CASS COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — A Cass County woman was sentenced to 20 to 50 years in prison for killing her boyfriend and then throwing his body into a trash receptacle.
WWMT reported that the crime happened in Dowagiac in January of 2021.
40-year-old Deidra Tomlin pleaded guilty on Friday, August 12, to second degree murder in the death of Bryce Grove, according to Cass County prosecutors who said she shot him in the face with a 9mm handgun.
Authorities say that Tomlin never called for help after the murder, but instead went to a local casino.
She tried unsuccessfully to recruit people to help her dispose of the body before finally putting Grove’s remains in a curbside trash dumpster.
She was arrested in South Bend, IN.
