Left: Lesa Hyde (Springville Police Department). Right: Shed outside apartment complex in Provo, Utah, where cops found her body (KUTV).
A 53-year-old Utah man allegedly murdered his ex-girlfriend, placed her body in a trash bag and stuffed it in a shed near his apartment.
Arthuro Carrion stands accused of murder in the death of Lesa Hyde, who was last seen in Springville around the end of December. The Springville Police Department sent out a press release on Jan. 29 asking for Hyde’s whereabouts and welfare. Cops interviewed Carrion as a “person of interest,” a probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by Law&Crime said. On Sunday afternoon, a witness called Provo police to report a body in a shed behind an apartment complex in the 700 block of Heather Lane.
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The caller identified Carrion as the suspect, the affidavit said. Cops found two sheds in the backyard and Carrion in the front yard. When the suspect gave officers the key and they asked him what they would found inside, he allegedly said “a dead body.”
“When the shed was opened the smell of decomposition was plain,” cops wrote in the affidavit. Officers opened several bags, one of which had a “forearm of a human body.”
Detectives spoke with the witness who said Carrion called him on Saturday and asked him to come over. Carrion allegedly told the man he had “done something wrong” and then uttered the name “Lesa” before nodding his head in the direction of the sheds.
Police placed Carrion in handcuffs. As cops took him back to the patrol car, he allegedly said “should have never told that snitch.” Witnesses also told detectives that they heard him say that he “pulled a Rick,” which was apparently a reference to a family member who murdered his girlfriend, the affidavit said.
When police told him Carrion was being arrested for murder, he allegedly said “Officer Andrews is the one who caused all this.” Detectives asked what he meant and he responded “what he put in the report.” Andrews arrested Carrion for domestic violence against Hyde on Nov. 19.
Officers transported Carrion to the Utah County Jail where he is being held without bond.
