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Robert Keith Tincher III, aged 29, has been in custody since Thursday night for the murder of his grandmother, whom he dragged and put into a freezer alive after putting her in garbage bags
, at the end of 2021, in addition to keeping his body in storage for months, reports the Floyd County Police.
Tincher’s arrest was made possible by Floyd County Police Department (FCPD) investigators addressing a family member’s concern about the whereabouts of the grandmother, who has not been identified by name.
The Rome News-Tribune newspaper reported, citing police reports to which she had access, that Tincher did not seek help for her grandmother after suffering a fall and instead placed her inside plastic bags and dragged her around the house, to where she had the freezer, causing multiple fractures.
The police report indicates that the accused had no provocation or altercation with the victim , nor did he take measures to save her life and that finally, he put her in a freezer, still alive, and locked it.
Tincher told investigators that his grandmother’s back was also broken when he put her there. That he kept his body in the freezer because he was afraid of being discovered.
Tincher was arrested Thursday at his home on Hennon Drive and is charged with felony manslaughter, felony manslaughter, concealment of death and aggravated assault in the death of his grandmother, records show. from the Floyd County Jail.
But this is not the only case for which he is charged. Tincher was already a fugitive from justice since 2018 on an outstanding warrant for his arrest on charges of attempting to hire a hit man to kill his wife.
Four years ago, Tincher and Steven Walter Brooks, then of 25 years, were accused of conspiring to kill his wife, Courtney Tincher.
She went to the police in the city of Rome, the county seat of Floyd, and accused her husband of vandalizing her car months earlier and posted on Facebook plans to hire a hit man to kill her, reported WSB- TV in Atlanta.
At that time the authorities indicated that Tincher contacted Brooks on Facebook Messenger to “hire” him in order to put his wife 6 feet underground.
According to court records, Brooks was acquitted of charges in January of 2019 and that same A warrant for Tincher’s arrest was issued after failing to appear for a court date on charges of attempted murder made in September of 799.
So far Floyd County Coroner Gene Proctor has not identified the victim by name, but reported that his body was taken to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Criminal Investigation Laboratory in Atlanta.