US suicide jumper’s note leads to mutilated woman

A NOTE found on the body of a suicide jumper led police to a French Quarter apartment in New Orleans where they found a woman’s charred head in a pot, her arms and legs in the oven and her torso in the refrigerator, police have said.

Zackery Bowen, 28, leapt from the seventh floor of a luxury hotel in the Quarter on Tuesday, police said. His note, found in his pocket, identified the woman as his girlfriend but did not mention her name.

The body was found in the second-floor apartment that Bowen and his girlfriend, Adriane Hall, had shared on the edge of the Quarter above a voodoo shop, according to the landlord.

In the note, Bowen wrote: “I scared myself not by the action of calmly strangling the woman I’ve loved for one and a half years .... but by my entire lack of remorse,” according to The Times-Picayune newspaper.

Bowen wrote that he had $1,500 in cash and spent it lavishly before killing himself, the newspaper reported: “So that’s what I did: good food, good drugs, good strippers, good friends and any loose ends I may have had.”

Police spokesman Anthony Cannatella said the motive appeared to be a dispute over rent. Cannatella said the note indicated Bowen strangled the woman following an argument and cut up her body — using a hand saw and knife.