder was on his mind for “quite a while.”
The chilling documentary left viewers unable to sleep and many rushed to X, formerly known as Twitter, to leave their thoughts.
One person wrote: ‘I just finished watching a documentary about Brian Cohee Jr. I have to get up in five hours. I won’t be able to sleep. There are people like that that exist in this world.
Another said: “I went to YouTube to watch a Katt Williams monologue after watching a funny video here and ended up watching the full Brian Cohee documentary.” My God, how disturbing.
Someone else commented on YouTube: ‘Absolutely chilling. That homeless man was working hard and doing good things with his life and that kid was treating his body like a science experiment. He should never get out of jail.
Cohee’s assumption that Barnes’ death would go unnoticed was incorrect because he had many friends and family who loved him.
They have since installed a memorial sculpture in his memory, in the place where he used to spend most of his time.