Jamie May Smith stuffed dead man in barrel at Motel 6: Cops
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Jamie May Smith (Hamilton County Jail)

Jamie May Smith (Hamilton County Jail)

A 44-year-old woman in Tennessee was arrested last weekend for allegedly stuffing the remains of a 30-year-old dead man into a barrel and leaving it at a motel, then explaining to police that she “just wanted the body out of her room.” Jamie May Smith, who also goes by the name Jamie Holland, was taken into custody on Saturday and charged with one count of abuse of a corpse and one count of possession of methamphetamine, records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

According to a report from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, officers with the Chattanooga Police Department on Saturday, June 3 responded to an anonymous tip stating that there was a dead body in a room on the second floor of a Motel 6 located in the 7700 block of Lee Highway.

Upon arriving at the scene, first responders were reportedly directed to two rooms next to each other on the second floor. In one of the rooms, officers reportedly located the body of a deceased male which had been stuffed into a metal barrel and covered with a blanket inside of room 216. The deceased was quickly identified as Jose Heredia Lopez. In the second room, officers reportedly found about 1.5 grams of methamphetamine.

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