Gaffney, South Carolina: A man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing his mother’s boyfriend and then working with her to cut up his body and leave it in several containers under a South Carolina home, prosecutors said.
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Charles Bridges, 20, pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday just as his trial was set to begin, Solicitor Barry Barnette said in a statement.
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Bridges was worried Stone might be harming his mother when he came to her Cherokee County home in November 2017, Barnette said.
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Bridges started fighting with Gary Stone moments after arriving and stabbed him to death, authorities said,
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Bridges’ mother, 45-year-old Dawn Wilkins, then helped her son dismember Stone’s body and put it in several contains under her home, Barnette said.
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The body of the 51-year-old man was found by deputies investigating his disappearance.
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Wilkins pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact, desecration of a body and conspiracy to kidnap before her son’s trial was scheduled to start and is in jail awaiting sentencing, prosecutors said.
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