Without records, it would be difficult to establish his mental condition that long ago, she said. At his arraignment in 2019, Babcock claimed to be bipolar and addicted to crystal methamphetamine and alcohol.
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Confession summary:
Jacobs and he were drinking heavily around the holidays in 2003. They argued over losing their jobs and being unable to buy gifts for children.
He hit her several times, she fell to the floor and did not get up. He never called 911. When the body got cold he wrapped it in a comforter and placed it in a living room closet.
A few months later when it got warmer he moved the body to a coal bin in a barn at the rear of the Montoursville property where it remained until the house was sold on Nov. 18, 2018.
He tried to fit the remains in a wooden box his father used when ice fishing but it did not fit, so he cut off the legs with a bow saw.
He moved the legless remains to a storage unit in Williamsport where they stayed until April 2019 when he and his then-girlfriend moved to Philadelphia using a rental truck.
The legs were thrown into the Susquehanna River from the Maynard Street Bridge in Williamsport. Fisherman found them on the river’s edge 75 yards apart and a short distance downstream on May 11, 2019.
The rest of the remains were found Sept. 17, 2019
, in a storage unit in Philadelphia.
They were directed there by Brenda Jones who had lived with Babcock for four years first in Montoursville and then in Philadelphia.
Jones told police
she turned in Babcock out of fear after he told her he had killed Jacobs.
A trial date has not been set as there are several pretrial issues pending before Judge Nancy L. Butts. Babcock is jailed without bail.
Lack of records eliminates mental defense in 2003 Montoursville homicide