A man living in Texas with his mom who has her cleaning his area, is now being charged with murder and is sitting in jail. 24-year-old Alex Akpan is being charged with killing 23-year-old Irene Yemitan.
He attempted to hide her remains inside of his bedroom, however, as his mother went to clean to clean his room, she discovered Yemitan’s remains inside of a green recycling bin.
Because the green bin was supposed to be placed outside in their yard, Akpan’s mother was wondering why it was inside of the home.
Once she opened the bin and looked at its contents, she quickly learned her son had did something very sick. A human foot stuck right out at her, and she screamed.
Authorities could not find any obvious sign of trauma, but from how her eyes looked, they think she was strangled to death. And after a thorough investigation and an autopsy, the coroner ruled the Yemitan’s cause of death was strangulation.
The day before she was murdered, Yemitan posted a YouTube video titled “Lite Updated?”
Akpan refused to give a statement to the police as they arrested him. Instead, he requested a lawyer. Initially, he was just charged with tampering with evidence of a human corpse and was released on $10,000 bond. Now he’s back in jail on murder charges.
Friends remember Yemitan as a fighter who kept moving forward despite relentless bullying in high school because of her skin color.
