Justin Rey, 35, has been ordered to undergo a 90-day mental treatment by a Kansas judge. The father-of-two was discovered by police to be living in a U-Haul storage space with his two children and the remains of his dead wife
A homeless father-of-two who told police he dismembered his wife in a Missouri hotel room and then slept in a Kansas storage unit with her remains and their two children is headed to a mental hospital for treatment.
A Johnson County, Kansas judge on Thursday found Justin Rey not competent to stand trial and ordered the treatment.
The 35-year-old has been ordered to undergo a 90-day stay at Larned State Hospital, Fox4KC reports.
Rey is charged in Kansas and Missouri with child endangerment. He’s also charged with abandonment of a corpse in Missouri. He isn’t charged in the killing of his wife, 32-year-old Jessica Monteiro Rey.
He had been jailed on $1million bond in Kansas on the child endangerment charges.
Investigators say Rey took photographs of himself with his wife’s body before dismembering her in a Kansas City, Missouri hotel room and taking her remains to the U-Haul storage unit in Lenexa, Kansas.
He was living with their two children: a toddler and the newborn, inside the storage unit when they were found by police, authorities say.
Rey has told police that his wife, 32-year-old Jessica Monteiro Rey, died during childbirth and committed suicide. He said that he dismembered her body and kept her remains in a cooler and a tote bag
Body parts that would not fit in either the cooler or the tote bag were flushed down the toilet or boiled
Her remains were discovered inside a cooler and a tote bag on October 24.
What body parts wouldn’t fit in the tote and cooler were flushed down the toilet or boiled.
Officers had been called to check on the welfare of their two small children staying in the unit because it was emitting a foul odor.
Rey has alternately said she died during childbirth and that she killed herself.
He also said the baby was delivered in a hotel bathtub and that after his wife gave birth, he used a plastic fastener and a shoe string to secure their baby’s umbilical chord.
Rey told police that his wife committed suicide, shortly after giving birth to their newborn child on October 20 at this hotel where they had been staying for about a month
Rey admitted to dismembering his wife after she died. He checked out of the hotel on October 23, and spent the night at this storage facility
Rey told police he spent two days with the dead body of Jessica Rey before dismembering it.
He’s also charged in the death of a California man, Sean Ty Ferel, whose body hasn’t been found.
The Palm Springs, California, man disappeared in May 2016 after vacationing with Rey. Three months later, Rey crashed Ferel’s vehicle in Los Angeles.
Ferel’s body hasn’t been found, but his blood was in the trunk, and his belongings were found in an Arizona storage unit that Rey had rented.