{"id":72362,"date":"2025-08-16T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72362\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T09:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T09:17:08","slug":"james-and-suzanne-agnew-couple-allegedly-hid-body-of-their-lover-dogs-chewed-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/72362\/","title":{"rendered":"James and Suzanne Agnew: Couple allegedly hid body of their lover, dogs chewed on it"},"content":{"rendered":"

A married couple have been arrested and charged after they allegedly hid their lover\u2019s rotting body in their home for years.<\/p>\n

James O\u2019Neill was found dead in the couple\u2019s Lakewood, Colorado home on July 3 after the man\u2019s family asked police to do a welfare check.<\/p>\n

The couple, Suzanne and James David Agnew, have since been arrested and charged with multiple offences, including tampering with a corpse.<\/p>\n

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Ms Agnew told investigators that she and her husband had been in a polyamorous relationship with Mr O\u2019Neill for years.<\/p>\n

Law & Crime<\/a> shared an arrest affidavit for Mr Agnew online, which said when police spoke to him during the welfare check, he had allegedly impersonated Mr O\u2019Neill and told officers that he wanted nothing to do with the family who were checking on him.<\/p>\n

Mr O\u2019Neill\u2019s brother was shown bodycam footage of the interaction, and he told police that the man in the video was not his missing sibling.<\/p>\n

Investigators then discovered that Mr O\u2019Neill had called emergency services in December 2023 and said his roommate had been \u201cmaking threats\u201d, but said he did not want police to come to the house.<\/p>\n

According to the affidavit, Ms Agnew told police that around two weeks after the emergency call she found Mr O\u2019Neill dead in the house but decided not to call authorities because she didn\u2019t want to \u201cgive up\u201d Mr Agnew.<\/p>\n

Shockingly, she also allegedly told police that the couple\u2019s pet chihuahuas had been chewing on his dead body.<\/p>\n

To stop this, she allegedly said that she and her husband decided to hide Mr O\u2019Neill\u2019s body under an air mattress.<\/p>\n

During the initial investigation, police also learned that Mr Agnew had allegedly used Mr O\u2019Neill\u2019s bank account for regular transactions.<\/p>\n

Both Mr and Ms Agnew have been charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with a corpse, theft and unauthorised use of a financial device, according to 9NEWS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neither of them have been charged in relation to Mr O\u2019Neill\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

They are both due to appear in court within the next month.<\/p>\n

No plea information has been made available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A married couple have been arrested and charged after they allegedly hid their lover\u2019s rotting body in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,2957,1720],"class_list":["post-72362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}