Gruesome details in Stone County murder unveiled

A grand jury will decide whether there is enough evidence to try Terrell Johnson in the decapitation death of his mother.

The 29-year-old was led into the Stone County Courthouse for his preliminary hearing today where disturbing details came out about the crime.

Captain Ray Boggs said Johnson confessed the morning after Sherry Johnson’s body was found. The defendant said they got into an argument over credit cards. Johnson said he tried to walk away, but the argument escalated into a fight.

He said he choked his mother until she stopped breathing. Then, he reportedly took a butter knife from a bedside table and used it, along with his teeth and hands, to take off her head.

His attorney, Jim Davis, indicated that Johnson has previously been hospitalized with health problems. Davis could be pursuing an insanity defense.