KLAS reported<\/a>.<\/p>\nMichaels told police she hit Willette with a \u201ccandlestick-like\u201d item while giving him a massage in his bedroom, according to video played in court Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t say anything. He stopped moving,\u201d Michaels told detectives in the interview.<\/p>\n
Michaels was jealous of her husband after he received sole custody of their two children, according to prosecutors. Facebook\/Devyn Michaels<\/p>\n
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Willette told cops she then cut off her ex-husband\u2019s head and put it in a laundry basket and drove it to her home. She ended up dumping the victim\u2019s head in a trash can in her neighborhood, Henderson Police Detective Dennis Ozawa testified.<\/p>\n
Michaels wanted her ex-husband out of the picture even though Willette was in the process of moving back in with her and his son, prosecutor Brittni Griffith told the jurors.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the truth is, the walls were closing in on Devyn Michaels and the fantasy that she had put together,\u201d Griffith told the jury Friday ahead of sentencing.<\/p>\n
Willette\u2019s head has never been found. Facebook\/Johnathan Willette<\/p>\n
Michaels had married Willette in 2012 but divorced him in 2018, later marrying Willette\u2019s son, Deviere Willette, 29, in what she called a marriage of convenience, according to court testimony.<\/p>\n
Deviere told the jury he had no involvement in his father\u2019s death, after Michaels\u2019 lawyers tried to paint him as a suspect, despite no phone or video evidence placing him near the scene.<\/p>\n
In a chilling moment during Michaels\u2019 police interview, a garbage truck drove by outside and beeped, prompting her to tell investigators with her that Willette went \u201cbye-bye,\u201d Ozawa testified, as reported by KLAS.<\/p>\n
Michaels faces life in prison when she is sentenced January. KLAS<\/p>\n
No murder weapon was ever recovered, and Willette\u2019s head has never been found, nor any of the tools used to dismember the body.<\/p>\n
Michaels\u2019 lawyers had said she could not have decapitated a man of Willette\u2019s size and added that no one had witnessed or heard the murder.<\/p>\n
Michaels will be sentenced Jan. 8, and faces a life sentence with or without parole. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty.<\/p>\n
Last year, Michaels pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge as part of a deal that would have made her eligible for parole after 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n
But during sentencing this summer, Michaels apologized before saying she was innocent, sending the case to trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Las Vegas porn actress who decapitated her ex-hubby and dumped his head in a trash can as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6966,238,1625,9,11,10,23982,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-41661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-las-vegas","9":"tag-murders","10":"tag-nevada","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-porn-stars","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}