Shaynna Sims has been charged for the "unlawful removal of body part from deceased" Tabatha, 38, (pictured) at an Oklahoma funeral home. Photo: Facebook An Oklahoma woman accused of slashing the face and cutting body parts off the corpse of a romantic rival was due to appear in a Tulsa court on Monday for a hearing on increasing her bail, law enforcement officials said on Friday.
Shaynna Sims was charged this week with the "unlawful removal of body part from deceased" for cutting off the toe and breasts from the body of the other woman as it was awaiting cremation at a funeral home, the Tulsa District Attorney's Office said.
A court appearance planned for Friday has been pushed back to Monday, prosecutors said.
Sims, also known as Shaynna Smith, had already been charged with crimes including interrupting a funeral, stealing shoes meant for the woman and unauthorised dissection for slashing the face of her former boyfriend's lover as it laid in a casket.
However, the Daily Mail reports family members, who identified the dead woman only as Tabatha, denied she had been involved in a love triangle with Sims' partner Montie Smith.
The trio are believed to have known each other since high school.
Lawyers for Sims were not immediately available for comment. She posted $43,750 bond on Monday and was released from the Tulsa Jail, the Tulsa World reported.
The deceased woman died of natural causes relating to a long illness on April 29. She left behind four children, according to reports.
Prosecutors said that before the body was set to be cremated, Sims "crudely cut and removed a toe for the dead body and crudely cut out and removed the breasts from the dead body," according to papers filed in a state district court on Wednesday.
Prosecutors said it was too early to say what sort of sentence they are seeking in the case.
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Prosecutors said that before the body was set to be cremated, Sims "crudely cut and removed a toe for the dead body and crudely cut out and removed the breasts from the dead body," according to papers filed in a state district court on Wednesday.
Oh my gosh! What on earth would convince a woman to mutilate a corpse?
EW!
I hope her attorney asks for a psych evaluation.
Do you really think so?? She pretty much butchered a corpse, isn't that illegal? I honestly don't know...
I don't think Anger Management would help her one bit!
She is sick. No doubt about it. She needs to be sentenced to a minimum term in a locked psychiatric hospital. I would say that 10 years would do it
I honestly don't know the answer to that, but, she mutilated the body, cut off a toe, and breasts, I don't think they could be donated to anyone....I don't know...
She's dead, call it day! "Move on"
She's dead, call it day! It's over...move on!!
As well, in the laws that I am aware of, the body becomes the property of the executor or administrator of the estate, so the removal of parts without permission is theft.
The question in my mind is what the thief intended to do with the parts. Not that I am capable of interpreting a person's beliefs from their looks, but somehow I think it was for some voodoo or satanic procedure that will have a negative effect upon the deceased's soul or spirit.
lol Interesting you mentioned that Buzz, when I looked at her pic, there was something about her eyes that kind of disturbed me........I may be just my imagination.....
If he was smart he moved to another state under an assumed name.
Darn you MM...I was just going to say the same thing!!! ggrrrr
No, it isn't your imagination. That lady was hiding horns and a tail somewhere.
Thank you !! I thought perhaps I had lost my mind!!( I think I did a longtime ago come to think of it!)
Well, she does have that big hair that can hide the horns...