article_snippet.sent: A former girlfriend testified a year ago that James Harris told A former girlfriend A former girlfriend shot Gerety in the stomach, tortured A former girlfriend for two days, then cut off A former girlfriend head.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutors allege James Harris kept Gerety's head for months for some type of religious practice, identified earlier as voodoo.
article_snippet.sent: Part of the skull was found in March 2012 in rural Osage County on land where James Harris father lived. '
article_snippet.sent: Bobbie Williams, James Harris former girlfriend, testified in court that the defendant told James Harris the defendant killed Tom Gerety using a guitar string, disposed of the body, but kept the head in a bag for the defendant.
article_snippet.sent: Another witness at a March 2014 preliminary hearing that he reported Gerety missing in April 2011 after he failed to pick up his payments, Topeka police Detective Brian Hill, said that during questioning after the defendant arrest, James Harris told the defendant that the defendant kept the victim's head in a canvas bag with a draw string.
article_snippet.sent: Detective Brian Hill testified that James Harris spoke to the victim's head, and had an active interest in voodoo and practiced an active interest in voodoo.
article_snippet.sent: According to James Harris former girlfriend, James Harris told Harris' former girlfriend that James Harris had shot the victim in the stomach and then tortured James Harris for two days at their Topeka house.
article_snippet.sent: After James Harris had finished with James Harris brutal treatment of Gerety, James Harris then decapitated James Harris with the string, according to Williams' testimony.
article_snippet.sent: Then, James Harris is said to have put Gerety's torso, arms and legs in a barrel and burried Gerety's torso, arms and legs on land owned by James Harris father, Jeff Harris in Osage County.
article_snippet.sent: Gerety's skull was recovered on March 24, 2012, at James Harris home by James Harris girlfriend, Shirley Johnson.
article_snippet.sent: his girlfriend, Shirley Johnson had been on the hunt for mushrooms when his girlfriend, Shirley Johnson found a ball barely buried and brought a ball inside to show James Harris father, who promptly called the police and his son was arrested.
highlights_snippet.sent: His ex-girlfriend testified last year that James Harris kept Gerety's severed head and spoke to Gerety's severed head after the slaying .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: His ex-girlfriend told James Harris James Harris admitted to shooting Gerety and torturing Gerety for two days before cutting Gerety's severed head off .
  