Coast Guard vet executes her alleged rapist in woods
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Left: Chelsea Perkins (Santa Rosa County Jail). Right: Matthew Dunmire (Claytor Rollins Funeral Home).

A former U.S. Coast Guard member who became an OnlyFans model is facing a lengthy prison sentence after leading a man she accused of assaulting her into a forested area of an Ohio national park and fatally shooting him.

Chelsea Perkins, 35, received a 22 1/2-year prison sentence on Tuesday for the killing of Matthew Dunmire at Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Cleveland, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio. She had admitted guilt to second-degree murder charges in May.

“The act was a deliberate and premeditated plan to end his life,” prosecutors argued in the sentencing hearing, as reported by local CBS affiliate WOIO.

Perkins claimed Dunmire had raped her a few years earlier in Virginia but there was not enough evidence to file charges.

“What I see here today is a lack of remorse,” prosecutors said.

Prosecutors also highlighted her efforts to hide her crime. Police discovered a fabricated suicide note on Perkins’ phone, which she had written but later erased. Additionally, she went to Michigan to get a tattoo of a noose on her forearm after committing the murder.

For her part, she told the court she took “full responsibility” for her actions.

“I was in the Marine Corps and never met anyone as evil or vile,” Dan Dunmire, the victim’s uncle told the court, per WOIO.

Perkins’ family members spoke as well, saying she is a good person.

Said Matthew Dunmire’s father: “My son was a good person, too, and now his children have no father.”

As previously covered by Law&Crime, hikers discovered the body of 31-year-old Dunmire in the Terra Vista Natural Study Area of the park at around 11 a.m. on March 9, 2021. He had suffered a single gunshot wound to the back of his head, with an Aquafina water bottle found nearby.

The FBI uncovered that Dunmire had visited a bar with friends and colleagues four days before his body was found. He had informed them he planned to meet a woman visiting for the weekend. She arrived in a white car and his boss watched him get in and depart with her.

License plate readers showed the car belonged to Perkins’ husband. Investigators later learned that the pair drove to an Airbnb that the defendant had rented using her credit card. After spending the night with Dunmire, Perkins sent a Facebook message to her tattoo artist in metro Detroit that she was in Cleveland and was going to “make a stop first” before driving to Michigan, according to investigators.

The pair drove to the national park on the morning of March 6, 2021. Hikers said they heard a gunshot between 11:30 a.m. and 11:50 a.m. Another pair of hikers reported encountering a woman later confirmed to be Perkins, who was walking and appeared to be lost. They thought it was odd she was wearing knee-high boots and not hiking gear.

Perkins then drove to the tattoo parlor in Michigan. Agents keyed in on Perkins as a suspect and found the same car parked outside her husband’s home in Virginia a couple of weeks later.

The suspect’s DNA was also found on the Aquafina bottle as well as on Dunmire’s body, per cops.

After her short stint in the Coast Guard, Perkins became an OnlyFans model under the name Sabrina Savage, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported. As for Perkins’ rape allegation against Dunmire, police in Virginia Beach said there was not enough evidence to move forward with the charge, the newspaper reports.

The case took a twist in November 2021 when Dunmire’s parents, upset that Perkins remained free, took matters into their own hands. Dunmire’s mother, Tommie Lynn Dunmire, and father, John Nelson McQuillen, drove to Washington, D.C., with plans on killing Perkins, according to feds.

Tommie Lynn Dunmire dressed as a UPS driver and knocked on an apartment door. When a woman answered, she shot her twice in the abdomen.

The problem? The woman who answered the door was not Perkins — the older Dunmire had just shot a woman who had nothing to do with her son’s murder.

Tommie Lynn Dunmire and McQuillen changed license plates on their vehicle, but cops still tracked them down. She shot herself to death as officers were closing in. The woman she shot survived her injuries, and federal agents arrested McQuillen, who later pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to assault with intent to kill. He received a three-year prison sentence.

Matthew Dunmire’s obituary described him as a “free spirit who loved music, loved playing his guitar, and loved being with his friends.”

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