Teen finds foot after man 'killed and dismembered janitor he met on Grindr'

Justie Stilwell, a 41-year-old janitor at T.L. Handy Middle School in Bay City, was reported missing on September 18, when a teenager spotted a foot in the Saginaw River that same day

A man has been charged with killing and dismembering a janitor he met on Grindr - after a teenager horrifically discovered the victim's foot in a river.

Justie Stilwell, a 41-year-old janitor at TL Handy Middle School in Bay City, Michigan, was reported missing on September 18. A teenager spotted a foot in the Saginaw River that same day. Police subsequently found Stilwell's arms and lower legs in the water.

According to court documents obtained by detectives obtained surveillance footage from Stilwell's neighbours that showed Stilwell driving away from his home in Bay City on the evening of September 14. Investigators used data from Grindr to determine that Stilwell had gone to meet a Grindr user with the handle "Bored."

They tracked Bored's location to 40-year-old Robert Tweedly's home in Bay City. Tweedly told investigators that Stilwell came to his home and he shoved Stilwell down his basement stairs after Stilwell wanted to leave, according to the documents. He then strangled Stilwell to death, he told investigators, according to the documents.

The body was too heavy to move upstairs so he cut it apart, he told investigators. He dumped the legs and arms in the river and put the head and torso in a nature preserve. Police recovered those body parts there, according to the court documents.

Tweedly was arraigned on September 27 on charges of murder and mutilating a body. His attorney, James Piazza said that he had met with Tweedly but was still waiting for prosecutors to share evidence and had no comment on the case.

It comes after a man who thought his Grindr date was "pleasant" was stabbed 14 times by the teenager in a "frenzied attack." Dexter Davies, 18, was sentenced for inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent. Davies was told he was lucky he was not being sentenced for murder.

James Hartson, prosecuting, said in September last year the defendant initiated contact with the profile of a man on the internet dating app. Davies - who was calling himself Danny and claiming to be 18 though he was actually 17 - and the man exchanged messages and subsequently met up.

The two males engaged in "consensual sexual activity" and "parted on good terms" at the time. Eight days later the pair began speaking again, with Davies on a different Grindr account, and agreed to meet again. The court heard they once again went to the man's house and Davies asked the man - who is in his 40s - whether he had handcuffs and a blindfold, items the man did not have. The defendant told the man he had "something in mind" and told him to lay on his front as he pulled the man's T-shirt up over his head.

It was at this point the victim felt what he believed were punches of "great force" to his back. Davies remained silent through the assault which he carried out with a large kitchen knife. Davies then ran to a neighbouring home and told them he had met with a woman who turned out to be a man and had tried to stab him, asking if he could use the phone to ring his mother. He was later arrested and answered "no comment" to all questions in an interview.