Women Who Kill

Women Who Kill

Melissa Garcia

The morning of the 29th of November 2010 is one the maid and manager of the Continental Hotel, in Los Angeles, will never forget. Upon cleaning room 66, the maid found the bed stripped of sheets and a backpack. Calling her manager for help, they found bound dismembered arms in the bag as well as a torso with stab wounds under the bed.

Herbert White was a former cocaine addict, who turned his life around and became a sponsor for recovering addicts. On the 28th of November 2010, Herbert received a call from a couple, drug addicts Melissa and Edward Garcia. Herbert met the couple days earlier and told them to get in touch if they were serious about becoming sober. Herbert checked the pair into the Downtown Los Angeles hotel and from that moment on a sickening sexual fantasy took place. The Garcia’s duct taped Herbert’s hands and feet before they began slicing him. After fatally stabbing the man they began “filleting” him before dismembering body parts. The couple called this their “sexual fantasy” and they had “long-held fantasy of dismembering”.

In their home state of Pennsylvania, the couple tried a similar attack but failed. Melissa was to play a prostitute and lure men to an apartment in which Edward would then attack and kill.

In 2015, Edward Garcia received life without parole, whilst Melissa Garcia received 16 years