Mixed-Martial Artist Who Ripped Heart, Tongue Out of Friend Pleads Guilty
By KEVIN DOLAK | ABC News – Sun, Sep 9, 2012
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" A northern California man accused of ripping out the heart and tongue of a friend after the two had taken hallucinogenic drugs has pleaded guilty to murder, four days before his case was set to go to trial.

Jarrod Wyatt, 29, of Crescent City, Calif. accepted a plea deal in which he will serve a 50-years-to-life prison sentence in the March 2010 death of his sparring partner, 21-year-old Taylor Powell, Del Norte County prosecutors told The Associated Press.

"The earliest he'll be able to see a parole board is 2062," District Attorney Jon Alexander told the AP. "We saved Taylor's family the agony from reliving the incident at the trial."

Police officers discovered Wyatt naked and covered in blood head-to-toe when they arrived at a house in Requa, Calif., in March 2010.

Wyatt, a mixed-martial artist, reportedly told the officers, "I killed him." He had cut out Powell's heart and tongue, according to court documents.

Powell's body was found by officers on the couch. His chest had been cut open, while his heart, tongue and the skin of his face was removed. Court documents say that Powell's heart and tongue had been removed while he was still alive.

The two had ingested hallucinogenic mushrooms before Wyatt attacked and killed Powell, according to witnesses. While intoxicated, the two believed that they were involved in a struggle between God and the devil. Powell's heart was discovered by police charred in a wood-burning stove, Dr. Neil Kushner, who performed the autopsy, told The Times Standard.

Previously Wyatt entered pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. After he was evaluated by psychiatrists, a judge ruled him competent to stand trial, the AP reported.

On Thursday night, Alexander and Wyatt's attorney, James Fallman, reached a deal in which Wyatt pleaded guilty to first-degree murder involving mayhem. Fallman said that Wyatt didn't want to testify at trial and he didn't want his family to testify.

"We looked for an agreement that would at least give him the opportunity to be paroled someday," Fallman told the AP. "As bad as 50 years to life sounds, it's better than life without the possibility of parole."

Wyatt is scheduled to be officially sentenced Oct. 4."

First comment...what a sick, sick world we're livin in!!  Not only the atrocity of the story, but the fact that yahoo saw fit to post it under the entertainment category!  WTH!!!

Secondly, I have to follow tachead's line of thinking and wonder what else was ingested, or, were the shrooms known NOT to have been laced with a substance such as PCP??  The standard response on the clusterbusters board to newbies in regard to acquiring "alt meds" is "you wouldn't buy your imitrex off the street so prolly not a good idea for alt meds either"!!!!

DD

I have never wanted to kill anyone after i atr mushrooms. all i wanna do is watch a good movie or go for a bike ride. had to have mixed it with something else.

Zero credibility here, as a newspaper will write anything and the more non-specific of type and amount consumed of the substance, kinda leaves the point "moot". If it was the wrong type of "Aminita" death usually occurs within a few days as the liver, etc. are destroyed. I think it sounds like blaming the sky for being blue. I have been on at least 300 different hallucinogenic experiences, all of which were excellent for the most part and personally this isn't just suspect, it's rediculous. There are all sorts of people out there that are ready to snap at a moments notice, and they were born with the possibility, because they are flesh. Last dose I did of Lysergic Acid Amide (while experimenting with a Dr from Harvard) had a result from Hawaiin Woodrose seeds that stopped a k-10 Cluster and put me in remisssion for 3 months. Many others a couple of years ago were also having wonderful results from small doses of Psyliciben. My 3 grandchildren love Popi.