Thursday, January 31, 2008

O.C. man allegedly cut off tongue of girlfriend who bled to death

Prosecutors say a La Palma man cut off his girlfriend's tongue and allowed her to bleed to death before hiding the corpse in his garage for weeks.

Jurors were told today that Frank Robert Malloy tortured and murdered his live-in girlfriend Patrial Dunthorne in June 2005. The Orange County prosecutor says the 50-year-old defendant cut off the woman's tongue and she bled to death in bed. He then hid the body in body in the garage.

The former longshoreman allegedly lied to neighbors, saying Dunthorne had gone to Utah. The body was discovered after the victim's brother arrived at the La Palma home and smelled the decaying body.

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