Headless Body, Chainsaw Found Near House

Houston - Police who found a man’s dismembered body outside a vacant house, with the head and an arm stuffed into a trash bag and the rest of his remains in a backyard next door, arrested his best friend for murder. Neighbors and family members say the two men had been best friends for years and a possible argument over money might have led to the slaying. The body of Marlon Thomas, 35, was found in the backyard of a fenced, burned home in Houston’s Fifth Ward, a historically black neighborhood east of downtown. Police said Thomas’ friend, Noe Morin, 32, who lived in an apartment in the home next door, killed him. They took Morin into custody and charged him.  More